By SIMON MUNTEMBA
IF our colleagues in the UPND think they won the August 12 election on their own and begin to make Alliance partners irrelevant, that may produce a problem, Zambia We Want leader Kelvin Bwalya Fube has warned.
Mr Fube, who is one of the UPND Alliance partners, said he expected President Hakainde Hichilema to run the country based on what they agreed as an alliance when in opposition during the campaign period.
He said Zambians did not vote for the UPND alone but the UPND Alliance.
He said this yesterday when he was hosted at Camnet TV’s National Matters Programme.
Asked why the Alliance name was slowly being removed whenever statements were made by some officials in reference to the current administration, Mr Fube said as far as he knew the Alliance was still there.
“During campaigns you asked for votes as UPND Alliance, but the alliance name is slowly being dropped in most of the speeches by some Government officials, they are just saying the UPND Government, is that what you agreed?” Pastor Moses Chiluba asked Mr Fube.
In response, Mr Fube said he believed the Zambian people entrusted the UPND Alliance with the responsibility of running the affairs of the country.
He however warned that if the Alliance partners were sidelined, there would be “problems.”
“From where I am sitting, the Alliance is still there, but if our colleagues in the UPND begin to think and feel that they delivered this victory by themselves, we may have crossroads at a point. If our colleagues begin to make the Alliance irrelevant, it may produce a problem. That is the promise I can give the Zambian people,” Mr Fube said.
Mr Fube also said he believed the country would be run based on the fundamentals they agreed on as Alliance partners.
“I believe the discussions we had with President Hakainde Hichilema as friends and opposition leaders are the same basis on which he is going to run this country.
“If there will be any veering or diverting from those fundamentals, then, there might be a problem. I am being as honest as the sun that rises in the east and sets in the west,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mr Fube has disclosed that he mutually agreed with President Hichilema to be left out on ministerial and other government appointments.
He said contrary to the perception that he was bitter for being left out on appointments, he was happy because that is what he wanted.
Mr Fube explained that he did not enter into an alliance with UPND for a position but to liberate Zambia from the bad leadership of the Patriotic Front.
He said he was part of Government working underground to ensure the President succeeded.
