NDC has no plans to enter an alliance with UPND

NDC Secretary General Mwenya Musenga

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it has no immediate intentions of going into an alliance with the United Party for National Development (UPND).

NDC Secretary General Mwenya Musenge says his party has never engaged in any talks with the UPND on prospects to explore a possible alliance.

He says therefore, talk that the NDC should venture into a working pact with the UPND are premature.

Mr Musenge has since urged NDC members countrywide to ignore such discourse, and instead preoccupy themselves mobilizing structures in their respective localities.

He states that the NDC has high chances of forming government in 2021 as a single entity going by the support the party is receiving countrywide.

Meanwhile the NDC has expressed concern over what it has termed as the selective administration of the Public Order Act.

NDC Copperbelt Chairperson Mulenga Chikopa has described as unfair and discriminatory the provincial Police command’s decision to deny his party permits to hold meetings in Mufulira and Chingola districts.

Mr Chikopa says while the police have used the excuse of the cholera outbreak tio deny his party permits, they have been issuing the Patriotic Front with permits, citing the public gathering PF Secretary General Davies Mwila held in Lufwanyama over the weekend.

He further points to the rallies Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya and other Ministers from Luapuala held during their visit to the province last week.

Mr Chikopa has since urged the Police command to be fair and impartial in their dealings.