VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango has cautioned the opposition against using former president Edgar Lungu’s name in their political campaigns, saying doing so evokes the wrong emotions in people. Speaking during the Vice-President’s Question Time in Parliament, Friday, Vice-President Nalumango said it was disrespectful and culturally inappropriate to use the name of a deceased leader for political mileage. Her remarks followed a question from Mongu Central MP Oliver Amutike, who wondered why the opposition had seemingly adopted a strategy of invoking the legacy of the late president. “Very little advice to the opposition, being Zambians, we never use a dead man or a dead person to campaign because immediately you bring in that, it’s chiwa (a ghost), you don’t use and talk...

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