We are not in alliance with UPND – Chikwelete

Wynter Kabimba and Hakainde Hichilema

The opposition Rainbow Party has dismissed assertions that it is in an alliance with UPND ahead of this year’s elections.

This comes in the wake of a front page picture in The Post newspaper showing Rainbow Party General Secretary Wynter Kabimba with his UPND counterpart Hakainde Hichilema shaking hands after a meeting for opposition political parties convened by veteran politician Vernon Mwaanga.

Rainbow Party National Coordinator for Mobilization Robert Chikwelete has explained that the two political parties cannot be in an electoral alliance because they have different ideologies.

Mr. Chikwelete says the party is not in any alliance with any political party and Rainbow Party is not going to form any alliance with anyone during the 2016 general election.

He has explained that the photo referred to was taken during an opposition political party meeting organised by Dr. Mwaanga at which Kabimba read out the communiqué’.

He says the Party will field candidates in all the 150 constituencies.

Mr. Chikwelete says the Party will use its electoral alertness and pro-activity its members applied while in PF in 2011.