Former Eastern Province Patriotic Front (PF) Youth chairman Frederick Mwanza has said party secretary general Wynter Kabimba has managed to destroy the ruling party in the province when he attempted to use outspoken Lameck Mangani to lead the provincial team.
Mwanza said kabimba was warned that Mangani was a treacherous individual who had betrayed former president Rupiah Banda and the MMD, adding that Mangani should not have been embraced in the PF.
He said Kabimba was alerted that recruiting Mangani wouold not add any value to the PF because Mangani, the former Member of Parliament for Chipata Central was merely looking for opportunities to survive his political and economic life.
“The problem with Wynter Kabimba is that he is another opportunitst who tried to use Lameck Mangani to achieve his dubious work. Now he has been shown that Mangani is actually against him. Mangai is the one who was organizing youths and women to rise against the secretary general. Kabimba is just feeling bad because he has failed to use Mangani to rise to power,” he said.
Mwanza said the PF had an opportunity to penetrate into the eastern province, but all these chances had been squandered by Kabimba and Mangani who managed to plant a seed of division and hatred among the few ruling party members in the region.
He said Kabimba was using his position as secretary general to assert himself among the membership, instead of conducting proper party mobilization programmes.
“My words that we are not on the ground will come true during the by-elections in Vubwi, Petauke Central and Malambo constituencies. We are going to lose with a big margin because we are not united and in any case, no one wants to go and campaign,” he said.
Mwanza said the PF had an opportunity to re-organise itself and put in place an formidable and visionary leadership in eastern province now that kabimba had realized his mistakes.
Recently, Kabimba’s visit to the Chipata was characterized by confusion, in which hired, slogan chanting and drunk PF thugs disrupted Kabimba’s meetings when they called for his expulsion from the party.
It was later discovered that Lameck Mangani, Kabimba’s own right hand man in the province was behind the hired thugs. This forced Kabimba to suspend Mangani, who was the only member of the provincial executive committee who other members were earlier suspended by Kabimba for various offences.
Too much drama, intra-party fighting and, gossip and divisions have been at the centre of the ruling party in eastern province, and Mwanza attributes all the squabbles to Wynter Kabimba whom he said was using wrong methods to stir the party forward.
Mwanza said Kabimba must stop advancing his personal ambitions ahead of the party programmes because it was such tricks that were frustrating members.
“Kabimba has been coming here claiming to be representing the president. The president has sent me to do this and that. But between the lines, you can see that he is just representing himself and no one else,” he said.
Last week, Wynter Kabimba was on a tour of eastern province where he held various meetings with party members on a party mobilization programme. He also had meetings with the traditional leadership, including paramoun Chief Mpezeni.
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