GIVEN Lubinda says President Hichilema’s Political Advisor Levy Ngoma is exaggerating UPND’s popularity, arguing that the ruling party’s unopposed victories in last week’s by-elections do not reflect the people’s will. Lubinda says popularity can only be measured when candidates compete in an election, not when one candidate is declared winner after others have withdrawn from the race. On Monday, Ngoma said the UPND’s “clean sweep” of last week’s by-elections demonstrated that the ruling party had become a national party. The UPND won all 14 seats in the by-elections, with eight of its candidates winning unopposed after other candidates withdrew from the races. Commenting on the matter in an interview, Lubinda argued that the contests in which UPND candidates went unopposed...