ON Tuesday, several PF MPs and senior members defied instructions from faction Secretary General Raphael Nakacinda and went ahead to hold a Tonse Council of Leaders meeting. Among those in attendance were Mpika Central MP Francis Kapyanga, Nakonde MP Lukas Simumba, Chama North MP Yotam Mtayachalo, former Mfuwe MP Maureen Mabonga, former PF secretary general Mumbi Phiri, Chanoda Ngwira, former president Edgar Lungu’s political adviser Chris Zumani Zimba, Kelvin Bwalya Fube, and Tonse Alliance spokesperson Sean Tembo. This meeting came only days after another one organised by Tembo was violently disrupted by PF cadres who claimed that “Tembo has no authority to call a Tonse meeting.” Tellingly, among those who had gathered for that interrupted meeting was Brian Mundubile, widely...