PF to participate in Kawambwa by-election via Tonse Alliance

ZAMBIA’S Sixth President Edgar Lungu, has warned Zambians that President Hakainde Hichilema is determined to destroy the country’s democracy and the rule of law in Zambia in a bid to turn the country into a dictatorship.
Former President Lungu has also warned that as the country goes towards 2026, President Hichilema would continue to break the law with impunity, shall disregard the Constitution and the rule of law as has been exemplified in the last three years.
In a statement issued by PF secretary general Raphael Nakachinda, former President Lungu stated that a fresh illegality was recently committed when new office bearers for the Patriotic Front (PF) were illegally changed and from which someone was installed as leaders of the former ruling party.
The former head of State, who is the presidential candidate for the Tonse Alliance stated that the illegal decisions to adulterate the office bearers of the PF were being perpetrated by officers at the Ministry of Home Affairs including Jack Mwiimbu, Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security and his Permanent Secretary, Dickson Matembo.
Former President Lungu stated that the illegalities were meant to de-franchise and bar the PF from participating in the country’s democratic processes. President Lungu was speaking during the emergency central committee meeting held yesterday which has since resolved to participate in the Kawambwa by-election. The PF has however maintained that the by-election being held in Kawambwa remained totally illegal because of the High Court order issued by the Chinsali High Court to stay and stop the Kawambwa by-election.
Former President said the PF should continue to fight through legal processes but also through political methods.
Meanwhile the PF has resolved that it shall support a candidate that would be fielded by the opposition in the Kawambwa by-election.
The Central Committee stated that it would activate party structures to identify a candidate, publicly support and campaign for the identified candidate.
And the PF has declared that it would place and implement a robust political campaign and urged all its MPs, all leaders and ordinary members to camp in Kawambwa in order to honour the party’s deputy secretary general Nixon Chilangwa, whose seat was being stolen in broad day light.
The central committee formally thanked the Tonse Alliance for its gracious gesture to adopt former President Lungu as the 2026 presidential candidate.
The Central Committee also reaffirmed its commitment to work with other political alliances and would continue to engage in electoral pacts with other opposition political parties.