Patriotic Front (PF) deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has asked party deputy media director Antonio Mwanza to stop talking about the opposition UPND and its President Hakainde Hichilema each time he appears on radio.

Speaking when she called Radio phoenix where Mwanza had featured for the “Let the People Talk” programme yesterday, Phiri said it was a waste of time to talk about the UPND and its leader on any media programme because HH was the easiest competitor ever to defeat.

In his discussion earlier on the programme, Mwanza taunted the UPND and its leader on various issues ranging from the party’s failure to ever accept results of any election, to criticising them on the party vice president Geoffrey Mwamba’s pronouncement that Zambians should vote for UPND because its officials were rich.

“I want to go after the UPND leader who was saying that the PF was buying voters in Chilanga by offering them promises that once elected into office their children will go to school for free because the PF will be paying for them. I think the UPND must be sincere, first of all, this claim that UPND has that those who don’t agree with them or those that vote against them are either illiterates, they are poor people and that they are unenlightened… that notion must come to an ended. UPND believes that they are this elitists who are above everybody else and once you don’t agree with UPND then you are illiterate. If you don’t agree with UPND, you are a poor novice from Kalingalinga township [in Lusaka]. But that is an insult on the intelligence of a Zambian voter, it is an insult to believe that if people don’t agree with you then they are less worthy than you. UPND believe that they are special ones, they believe that Zambians owe them the Presidency and that if they come in all our problems will go because they are he most educated and they are the richest,” Mwanza said.

“You’ve heard the UPND vice-president Mr Goffrey Bwalya Mwamba saying ‘vote for us because we are rich’. But if they are rich then why are they not using there money to buy off Zambians if the Zambian people can be bought? Why are they not using the riches to buy the voters? I was in UPND in 2006 and I can tell you that the only qualification that made Mr Hichilema become President at the UPND convention were two, that ones he was Tonga and two that he was rich. But you cannot use riches as a qualification for leadership. And they must be able to understand that being rich and being educated does not equate to leadership. Leadership is a gift that you must learn.”