MOVEMENT FOR MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY (MMD) CHIENGI MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT KATELE KALUMBA SAYS THE DECISION TO STOP THE ADOPTION PROCESS AND PLEDGE SUPPORT TO HIM BY THE PEOPLE IN HIS CONSTITUENCY WAS AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA

MOVEMENT FOR MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY (MMD) CHIENGI MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT KATELE KALUMBA SAYS THE DECISION TO STOP THE ADOPTION PROCESS AND PLEDGE SUPPORT TO HIM BY THE PEOPLE IN HIS CONSTITUENCY WAS AS A RESULT OF TRAUMA WHICH THEY WENT THROUGH AFTER THEY REALIZED THAT HE WILL NOT STAND IN THE ELECTIONS.
SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW, DR KALUMBA SAID PEOPLE IN HIS CONSTITUENCY WERE UNHAPPY WITH THE FACT THAT HE WILL NOT STAND AGAIN IN THIS YEAR’S ELECTIONS DUE TO HIS COURT CASES AS THEY BELIEVE IN HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE AND QUALITIES.
DR KALUMBA ACCUSED THE MMD NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF NOT ADEQUATELY PREPARING THE VOTERS IN HIS CONSTITUENCY, ON THE FACT THAT HE WILL NOT STAND ADDING THAT HE HOPES SUCH PROBLEMS WILL NOT COST THE PARTY BY LOSING POPULARITY AND THE SEAT.
HE SAYS HE ONLY PLEADED WITH THE PEOPLE TO PROCEED AND ADOPT A CANDIDATE TO CONTEST IN THIS YEAR’S ELECTION AND PLEDGED TO SUPPORT THE PERSON WHO WILL BE ADOPTED TO ENSURE THAT THE SEAT IS RETAINED AND THE PARTY CAN CONTINUE TO ENJOY ITS DOMINANCE.
MEANWHILE DR. KALUMBA WHO IS ALSO FORMER MMD NATIONAL SECRETARY EXPLAINED THAT THE PROBLEMS WHICH WERE ALSO WITNESSED AT PROVINCIAL LEVEL IN LUAPULA IS AS A RESULT OF MEMBERS NOT ACCEPTING THOSE WHO REJOINED THE RULING PARTY FROM THE OPPOSITION PATRIOTIC FRONT.
HE SAYS MEMBERS RESISTED THE REBEL PF MPS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
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