ANOTHER BIGWIG DITCHES SOCIALIST PARTY

By NATION REPORTER

ANOTHER senior member  of the Socialist Party, Andrew Sinyangwe has resigned from the opposition party citing internal dictatorship, lack of respect and self-centredness in the top leadership of the party.

And some senior members have started agitating for the replacement of their party leader, Dr Fred M’membe because they strongly believe he is unelectable because of his autocratic traits.

Mr Sinyangwe, the former Central Province chairperson says he had decided to resign because he had realised that there was no democratic space in the party.

Mr Sinyangwe said in an interview yesterday that he had tendered his resignation in May but that Dr Cosmas Musumali, the General Secretary of the of the Socialist Party was not willing to accept his resignation. He said he had decided to join the SP because he was looking for democratic space but had come to the realisation that classlessness which the leadership was preaching was in fact not a norm nor a culture they tolerated and promoted.

Meanwhile, sources from within the Socialist Party have disclosed that some senior members of the Socialist Party have started agitating for the replacement of their party leader, Fred M’membe because they strongly believe he is unelectable because of his autocratic traits.

The sources have revealed that it was not surprising that Mr Sinyangwe had resigned from the SP barely few days after Frank Bwalya had renounced his membership with the party because there top leadership was exhibiting a propensity of self-centeredness. 

They said Mr Sinyangwe had been completely been sidelined and that when there was a by-election in Mukushi and Serenje, Dr M’membe decided to send party functionaries from the secretariat in Lusaka to Central Province to go identify the candidates and prepare for elections without informing the provincial leadership.

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