GILBERT Liswaniso, the National Youth Chairperson for UPND says his party aims to win all the 226 parliamentary seats in the August election, and that such a target is possible. Well, we understand that political parties must aim high. Ambition is part of politics. Confidence is part of mobilisation. But there is a point at which ambition stops looking like confidence and starts sounding like unresearched overzealousness. This is one such moment. Let us start from the obvious. There is no realistic way the UPND can win all the parliamentary seats in this country. If that is truly their goal, then the failure of that mission is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise. Zambia is not a one-opinion country. It is...

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