SATA Rejects Endorsements, Says Its Dictatorial ‘Those With Ambitions Should Challenge me, Its Democracy’

REPUBLICAN President Michael Chilufya Sata has rejected the ongoing endorsements as sole Presidential candidate for the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in the 2016 general elections.

And Sata has challenged PF officials interested in challenging him to come out in the open.

Speaking before a joint Cabinet and PF Central committee meeting at State house this morning, Sata said anyone in the Patriotic Front is free to aspire for the presidency.

Sata has since challenged PF senior officials harbouring presidential ambitions to declare their intentions rather than attacking each other in the public.

Mr Sata has also cautioned Cabinet Ministers not to keep quite but respond to all allegations from the opposition political parties against government.

President Sata expressed disappointed that Cabinet Ministers have been quiet despite all the noise coming from the opposition.

He has however said PF members will have to propose his name ahead of that convention and that no one must be stopped from having presidential ambitions.

The President has however urged party members that they must not be afraid to come out in the open to declare interest because the Patriotic Front is a democratic Party.