MILES GOES FOR LUBINDA

IN what has become a harbinger of political gibberish, accusations and counter-accusations in the Patriotic Front (PF), presidential aspirant Miles Sampa has now branded acting party president Given Lubinda a masquerade who had held the party hostage for two years.

Reacting to Mr. Lubinda’s statement that Mr. Sampa was miles away from destroying the PF, Mr. Sampa said he was not bothered by such sentiments because they came from a man who plunged the party to unprecedented defeat for any ruling party in Zambia in the last election when he was campaign manager for the PF presidential candidate, Edgar Lungu.

“So says a man who was the PF presidential ticket campaign manager for the 2021 general elections when the same PF lost power by close to 1 million votes. Unprecedented for a ruling party in Zambia or Africa to lose by such a margin. So says the man who has held the PF hostage the last two years masquerading as the acting president when the PF constitution has no such position.

“So says a man under whose advertisement directive, I amongst others, paid to his controlled PF account K200,000 ($10,000) for party presidential elections that have not taken place close to two years now; says a man whose illegal reign at the top has led to massive defections to other political parties of key members of the PF namely Paul Moonga, Antonia Mwanza, Father Bwalya, Kelvin Kaunda, Geofrey Lungwangwa etc,” Mr. Sampa said. 

Mr. Sampa accused Mr. Lubinda of not producing party financial statements, keeping the income and expenditure sheets a secret and also facing contempt of court for his illegal reign.

“So says a man that has not produced financial statements for the party and all income and expenditures are a secret, says a man who is facing a contempt of court case under High Court Judge Katenekwa for defying the injunction restraining him and (Raphael) Nakacinda from stopping me enjoying my party rights or defaming me until case is disposed of. Also continues to make illegal appointments despite the restraining order not to perform those duties.

“A man who risks a bench warrant and the same as he misled Hon Nixon Chilangwa on conduct over matters in court and might end up the same direction. So says a man that the PF founder Michael Sata (MHRSIEP) once called treacherous and fired him as Foreign Affairs Minister and was about to expel him out of his party PF and (it) was me, amongst others, that begged Sata to rescind the decision,” he said.

Mr. Sampa continued; “So says a man who was found with a corruption case to answer two days ago involving thousands of US dollars when he was Agriculture or Justice Minister and should have resigned yesterday from his illegal position in PF so as not to put the name of the PF in disrepute. So says a man the grassroots of PF accuse of being selfish and stingy despite all the benefits PF gave him as minister.

He wondered who was miles away from reality between him and Mr. Lubinda whom he said he beat with huge votes by far in the 2014 extra ordinary general conference in Kabwe to replace Mr. Sata after he died.

“So says a man who, since being imposed on the illegal position as acting president of PF, has only found it fit to suspend one out of 10 presidential candidates and one out of millions of members of the PF and on both fronts his name is Miles Sampa. He has not found it fit to discipline anyone else. It’s just Miles Sampa who he loves or hates so much and had to suspend him while ignoring acting on anyone one else. Guess, except Miles, all membership behaves well; 110% during his illegal tenure that is coming to an end very very soon.

“So says a man been there for him both in his good or bad times last 15 years since he was introduced to me by Sata but has now agreed to be hired and used as my political mercenary by known PF hijackers like Nakacinda whose only political success story is destroying political parties while milking cash and resources from former Republican Presidents. The Nakacinda-led hijackers of PF have their days numbers as well. It shall be liberated from their greedy jaws,” he said.