PF to choose Lusaka mayoral candidate on Saturday
By Staff Reporter
RULING Patriotic Front will this Saturday pick its candidate for the Lusaka mayoral and all other local government by-elections.
In a statement to the media PF secretary general Davies Mwila stated, “let me also announce that Central Committee will sit on 23rd June 2018 to consider applications for Mayoral and Council Chairperson in all the upcoming by-elections. I want to call on all our members to prepare for people centered-campaigns in all the affected districts”.
Mwila also called upon all the aspiring candidates to appreciate that under a democracy, there can only be one candidate and once that decision had been made, the party would be expected to move together and embrace the unity of purpose.
“This is the discipline the loyal members of the party have continued to demonstrate at every given point. In its deliberations, Central Committee will consider what is best for the people of Lusaka and other districts where the elections will be held as well as the party at large,” he said
“In the same vein, I wish to call on all political parties, including ourselves, to shun political violence ahead of the mayoral elections for the greater City of Lusaka on 26th July 2018 in order to promote a culture of peace and tolerance. This call is in line with the directive His Excellency President Edgar Lungu made for all political parties, ourselves included, to carry out serious introspection on the question of violence by our members”.
Mwila added that the ruling Party will do all it can to provide leadership on this serious matter as well as ensure that there are practical measures to curb violence perpetrated by political parties.
He said Patriotic Front believed in tolerance of one another
