PF’s Emmanuel Mpankata has confirmed that seven provincial chairpersons of the party have decided to boycott meetings with any presidential candidates. Mpankata, who was dropped from the Central Committee by Given Lubinda, a decision he rejected, says the seven provincial chairpersons have done so in political solidarity, supporting the two suspended provincial chairmen for Northern and Lusaka Provinces. Recently, a statement was circulating on social media, in which seven provincial chairpersons indicated their decision to boycott meetings with any presidential candidates. The provincial chairpersons in question include those from the Copperbelt, Central, Luapula, Eastern, Muchinga, North-Western, Western and Southern Provinces. They have formally written to Lubinda to respond to their grievances over the repeatedly postponed elective conference and the removal...