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MMD-UPND Meet To Discuss Way Forward
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema says the UPND/MMD working group would soon reach consensus on which party will contest the Mufumbwe Constituency by-election as opposed to people suggesting that discussions between the two parties have stalled.
Mr. Hichilema said that speculations going on that the two parties had failed to reach consensus on who should contest the seat were incorrect and uncalled for.
He said both MMD and UPND were determined and committed to working together in order to strengthen unity and the opposition ahead of the by-election.
Mr. Hichilema said that no official communication had been issued to state which party would contest the seat as discussions were still going on.
“We have a small team that we have out in place to look at that issue and it is our hope that soon the people of Mufumbwe will be availed with a candidate who will fully be supported by both parties,” he said.
Mr. Hichilema described the attempts to divide the opposition over the Mufumbwe seat by the PF as baseless and uncalled for.
And Mr. Hichilema has confirmed that both the MMD and the UPND had a caucus meeting over President Michael Sata’s speech in parliament last week on Friday.
“Yes I can confirm that our Members of Parliament had a meeting with their colleagues from the MMD at the (MMD) secretariat where they discussed among other things the speech by Mr. Sata in Parliament last week.
That speech was hollow and lacks Presidential etiquette. There is nothing our Members will debate and we asked them as a party to meet and see which direction they should take when it comes to debating the speech,” he said.
Mr. Hichilema said that President Sata had missed another chance to inspire the people of Zambia by giving governments policy on poverty reduction, “unemployment, education and health as well as road infrastructure development. The President failed to give direction on how Zambia will run in the next one years.”
The Members of Parliament who attended the meeting said that President Sata’s written speech to parliament was diluted with the verbatim speech he made to the National Assembly last week and that would not endorse that.
“We have resolved that we shall not support and debate the speech because there is nothing to debate. It is full of insults, drama and uncoordinated and contradicting activities. Our people did not vote for us here to sweep such issues under the carpet and we shall make out position known in parliament today,” an MMD MP said.
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PIKE
September 28, 2012 at 8:45 am
MMD you find it difficult to work with AISHA(HH)Hakaiteka Humwine. look at the two by- elections that has passed did he mention the working group? But today it is working in favour of him that is why he is insisting of the working group.Pure bantustan.
Zambian
September 28, 2012 at 9:01 am
viva HH… Zambia’s only hope. Viva Kaingu for tearing that trush….ABASH UPND MP for siding with PF bootlickers..One zambia Many NATIONS
baba
September 28, 2012 at 9:40 am
careful opposition, your opponents delight seeing you quarelling. divide and rule as usual
mwaba mwinji
September 28, 2012 at 9:55 am
IT SEEMS HH IS A THERAT TO THE RULING PF.HH GO HH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
PATIENT
September 28, 2012 at 10:00 am
Ala MCS has already inspired us; that is why we voted him at President. So ba HH, stop ranting, you are not the best person to say that. All that comes out of your cowdung mouth is stinky talk.
CALLED WISE
September 28, 2012 at 10:51 am
RULING PARTY ILI MU CHIBE KANSI.
IT SIMZ DA OPOSITION PARTIES R THERE NOT 2 ADVISE,SAPOT O HELP DA GVMENT 2 BETA PIPO’S LIVES BUT 2 CRUSH IT DOWN.EVRY1 IS EAGER 2 RULE US.
Mpangula Mputyu
September 28, 2012 at 11:13 am
Ya ya ya ya… Masumba the forgerer must fall. Then jail awaits HIM.
taliban
September 28, 2012 at 11:16 am
way to go HH..these pathetic failures..the liars should not distract us..hahahaha..
Prof; Zick
September 28, 2012 at 11:27 am
Let us see if MMD will stand in Mfumbwe.Nothing to talk about the MMD are the ones to stand for that sit,what wrong with HH.when it come to HH he wants to first talk,greed HH
isaac
September 28, 2012 at 11:30 am
Where will Hakainde take you to. You think you have briliant ideas which when you try to sell to the zambian pipo they always reject it. The truth will remain the same come 2016 he will again and again be vanguished with alot of scars
Prof; Zick
September 28, 2012 at 11:35 am
HH is nothing in Zambia but something in southern,how would u become president if u can’t campaign in other areas Northern,CB,Luapula and Muchinga provinces are the major president makers,sharing votes in other provinces make it even waste,tell HH to be going in the above mentioned areas than coming to Livingstone as the only way he can become president
moonga
September 28, 2012 at 12:21 pm
OH !
HOMO HABILIER (HH) is simply a disjointed fellow .
Car colour takatekepo zambia!!!!
Mwanarob
September 28, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Poor HH. I always laugh at how much HH is called and criticized. Some of the names names he is being called are honestly unpalatable. All in all, if you look at his (HH) critics, it is the same rhetoric, southern province, under five, tonga, etc. I have yet to find a critic that seriously criticizes the man on facts and clear intelligence. It is just the kaponya story of you, this, you that nonsense. In the meantime, viva HH. Keep on with the good works. The way things are going, 2016 is yours.
JJ
September 28, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Wait and c UPND can never work with any political party coz the altimate goal is HH to lead any alliance that it will go into. Am an armatuer n politics but i read the mode. MMD is working with UPND now but lets close up to 2016 and u will prove it especially that the MMD presidential candidate is Bemba.That work group will collapse lets support gentlemen like Chipimo Jnr for the future.
xxx
September 28, 2012 at 2:19 pm
@zambian you are a serious fool supporting an ***** like HH,who will never be President of this country
COMA
September 28, 2012 at 3:05 pm
@JJ,THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR MMD A PARTY THAT RULED ZAMBIA FOR THE PASSED 20YEARS AND LOST ELECTIONS LAST YEAR,TO BOUNCE BACK IN 2016.WE NEED TO GIVE CHANCE TO OUR FRIENDS IN UPND,TO RULE AND PROVE THEIR HAKAI-ECONOMIC STRATERGIES WHICH MIGHT BE DIFFERENT FROM UKWA-ECONOMICS AND CHILUBAISM OF MMD.VIVA HH, VIVA UPND.LET US BE FAIR TO THIS COUNTRY,RECYCLED POLITICIANS SINCE COLONIAL TIME SURE?
Musole Sachipango
September 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm
The current first draft constitution has a clause that aims at reducing tax payers moneys through uncalled for by-elections. A candidate who got second position in a previous election would be appointed to take over each time a vacancy occured. It will be great and a great lesson to many if Masumba loses this election.
george
September 28, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Great speech HE Mr Michael Chilufya Sata SC. u r my President. meet to discuss way forward or way to destroying each other completely. tukamwenako nipano tuli.
Kenneth Kaunda Mbewa Mayuka
September 28, 2012 at 7:13 pm
mwaba mwinji wat can a liar nd selfish individual do 4 dis country kanshi iwe chitechi? which people has he helped with ze money he has? look at TB Joshua en wat he is doing for the people even if he has no political ambitions. If u think zats ze way to chew HHs money baba mwagwila pansi!
Kenneth Kaunda Mbewa Mayuka
September 28, 2012 at 7:22 pm
surely does MMD think HH would easily allow dem to show supremacy even if their numbers r higher than theirs? MMD better think twice about this marriage or else you will leave to regret it for life.
Abakonzi
September 29, 2012 at 6:35 am
UPND & MMD imwe guys you’re just wasting your time ifyama Pact tafibomba in zambia.Sata has proved that a single party can win an election so just go and do your campaigns.Let’s be realistic here Nervous and HH come guys wake up and smell the coffee,these 2 can’t mix.Ngamuletalika lwenu meanwhile Sata has slowly started to settle down as president by 2016 he’ll be undefeatable
Dante Sounders
September 29, 2012 at 7:22 am
everyday there is one name that is always on the lips of PF cadres and PF officials, the name HH. they cannot stop mentioning his name because they are feeling the fire. this is what happens when a government fails, the PF have now run out of excuses and all they talk about is HH. five years will soon be up and PF would have spent it talking About HH instead of development. then this dull, useless, idiotic government will be kicked out nicely
Laka
September 29, 2012 at 7:23 am
Ba nevers ninshi imwe teti mutungulule fye pa lwenu?y do u nid UPND thats y na party yenu mwaliibutwike.mukamona efyo aka michita HH.mulsambilila,mwikawisha MMD further.
Mangani
September 29, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Threats, insults and violence against our party president by PF are too much. It is getting out of hand and needs urgent intervention. Mr. Hichilema is not the only person to have lost an election, but he has been considered as a bitter man by PF and its cadres. Mr. Hichilema was summoned by the police, to show solidarity, cadres escorted him to police as his cadres; they were tear gassed and beaten by the police. MUVI TV reported Police vehicles carrying PF cadres with all sorts of weapons to attack UPND and its president in Kanyama, but they were not arrested. The post news paper reports that PF cadres came to attack Hichilema at the cathedral of the holy cross during Mama Betty’s funeral. It further reported that a uniformed police officer whispered to Hakainde about the violent PF cadres, but the same police did nothing to the violent cadres. PF has nothing to accuse HH of, they only have simple terms like bitter, under five, they want to put their tribalism tag on HH
As zambian youth, we are requesting the government through the IG of police to take control of the PF cadres, we are not happy. HH is the only true leader of this generation without kaponya behaviour
Jube
September 29, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Dr Kaingu is my new role model. In fact, he should have urinated on that trush.
There is no way Sata can yap a different speech and let the members debate the one he should have delivered in the house. In paliament, you debate on what the president said and not what he should have said.
commando
September 29, 2012 at 3:40 pm
@mangani
Boma ni Boma kaa!!! Careful u useless chap.
MK
September 30, 2012 at 2:25 am
Useless opposition, point out the main weakness of the speech and explain it to the general population of the country. Unemployment should not be used as a weapon by the opposition, MMD should shoulder the blame and UPND should not pretend as if they did not about the unemployment levels in the country. They had a share of K300 billion during the failed constitution making process, imagine what those billions could do if they were invested in CBU or UNZA. These loose coalitions are having a negative effect on multi-party democracy in this country, instead of parties evolving we are been presented with a a fake front which cannot govern as a coalition government, this is wrong! If they want to work together they should join as one party.
Francis Mwansa
September 30, 2012 at 2:41 pm
MMD u can’t work with Tongas under oath……
mupondo wa sata
September 30, 2012 at 4:57 pm
hh nyamapolo cant work with anyone.