By Staff Reporter<\/p>\n
OPPOSITION alliance\u2019s media and finance sub-committee chairperson Sean Tembo says the ruling PF is a total fraud which should be excused from governing.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Pan African radio\u2019s\u00a0News Feedback<\/em>\u00a0programme on Monday evening, Tembo, who is also Patriots for Economic Progress president, said while the PF may have the keys to the armoury and State coffers, the opposition parties had the key to Zambians\u2019 hearts and minds.<\/p>\n He noted that he had a lot of confidence in each of the 10 political parties that formed the opposition alliance.<\/p>\n \u201cWe introspected as individual opposition political parties and we told ourselves that \u2018individually, yes we might be able to ascend to power and properly run the affairs of this republic.\u2019 I believe that each of these political parties are credible and genuinely speak on behalf of the Zambian people,\u201d Tembo said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs PeP we saw it wise to join this collection of credible individuals who are able to stand up to this corrupt government, despite the consequences. I can assure you that the consequences are dire because these individuals in the ruling party are very desperate\u201d.<\/p>\n Tembo indicated that the opposition alliance\u2019s leaders understood the consequences of standing up to the PF government but \u201cour desire to serve the Zambian people is greater than the fear or intimidation and harassment by the PF government.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey (PF) might have the keys to the Bank of Zambia such that they can get whatever amount of money they need to bribe the voters. They might have the keys to the armoury to fire teargas to the people, to the opposition to prevent us from campaigning. But we have the keys to the hearts and minds of the majority of the Zambian people who realise that the PF and its government are a total fraud and they need to be excused, to be retired in national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n And Tembo pointed out that the opposition alliance could decide to float any of its leaders as a 2021 presidential candidate and that such ought not to bother non-members of the alliance.<\/p>\n \u201cI must mention that if, as an alliance, we decided to make Mr Hakainde Hichilema the President of Zambia, then we would have decided. Where\u2019s the problem? How would that bother any individual who is not a member of the alliance? But as it is right now, we haven\u2019t made any such decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf any decision is made [on] whether to nominate Mr Hichilema or Honourable Kambwili or Mr Sean Tembo or Mr Elias Chipimo to be the \u00a0candidate for 2021, then we shall communicate to the Zambian citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n Tembo added that the members of the opposition alliance were \u201cvery experienced and shrewd politicians\u201d who could not start fighting simply because of \u201ccheap PF propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI can assure you that none of those funny statements that the PF is circulating against the alliance will have an effect on the alliance. The alliance is here to stay and we know that the PF is scared of the alliance,\u201d Tembo charged.<\/p>\n \u201cOur message to them is that let them be very scared because we are not here to play games as an alliance; we are here to deliver on the aspirations of the Zambian people.\u201d<\/p>\n He further noted that the opposition alliance\u2019s main objective was not necessarily to dislodge the PF from power.<\/p>\n \u201cOur main objective is to deliver a better Zambia for citizens. Retiring of the PF in the national interest is merely incidental to our ultimate objective. Our objective is to deliver a better Zambia to the citizens of this republic,\u201d<\/p>\n Tembo said while the little that had been done by the PF needed to be appreciated, the PF needed \u201cto be excused.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe appreciate the little that they have done; we appreciate the few roads that they have built, although they have built them at four times the price that they should have built them. We appreciate the toll gates that they have built although they built a toll gate at K55 million instead of K1 million or K2 million,\u201d Tembo lamented.<\/p>\n \u201cThis alliance is born out of sacrifice! At the time I was forming the Patriots for Economic Progress, I had a lot of ambition – I still do have ambitions to become a President of this republic. But when the time comes to choose the person who is going to represent the alliance in the 2021 general elections and the person who is going to be the running mate in the alliance for 2021 general elections and I\u2019m not among those people, I will still support the alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n He said his desire to be Zambia\u2019s President was far outweighed by the poverty that Zambians were going through.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Staff Reporter OPPOSITION alliance\u2019s media and finance sub-committee chairperson Sean Tembo says the ruling PF is a total fraud which should be excused from governing. Speaking on Pan African radio\u2019s\u00a0News Feedback\u00a0programme on Monday evening, Tembo, who is also Patriots for Economic Progress president, said while the PF may have the keys to the armoury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}