Opposition NDC defacto president Chishimba Kambwili has allegedly been begging former MMD members in Masaiti District to go back to their party and leave the area MP in the PF alone, MMD Copperbelt youth vice chairperson Tobias Banda has revealed.
Banda has narrated to this reporter that Kambwili apologised to the Masaiti MMD district executive committee for being part of the group that told them to work with and join PF.
He says the NDC has been trying to convince MMD members in the district to join them but that they have hit a brick wall as members see NDC as a branch of PF which has just changed colours.
Banda says three weeks ago, NDC political consultant Kambwili went to the district where he apologised to the MMD members and asked them to leave the PF and return to their party because the ruling party had only brought them suffering.
Kambwili reportedly said farmers in the district were better off in the MMD because they received their inputs on time.
“Kambwili was telling our people that they made our people suffer, he regrets persuading us(MMD) to forming an alliance with PF. You shouldnt have accepted to form an alliance so that we(PF) should have lost because Edgar Lungu has terribly failed,” Banda said.
“He also told them that the challenges you are facing as famers especially late delivery of farmer support inputs and late payment for your produce had never happened during the MMD. MMD had its own issues but handled agriculture better than what the PF is doing no.”
This reporter tried to get the side of the story from former Information Minister but he could not be reached as his phone was off.