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FDD Monze Rally
Opposition Forum for Democracy and Development President Edith Nawakwi says Southern Province will not run the country as a province if their leaders continue issuing tribal statements whenever they go to campaign in the province.
Speaking when she addressed a mammoth rally in Monze on Wednesday, the opposition leader said there is no one province that can win and govern the country without the help of other provinces.
Ms Nawakwi said Southern Province will remain in opposition in for decades if their leaders continued to preach tribalism whenever they address them.
The FDD Leader observed that the province has for the last 15 years voted for UPND but that the party continues to be in opposition an indication that it needs support from other provinces to govern.
And Ms. Nawakwi has challenged candidates telling people not to vote for her because she is a woman to produce their CVs and compare with hers for people to judge who is the most qualified to take up the nation’s top job.
She said she has served as Minister for ten years and as MP for two different constituencies for 15 years something no candidate among the eleven candidates can boast of.
Ms Nawakwi stated that no one among the other candidates knows how to negotiate for the country more than her.
And the FDD President has threatened to report Tourism
Minister and Mandevu MP Jean Kapata to the police and the Electoral Commission of Zambia if she allegedly continues tearing down her campaign posters.
The opposition leader says Ms. Kapata should not take the confusion in her party to the FDD as the party does not engage in uncivilized politics which was an order of the day in the ruling PF.
Ms. Nawakwi said her party has carried out issued based campaigns and would not allow uncivilized elements from other political parties to tarnish the good name and reputation the party has so far earned.
Ms. Kapata has been accused of personally supervising the tearing down posters of FDD president Edith Nawakwi in Roma her residential area and other areas in Mandevu constituency and threatening to beat up taxi drivers who have been helping the FDD leader to put up posters in the area.