ZAMBIANS must not make a mistake of electing Edgar Lungu as president because he is a crook, a Chawama Constituency resident Morgan Muunda has charged.
Muunda said Lungu could not be entrusted with the Presidency because he had failed to address the challenges in his constituency.
“Electing Edgar as Zambia’s president would be the worst mistake we could ever make as a nation because that man is a crook,” he charged. “The people of Chawama Constituency have been facing a lot of challenges and our MP has failed to improve our poor lives.”
Muunda said Lungu would only bring misery.
“So what makes some PF members think that Edgar can lead the entire nation? He will only bring more misery for the people if elected as president,” he added.
Muunda challenged Lungu to explain how he would address challenges that Zambia was facing when he had failed to govern a small constituency like Chawama.
“Lungu has been accessing Community Development Fund (CDF) meant for Chawama but he has never consulted us as a community on how to use it. Even the construction of police posts in the constituency, no tender was announced, the man just does things the way he [feels] like without any adequate consultation or worrying about the feelings of other people. So what kind of leader is he?” he asked.
Muunda further alleged that Lungu was not a sober-minded leader.
“If you were to visit some casinos in Chawama, you would find him (Lungu) drunk. He drinks to an extent that he can no longer control himself,” Muunda said.
And Muunda challenged Lungu to explain to the nation, what led to the revocation of his practicing licence by the Law Association of Zambia, which he (Lungu) only got back recently.
“Can he clarify this? We hear that he used to swindle money from some his clients; we do not know whether it’s true or not, so can he explain the truth. And if it’s true, then we are not ready for him,” said Muunda.
Meanwhile, UPND chairperson Mutale Nalumango has urged Zambians to critically scrutinise backgrounds of people vying for the Presidency.
Nalumango told the media yesterday that people like Lungu were failures, who did not have a clean background.
“Some look popular [that] they have been adopted by so many MPs but Zambians, I urge you, scrutinise them. Look at their track records, and I can tell you that one’s track record is not clean. That man is a failure. All through his journey, he is a failure. Find out why he failed. You do not take a failure and make him to be the head of state or even to be the head of resources,” said Nalumango.
UPND yesterday also announced that they had picked Hakainde Hichilema to be their sole candidate for the coming presidential election
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