THE Patriotic Front leadership says any of its alliance partners who hope to lead Tonse should leave their respective parties and become members of PF. Mr Given Lubinda and Mr Raphael Nakacinda have explained that only a PF member can be chosen as Tonse’s presidential candidate. While we are not privy to the terms and conditions of joining the Tonse Alliance, it does not take much to deduce that this stance from the Alliance’s dominant political party will rub some partners the wrong way, and tensions will soon begin to form, if they have not already started. The point of forming an alliance is to borrow from each other’s strength, while partners continue to maintain their unique identities. But this...