Chilangwa: Opposition Can Not Decampaign PF, They Will Cry Like Their Friends In SA

THE opposition in Zambia will cry like their colleagues in South Africa who wasted time talking about irrelevant things instead of addressing real issues, says home affairs deputy minister Nickson Chilangwa.
Chilangwa, who is Luapula Province PF chairperson and the ruling party’s head of research bureau, said opposition political parties in the country were wasting time talking about the constitution just like the South African opposition, which concentrated on the Nkandla saga thinking they were decampaigning ANC’s Jacob Zuma.
Chilangwa said it was a sheer waste of time discussing the constitution, which the PF would deliver.
He further said the issue of the constitution had become the opposition’s Nkandla in Zambia.
Chilangwa said the opposition had abandoned real campaign issues and decided to spend most of their time ‘jumping about the constitution issue’.
“The opposition in Zambia has a lot to learn from their South African colleagues who bored the voters with cheap talk about the Nkandla saga without realising that people believe so much in the ANC and Jacob Zuma. What happened last week in South Africa is a big lesson to the opposition here whose Nkandla is the constitution. The so-called opposition want to be jumping about the constitution issue….” Chilangwa said.
“It is a waste of time for the opposition to think that they can use the constitution debate to decampaign the PF and President Michael Sata. Everyday, they are talking about the constitution, which is already a done deal. What they are forgetting is that the people of Zambia are not interested; they want real issues. They know the PF under President Sata’s leadership is delivering,” he said.
Chilangwa said people were now tired of some opposition leaders ‘singing about the constitution, an issue which is not even controversia.’
“Nobody amongst the so-called opposition told President Sata to constitute the technical committee on drafting the Zambian constitution within 90 days of forming government. Why would they want to be champions now?” asked Chilangwa.
In the week, Given Lubinda said there was no opposition in the country and that there would be no change of government in 2016.