Lungu:PF Members Should Respect Scott Because He Was Appointed By SATA

Edgar Lungu says PF members should respect Vice-President Guy Scott because he was appointed by the President.

Commenting on the plot by some ‘disgruntled’ party members to hound Vice-President Scott out of the PF, Lungu, who is acting president and party secretary general, said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the Vice-President should be respected as an appointee of the President.

“I don’t want to even talk about this subject anymore, my brother. Those who know the kind of party [PF is] know that we respect hierarchy. We respect our seniors,” said Lungu, who is also justice and defence minister.

“Secondly, and most important, the President is elected and if the President puts somebody in office, out of respect for the President, we should respect that person. Whether we like him or not, that’s the culture of PF.”

Lungu said he did not know the source of calls for the removal of Vice-President Scott’s from the PF.

“I don’t even know where the calls are coming from because I don’t even know who is making those calls. I just hear that there are these calls, but I cannot even talk about them anymore because no one has even come out in the open,” Lungu said.

“Dr Scott should actually tell me those advocating his removal so that we can follow them up and talk to them to see how we can put them in line.”

Last Thursday, Vice-President Scott disclosed that there was a plot to oust him.
He told journalists at his Parliament office that some PF cadres had been mobilised to demonstrate against him in the manner they used to be set on former justice minister Wynter Kabimba, but changed their plans at the last minute after the police got wind of it.

“There was supposed to have been some demonstration in which some youths wanted to say stuff against me. The whole thing is nonsense. People are trying to use frustrated youths without jobs. There is an attempt to subvert my position. I have a good idea of the people I suspect to be behind this plot, but I don’t want to bring out their names for now,” said Vice-President Scott.

Posted by Kunda on September 28, 2014. Filed under POLITICS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry