Patrotic Front (PF) Southern Province deputy information and publicity secretary Brighton Luhyila has said the province has become a no-go area for party secretary general Wynter Kabimba and his political schemes.
Luhyila’s sentiments come in the wake of infighting that has characterized the PF following the debate on President Sata’s endorsement as the party’s candidate during the 2016 elections.
Speaking from Livingstone, Luhyila said Kabimba was a traitor who was plotting a palace coup d’état on President Michael Sata because he was working with Post newspaper owner Fred M’membe to take over from the president.
Luhyila said kabimba’s failure to state his position on the current tide of endorsements for Sata to stand as the sole presidential candidate during the 2016 general elections.
“Our party secretary general Wynter Kabimba has been a disappointment because he has refused to support President Sata. We are aware of his plans because he thinks he can be President. However, we want to tell him that Southern has become a no-go area for him and all the structures have been told not to welcme him and to attend his meetings. He should come here at his own peril. We cannot tolerate this anymore,” he said.
Before the interview, Luhyila led scores of placard carrying PF members along Mos-oa-Tunya road to show solidarity for Sata’s candidature in 2016.
Luhyla said Kabimba was overrating his popularity when he had never won an election because even the position holds now was given to him by Sata.
He said Sata was clearly the PF’s candidate in 2016 because he was eligible under the party and republican constitutions.
He said all the PF members in Southern province were in support of Sata’s candidature and this must snk in Kabimba’s head.
“Those who have been given the mandate to serve in Government should have the respect of the appointing authority and this is President Sata,” he said.
Kahyila said Kabimba and his supporters should resign from the PF and form their own political party if he thought he was a political heavy weight.
He said Kabimba was promoting nepotism, tribalism, favouritism, greed and avarice within the PF, a thing, which the PF Southern province members would not tolerate.
“In the PF there is no room for selfishness, nepotism, favoritism and tribalism and we cannot allow this to continue,” he said.
Luhyila said most party officials such as Kabimba were not popular even within the party but were riding on Sata’s own dwindling popularity.
He said Zambians were not interested in Kabimba’s underhand methods of trying to get to the helm of the PF.
Factions have emerged in the ruling party where some members being led by Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba are endorsing Sata to contest the 2016 elections while the other, which is allegedly being sponsored by Kabimba is opposing the move.
The factions openly clashed at the weekend at Lusaka’s Northmead High school where some individuals were assaulted and property damaged.
The police have opened dockets for the for the illegality.
The PF secretary general Wynter Kabimba was not picking up his phone by press time.
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