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PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya
The governing Patriotic Front says it’s not worried or moved by opinion polls suggesting that its chances of losing next month’s elections are high.
PF Deputy Spokesperson Frank Bwalya says this is because most of such predictions are being made by discredited researchers.
Mr. Bwalya has singled out the latest prediction by political scientist Neo Simutanyi that the opposition UPND can win the forthcoming general election in the first round of voting if it manages to increase on the votes it got in the 2015 presidential election, as one such prediction that the ruling PF considers to be fake.
He says Zambians recall how Dr. Simutanyi made a similar prediction in 2011 that former President Rupiah Banda would win the general election, but ended up losing to late President Michael Sata.
Mr. Bwalya notes that what Dr. Simutanyi has not taken into consideration is the fact that the PF is no longer having the leadership wrangles it had prior to the 2015 presidential election.
He states that as far as the PF is concerned, Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces are solidly behind President Edgar Lungu and that the party is certain of victory in the forthcoming elections.