KBF REGRETS SUPPORTING UPND

By Jessica Mwansa

I AM not ashamed to say I was among the 2.8 million people that voted for President Hakainde Hichilema to take over presidency because we wanted change, but I regret wasting my vote, Zambia Must Prosper leader Kelvin Bwalya Fube has said.

Mr. Fube said his party had officially withdrawn from supporting the United Party for National Development due to what he termed as unpatriotic and failure to fulfil its campaign message.

“I disengaged from the UPND alliance because they have no vision and they are politically and morally bankrupt. I realised that the UNPD Government has no vision that is why I left the alliance. I realised that they had lied to me and the nation. It is on the basis of the lies that they got elected and the only logical thing to do was to disengage from them. There is no bitterness in me but I am doing it for the betterment of this country,” Mr Fube said.

But Evangelical Youth Alliance Executive Director Moses Lungu said Mr. Fube’s political situation was his own making and that he should ask himself why he fell out of favour with Edgar Lungu when he was a staunch Patriotic Front (PF) member.

Rev. Lungu said had Mr. Fube been given a job by the UPND, he would not have been attacking the same party today but that his political challenges were as a result of him being not truthful adding that this was the reason he was running a one-man political party without any following.

“When two presidents reject you, it is time to reflect and find answers as to where you went wrong and adjust but when you constantly blame others for your own failures, then you are not moving forward. If Mr. Fube was given a job by the UPND, was he going to say what he is saying now? I do not think so.

“As much as he is at liberty to provide checks and balances to those in power as a leader of an opposition political party, I still feel what is critical for him is to mobilise his party as a matter of priority if he is to go into the 2026 election as a serious contender to the presidency, failure to which he will again settle for alliances because that is how far he has demonstrated to us that he can go,” Rev. Lungu said.