By NATION REPORTER
THE results of the 2021 general election shocked even the people who were managing the elections, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) whose officials are still asking how the Patriotic Front (PF) lost, Zambia’s Six President Eagar Lungu has disclosed.
And former President Lungu has vowed that he will not allow the UPND which, for the last three years has been on a crusade to annihilate, destroy and kill the PF to preside over the 10TH memorial of late President Michael Sata, in a bid to permanently put his spirit to rest, Zambia’s Sixth President Edgar Lungu has said.
Meanwhile, former President Lungu has revealed that serious people have been requesting him to return to politics and because an incidental President because they are exceedingly disappointed by President Hakainde Hichilema, whom he said has spent three years of his term persecuting his perceived enemies.
“Up to now, many people are saying they did not vote for him (President Hichilema) and are blaming each other. Some senior official from the ECZ come to me and said how did we lose the election? Up to now, I do not know how we lost but there was a lot of violence. They were butchering people…there was so much blood. Kungo was barbarically killed and a good number of people said I should cancel the election but I feared there would be more bloodshed,” former President Lungu said.
And the former head of State says he had not returned to active politics to be President once again by all means but that he was ready and willing to be useful even outside the presidency for as long as that would mean the restoration of democracy and the rule of law.
“Serious people are asking me bwelelenipo (come back) because they are hugely disappointed by what is going on. They are coming to be that I was an accidental President but I should now be the incidental President. I have have said if that is God’s wish, I could be useful as President or even outside the presidency. Initially I felt betrayed that I had lost the election but after settling down, I realized there was a hand of God in my loss because He has his own ways of exposing people,” former President Lungu said.
Former President Lungu says it is hypocrisy of the worst kind for the UPND government to hijack the 10th memorial service of late President Sata, the man he said they had demonized to his death. Former President Lungu said, when late President Sata died, some people wildly celebrated and immediately embarked on their campaigns because they had seen an ooporutnity to take power and form government immediately.
The former head of State said when the UPND got power in 2021, they embarked on a crusade to destroy the PF with the hope of annihilating and killing Zambia’s largest opposition political party.
“President Sata is being remembered as a brave man, sincere in his calls for poor Zambians to live decent lives. He (Sata) was not tribal but a unifier. I will not allow people who persecuted Mr Sata to his death to take advantage of tomorrow (today) to put his memory to rest forever,” former President Lungu said.
He explained that Zambia’s fifth President stood for certain values which the UPND had been fighting for the last three years and it was being hypocritical for the governing party to take over his 10th memorial.
“The same people who are working to kill PF should be presiding over Mr Sata’s memorial? The same people should put his ghost to rest forever? And we are watching? We can’t accept that!” he said.
He said when the same people finally got power in 2021, they now want to attend to the memorial to ensure that even his party died with him.
“How can you allow somebody who has murdered your son or your daughter and you are still mourning to come and attend the funeral and even want to speak at the funeral? How can you, a Catholic, be remembered in a Jehovah’s Witness hall? How can you be remembered in the Seventh Day Church when everybody knows that you are Catholic?” Former President Lungu wondered.
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