By KETRA KALUNGA
IT’S nonsensical for some political leaders to equate President Edgar Lungu’s leadership qualities to the behaviour of his friends, says Zambia Republican Party (ZRP) president, Wright Musoma.
Development Party (DP) leader, Harry Kalaba recently criticised President Lungu for having friends who in his view were not worthy of his friendship.
But Mr. Musoma said President Lungu had the right to have friends because before he is President, he is a human being.
He said in an interview that Mr. Kalaba’s bitterness towards Lungu would ruin his political career because it has already blinded his ability to judge others positively.
Mr. Musoma said political leaders should stop being petty by making senseless statements through the media about President Lungu and his friends because that was his private life which should be respected.
He said Mr. Kalaba’s pettiness has blinded his sense of judgment to an extent of resorting to making senseless statements about the Head of State and his associates.
He said Mr. Kalaba’s recent sentiments about President Lungu and his friends were insignificant because the Head of State is a human being who before being President had friends and it’s obvious that some of them are still friends.
“Mr Kalaba is not making sense by equating President Lungu’s leadership to the type of friends he has, the President is a human being, before coming Presidents he had friends, childhood, and close friends and he has them,” he said. Mr. Musoma said
