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700 UPND MEMBERS DEFECT TO PF

By JACKSON MAPAPAYI

ABOUT 700 United Party for National Development (UPND) members have defected to the Patriotic Front (PF) in Solwezi.

The former UPND members were received by PF member of the Central Committee Joe Malanji at a party mobilisation rally.

Mr Malanji commended the new PF members for their decision to join the ruling party, indicating that the UPND was finished in North-Western Province.

“The decision you have made today is the right one because the UPND has nothing to offer,” Mr Malanji said.

He urged the new members to work with the old members to bring more new members, as politics was about numbers.

Mr Malanji urged people in the province not to vote for the UPND as the has nothing to offer.

“You have had UPND Members of Parliament, council chairpersons including councillors, what have they done which they can point at? Nothing. So, why should you continue voting for them? Nothing,” he said.

And former UPND deputy chairperson for legal and constitutional committee, Milner Katolo, described the UPND as a failed project.

Mr Katolo stated that the UPND was not ready to govern Zambia because of its undemocratic tendencies.

And former Solwezi Deputy Mayor, Nephan Kamwandi, regretted his stay in the UPND.

“I am regretting the numbers of years I have stayed in UPND. And that is why today I have decided to join PF because I don’t want to waste more years,” he said.

Mr Kamwandi pledged to go flat out and bring more new members to the party.

Meanwhile, PF provincial chairman Jackson Kungo earlier said he would ensure that UPND was ‘buried’ in the province.

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