MMD Confirms PF Alliance Prospect
MMD president Nevers Mumba has confirmed he has been communicating with President Lungu to explore possibilities of working with the Patriotic Front (PF) ahead of the August 11 tripartite elections.
And the Zambia Republican Party (ZRP) says it is ready to enter into an alliance with the PF.
Dr Mumba said in an interview yesterday that he is consulting his party structures before he can come in the open over President Lungu’s offer for MMD to work with PF.
“I can confirm that there has been some communication between myself and President Lungu on the possibility of us working together during the coming election. I am also studying this offer,” Dr Mumba said.
Dr Mumba said that he will shortly respond to President Lungu’s offer because he feels it is important to hold consultations within his party before coming out with a response.
He said that he is currently in Western Province where he is organising and mobilising his party ahead of the general elections.
Speaking in Nyimba on Sunday, President Lungu said PF would not have won in last year’s elections if it had not worked with MMD.
He also that said when parliament is dissolved, PF and MMD would sit down and decide how they would work together.
And the ZRP says that President Lungu’s call to work with the MMD in the August 11 tripartite elections is timely.
ZRP president Wright Musoma said the offer by the PF to again work with the MMD in order to outrightly win in the elections should be encouraged.
“This is the right thing to do. President Lungu’s offer to the MMD is a plus and should not be underrated by any well-meaning Zambian,” he said.
In an interview yesterday, Mr Musoma urged the MMD to take the offer seriously and respond to the President while at the same time reduce on their intra-party differences.
Mr Musoma contends that with the 50-percent-plus-one vote clause in the amended constitution, no political party would have an outright win in the forthcoming general elections without forming an alliance with other parties.
He said it will be wishful for any political party to think that they do not need an alliance in the August 11 elections.
Mr Musoma said ZRP is ready to join the alliance that President Lungu is proposing with the MMD.
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peters
January 28, 2016 at 4:24 am
Thankyou lungu for giving life to MMD. This is a killer punch for this trible party UPND. This year HH is going to be burried and never to rise. In August it will be ash to ash.
hunter
January 28, 2016 at 5:05 am
Sesheke UPND on line…..so of all opposition politicaL parties,UPND gives you fools SLEEPLESS nights ????? Our living almighty GOD,pls bless UPND and its leadership each and every day to ASHAME the DEVIL
one bravo records
January 28, 2016 at 5:47 am
Its not MMD who are going to vote but the pipo of zambia in particularly so let’s vote wisely for better change let’s not be influenced by pipo its your right to choose who vote for as for me HH you have my votes
kayula
January 28, 2016 at 6:05 am
Nemwe who is HH? What asurance do you have to show that HH can do better than Lungu. What can you admire from HH who has failed to control his relatives in choma? what can you admire from HH’s record in selling our companies? If it is money then lets vote for the richest zambian. look at the behaviour of Dangote and be wise.
kalebwe
January 28, 2016 at 6:11 am
HH is just good for checks and balance not for presidency. Mumba pliz give way to Mutati to be lungu’s running mate. lungu needs a critical thinker like Mutati.
Mwansa Kabengele
January 28, 2016 at 6:20 am
M M D is a dead party and it’s leader is a job seeker. This alliance will not yield much. Mind you, MMD failed to secure victory for themselves when they were in power. How do you seek help from a party whose membership is dwindling? UPND is in an alliance with the electorate. The economic hardships that the PF has thrown Zambia into are enough cause for the people of the Zambia ,especially copperbelt, to give them a NO
Vote .
Will MMD employ the fired Miners? We, on the copperbelt, are bitter . We are surely not listening to their “global reasoning”, you will see what will happen come August 11.
Coming to Pastor Nevers Mumba, this will be the second time he will surrender his party to the party in power in exchange for meals. Where is the Zambia Christian Coalition? This time if the PF does not win , that will spell the end of Nevers Mumba. If PF wins , a way will be found through parliament to kick Nevers Mumba . That will mean end of Nevers. The best for him is to remain in the opposition
High Transmiter!
January 28, 2016 at 6:38 am
with or without alliance with the M M D . PF KUYA BEBELE! MM D IS A FINISHED PARTY ! LOOK AT LAST YEAR ‘S ELECTIONS THEY COME OUT THIRD
Sanny
January 28, 2016 at 7:27 am
MMD was kicked out of power because they had become too corrupt and PF had become a darling to the people, now they are thinking of reuniting and they think people are too dumb to vote for two parties that brought so much misery to Zambians. You will be in for a rude shock for taking voters for advantage
topten
January 28, 2016 at 7:37 am
@Hunter, Its good you are looking to God Almighty to help UPND win the election, But kindly check the internet/google/masonists, for the Religiours afiliation of your good leader, I say this because his belonging to this organisation doe s not go well with most of the Zambian Christian Voters. Sorry He is perceived to belong to a group of satanists,THOUGH thats not my opinion of him. God Bless Zambia as we go to the polls.
phillip sika
January 28, 2016 at 7:39 am
Dr go ahead,Upnd they have bin in alliance with FDD,it failed,again with PF,it failed,what is wrong this party,to me that simply means selfishness on their part,greediness,do u think they will share the national cake equally? watch.
topten
January 28, 2016 at 7:39 am
@Kayula, good coment bro.
mj banda
January 28, 2016 at 7:49 am
Missed opportunity for upnd, they should have rushed to be with mmd but due to selfish desires by HH, he has missed and will cry again. This HH doesn’t allow such cos he knows t he only wants a Tonga guy as running mate as per the quota.
Petaukean
January 28, 2016 at 7:57 am
Mutati is the best option to work wth Edgar than Nevers! though Mutati is believed 2b royal to HH
stanslous sakwimba
January 28, 2016 at 8:04 am
The patriotic front claims to be very popular in the country and yet they are fighting for alliances with some opposition parties, if we take the last by-elections we hard the PF was working with MMD, if it Wass not for them (mmd), UPND would have taken the day as all well meaning Zambia knows that UPND hard won the elections.this time is different from what happened last year and let me assure you that these alliances won’t work out this year come 11th AUGUST 2016.
Viva HH and UPND
Radical Christian
January 28, 2016 at 8:20 am
I am delighted to see Dr Nevers Mumba willingness to make an alliance with PF.Truely alone it is a wishful hallucination that a single party wins outrightly by 50 + 1 on august 11,2016 polls.
As i always say, in Politics there are no permanent enemies but there are Permanent interests.
God bless you brother Nevers Mumba for that well meaning gesture to make an alliance between PF and MMD.
LBF
January 28, 2016 at 8:32 am
Its unfortunate that Mr Mumba is power angry so he accept anything that seems to be closer to power needed tats why his part was divided because he has no vision for the part except his selfish desire i even wonder if at all the rest of the party members were even consulted.But mulya Lesa abela Mumba will never get it.Pliz just go back to the puperty.
Kwifulaminwe Kabunke
January 28, 2016 at 8:35 am
But can you imagine Dr. Mumba working with HH. Though they are both in politics, they opposite sides of the same coin
muchy
January 28, 2016 at 8:51 am
In 2011 PF managed to remove MMD from power after being brutalized for 10 solid years being in opposition. Five(5) years down the line they want to form an alliance, what a fool to the Zambian people going back to their own vomits.
#LunguMustFall
January 28, 2016 at 8:54 am
I used to think that Mutati is a criticle thinker too but of late he comes out to me as a douche
LBF
January 28, 2016 at 8:59 am
Tata Mumba takwata sana amano Abarsh Mumba Abarsh
bamunta
January 28, 2016 at 9:09 am
yayaa..! its only a foolish child dat insult its mother wen it fels it has grwn,wen it has bn faced wit prblms de first resort is to seek its mother’s help.naimwe ba mumba mwisumen ibukiisheni how de harras u. i was der wen u got arrestd n lundazi lekeni achule mambala asainine eka ibuku.
PanAfricanist
January 28, 2016 at 9:11 am
Lets me be the first to welcome MMD officially to the winning PF Team. I encourage other small parties such as Upnd, DF etc to jump on the PF-MMD bandwagon before the train leaves the station.
Mumba has lots to offer for this christian country. And the best way is to work with PF.
bamuntu
January 28, 2016 at 9:22 am
breakn news.dis morning at 10hrs hh wil b hldng a close door meetng with his coursen mulyokela to tok of forming an alliance.
pakaya
January 28, 2016 at 9:35 am
Who is not working with PF? politics is about winning. If HH can work with GBM and the whole Tonga land is dancing eho are we not to work with might MMD. For your information MMD worked with PF in Winning Jnuary election. Go for angels like GBM and
twaibila
January 28, 2016 at 9:40 am
it is my first to see the ruling party begging the opposition to form an alliance. this tells that pf is useless. edgat,kambwili and the rest in pf were saying will win election by 70% but after going round the country they have seen the true picture.
chama went to nw province and he was shocked from their his been quiet. to nerves mumba if you’re a dog go and eat your vomit
mailon
January 28, 2016 at 10:34 am
Peters
We rejected MMD coz of its corruption.Now PF has decided to work with MMD and you applaud the decision?PF has brought hunger right into our homes and you think they will win whilst working with rejects?
Serenje Kalindula
January 28, 2016 at 10:54 am
Note: Nervous got 14,609 in the last elections.
pa zambia.
January 28, 2016 at 11:13 am
People voted MMD out because of what exactly happening in so called died pf. The real PF people knew ended after the death of Mr Sata, MHSRIP. Not Lungu’s pf. People be alet let’s vote wisely in August. People wanted change of which they decided to eliminate mmd and fuse in pf. Bring back mmd again. Lets vote HH we give him 5 years we see how he will work.
ps
January 28, 2016 at 11:15 am
going back to yo vomited corrupt pipo. ati pf kanshi ni mmd eating pf. wen pilato said it u insulted and arrested him. lungu is empty and he is trying to borrow a useless vision of corruption from mmd.
AMASHOKO KOPALA
January 28, 2016 at 11:41 am
ZAMBIANS MMD IS BACK THROW PF LUNGU NO SENCE MMD FUTI ZED IS MOVING BACK WARDS ….BE WISE
prof.GS
January 28, 2016 at 12:21 pm
This alliance will take PF no where.UPND will win.HH will get 70% lsk,65% CB,85% CP,100% NW,90% WP,95% SP,60% EP,40% MP,65% NP & 45% LP.Viva HH.Zambia forward.
mj banda
January 28, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Iwe prof fimofimo hh can’t get 60% in sp, remember hh is a tribalist
mostest
January 28, 2016 at 12:46 pm
MMD is a dead party why ba PF mwalababelesha akabwelela inuma kalalya so they just come to destroy your party that is why HH will be next president.
Mwima
January 28, 2016 at 1:31 pm
We are burying PF this year as MMD gets a second burial!
The truth pains
January 28, 2016 at 1:35 pm
What an embarrassing gesture from both PF and MMD!!!! Hey!! Even if it means politics is about numbers, this is catastrophe in its extremity!! Failure to reason indeed for a ruling party!! It’s clear this decision was made without consulting as usual!!!!
sichis
January 28, 2016 at 1:37 pm
upnd is tribal party which shall nerver rule this country by a vote becouse putting hh in power and tribals men is like giving this country in the
hands an enemy
Ken
January 28, 2016 at 1:54 pm
Imwe Mutati is not a critical thinker! Mutati was in an alliance with HH last elections and we cannot forget. Remember when they were beaten out of Muchinga, he ran away like a cat. His speech does not attract any audience, he too flat. We need Nevers Mumba in the Alliance.
Although I still feel bad at how he behaved against my President Sata, but yes truly “there is no permanent enermy”.
HH is still our enermy no. 1 because he is
1. A Masonist. Satanist
2. Became rich from the misfortunes of the Miners who are still facing the same effects. Coppebelt will never be like it was before this Kacheme new that place.
3. Kachema though CB was Bembaland that is why he dismantled its wealth.
Hidden Objects
January 28, 2016 at 2:30 pm
Some people are failing to sleep and rest over HH why,? The more you talk about him the more you are blessing him. UPND is not the only opposition party to talk about bane. This clearly shows that you fear HH.
gondolo
January 28, 2016 at 2:43 pm
God at work in Zambia.Peace be with us all
Hidden Objects
January 28, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Ba Mumba wesu, you have become a disappoint even to us who follow you as christians. Surely ba Pastor mwasumina ukuba corrupted just because you want money, how is God going to look at you? You are throwing away all the blessings that God had given you. Ba PF just wants to use you. What did they give you last time when you helped them? They just want to use you as a horse for war. Shame.
mwansa mbulakulima
January 28, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Please, l need some good answers. is it true that HH is a product of an uncle and his niece before you useless people invite curses into this country?
Nerdus Mumpa.
January 28, 2016 at 3:35 pm
Insala yachilamo yama.
Teti tupembele twenty katwishi uko to be in power. Life is too short.
Pamaka limbi kuti bakupako ka lupiya kamano. Naifwe tulyeko mwa Lungu kwati ba Lupiya. Naifwe twineko.
Nisebana wikute.
Problem yakwa hh, no corruption.
How can we become rich like him when he cannot allow corruption?
IF NOT
January 28, 2016 at 3:37 pm
An Alliance is a good move for PF and MMD, the move is welcome. The bottomline is HH will never win any election.
Jeff Kapembwa
January 28, 2016 at 3:51 pm
Boring
endless end
January 28, 2016 at 3:57 pm
Ba mumba have u being charmed?
Listening
January 28, 2016 at 5:16 pm
Pastor Mumba is only ONE person, he doesn’t know the feelings of the other MMD members and he has very few followers. He will remain alone. wait for the dessolution of parliament and see what will happen….ndelandafye
SELAKOTUBOMBEKO
January 28, 2016 at 6:36 pm
Nevers has no vision to this country,to him is to get rich wth pf and has forgotten what mmd did him wth his part ZCC.
kakolwe
January 28, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Why are we back to these useless opinion polls as at last election time? Well, if makes your itch in the bolz stop, take this: HH will get 100% vote in all provinces and the rest will get 0%.
But Lungu will be president. It is a tough world! Deal with it. With your blotted egos dipped in superiority complexes? Ataseeee!
Which normal Zambia can think it normal to gift a thieving satanist with the presidency?
Fantasy
January 28, 2016 at 7:22 pm
Nevers as Running mate or else how else are they going to be partners. And by the way, we were better off in MMD? And ECL answered Yes
mj banda
January 28, 2016 at 7:37 pm
People will hang themselves once the president dissolves parliament and no one defects to the opposition.