I’m the democratically elected republican president of Zambia and I do not need to be recognised by the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND), charged President Lungu.
UPND president Hakainde Hichilema has disputed the election of President Lungu and has vowed that the opposition party will not recognise his presidency.
But President Lungu today said the UPND must now come to terms that he was dully elected and has been recognised by the whole world. He said even if the UPND does not recognise him as president it will have no significance.
“I don’t need to be accepted by the UPND. I am here, and I am the President. I am accepted by Zambians and the world at large. So what is their problem? I don’t need recognition from them,” President Lungu when asked by Journalist that the UPND does not recognise his presidency.
He said the electoral process went on well in a democratic manner adding that the parallel voter tabulation (PVT) showed that he won the Presidential elections.
President Lungu said the UPND can choose to remain in denial and delusion but the country will continue to move forward.
In response to remarks by the UPND that they will give the Patriotic Front (PF) a tough time in parliament despite the ruling party having large numbers, President Lungu said Zambians were mature and if the UPND contribute to developmental issues, they will appreciate them.
President Lungu said the Zambian people will judge the conduct of the UPND Members of Parliament who boycotted Parliament when he officially opened it.
He however said if UPND Members of Parliament make fools of themselves in parliament, the Zambians will judge them.
He said Zambians do not entertain mischief but want tangible development.
President Lungu was speaking at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport shortly before he left for Ndola to watch the football match between Zambia and Nigeria on Sunday.
52 years after independence and we end up with an incompetent person like Lungu who did not even win transparently and everyone was watching. I think I need to change my nationality, this is embrassing.
wht God has put in place no man can remove told u he who whorships the true God rules Zambia may we stay blessed and bless our great nation Zambia u dont agree go to hell and burn with envy and jelousy
Wat he is sayng its true bcoz he noz dat he stole votes frm hh.us zambians dd nt vote for hm dnt acuse us,we voted for HH.
I am no psychologist but body language speaks a lot Lungu is a scared man. He should have agreed to a vote verification or allowed the courts to hear the matter but now all this is too late. I need to practice my profession and fight.
Yes the bible prohibits stealing, but it ddoesn’t help to be with someone talk to that person seeing that person taking your bicycle tells you good bye then later you start looking for it claiming the person you were had stollen your bicycle.
Stealing is getting something without knowledge of the owner. The question is where was our UPND monitors in polling stations, council chambers, constituencies, provincial Hqtrs as well as at the National totaling centre. It’s either our UPND monitors didn’t understood their role hence failed to protect the vote or they conived with PF to stole our votes (UPND votes).
Next time, you should deploy mature people to protect the vote.
Elections should not be stolen. In the first place if things are transparent, no one needs observers. Further, tax payers money is used so no one should cheat the tax payer who contributes to getting the process in action.
WE NEED WATCHDOG BACK,
At asking for fasting and praying for what chagwa? UPND people are in imprison, are you mocking GOD, CHAGWA.? October 18, don’t attend , let Christian for Lungu and Bishop Banda, go to pray. The rest stay home, let the people in prison out of prison.
better to keep zzzzzzzzzzz than to worst time posting useless statements wen its hot
If you won don’t even worry , but if you are afraid of your own shadow then you are a thief. The president can not react in that way , by the way, Inonge wina is a woman and if the one who was undressesed was a woman then Inonge was undressed, what ever we saw on Mrs. Nyerenda are equally on I once wina . Uushilwila mutembo wamunankwe no wakwe upokwa. I one please stand for the women not for money . We shall un dress you too ?
ka lungu back to chawama we dont need you…
That’s the behavior of a thief, after stealing some ones chose, he celebrates as if he is clever, look at the rotten teeth like a mouse under a bag of ground nuts, msatachoko.
I like that…mwatekunya boss!!
The problem with HH and his UPND party is that they are so desperate to rule this country.The ascention to the UPND leadership by HH was through the backdoor,Sakwiba Sikota and Patrick Chisanga were the legitimate vice presidents under Anderson Mazoka and one of these could have taken the leadership of UPND,and I bet this time around UPND could have formed government.
As usual tribe was at play.Please lets not allow tribalism to destroy our One Zambia one nation fibre.
Good one, PF 101 MPs UPND 58 MPs yet as Zambians we still feel our man with less MPs won and a man with 101 lost only to emmerge winner through Chavuna munipulating figures in the saver room on for presidency. 58 MPs is the majority for Zambians who voted and 101 MPs is the minority. am just wondering.
Will it be seen normal for a president with 58 MPs go to state house and a man with 101 MPs declared looser and confortably say the majority Zambians managed to send 58 PMs to parliament and Minority managed to send 101 to parliament.
Take for instance the opening of parliament. What made the business of the house to proceed in the absence of some MPs? It is because the majority MPs 101+4+1 and other independent MPs were present. If the 58 MPs (UPND) absents themselves from business of the house, it won’t chage anything.
Another instance is where Mweetwa was calling the the president as Edgar in parliament and he was asked who he was refering to as Edgar and in which capacity answered in his own words “the president” so he made a fool of himself publicly.
Fear God and give Him Glory. People should read the Ten Commandments in the Holy Bible, one of them states that “Thou Shall Not Steal” God ordained the writers, meaning these words are God’s. We need to fear God as our creature, lets do things correctly and God will bless us.
Boss one day you shall be answerable to God because for sure you know that you were not voted for by the mojority Zambians,therefore you ruling illegally. We blem yo corrupt courts.
Mmmmmm..rigging was also done through spoilt votes, I had never seen so much illiteracy in voting as in the last election..where on earth can you find such levels of voting mistakes as in the last election..one would not expect such levels of voting mistakes after all the elections we have have undertaken in 52 years of independence. .what a shame!
So after Kanyama vote recovery HH got more votes in Kanyama or the votes UPND got in Lundazi changed signifcantly that HH had more votes?
What am saying is you can hide the truth but the fact will still come out. What was Chavula doing in the saver room? Was the saver room a polling station were we voted from? Were the G12 forms not relevant. Were the votes verified with hard copies before announcing is done?
Now i see why the presidential petition was taken to High Court despite knowing the heiracy of courts of law in Zambia.
I emphasize on what Chavula was doing in the saver room can’t change anything as UPND were there to verify results with what was signed at Constituency level. I agree with you on irregularities in our electoral process but definitely not the issue of stealing ask any person near you who got involved in conduction elections or as and observer how everything was handled.
Siamunene petitioned the election of Sialubalo, the truth is no matter how hard he try to prrof the mulpractices that had happened will not change the fact that he lost. Remember i am in Southern province and saw the intimidation that happened to PF supporters but the fact remains that people of Sinazongwe massively voted for Sialubalo.
Iwe lasoma your questions cheap which can be answered by grade three pupil, if u were not in Zambia during elections time yes someone may answer u.Kindly know that there were alot of manipulations in the previous elections eg lundazi figures were inflated in favor of lungu, kanyama votes hh votes were reduced until after efforts by upnd members after some tips by well meaning Zambians and I have more questions for u but will only ask this one for start if u will give the nation a convincing answer, Tell the nation what one Mr chavula doing in the server room who doesn’t work there and who gave him the access?
It’s true they are bad people. A non easterner is retired today immediately an easterner is promoted. Chama retired Banda promoted. These people think they own this country.
The problem is, the leadership is fake. Even us now really pf members know the truth. We are not going anywhere with this wako ni wako slogan. This new pf is for easterners only. It’s true, easterners are bad people very bad people. Bamuzungu wanga.
i want to know whether the UK and USA also sent congulatory messages to the president of zambia, if not why not
They didn’t and will not because they like many Zambians doubt he won the August 11. Lungu must prove he won by allowing the petition to be heard
Politics are politics. Now in case you don’t understance what you mean by saying Edgar stole your votes, here are some of the simple questions you MUST get answers for yourself.
1. Do you believe that apart from you voting for HH someone else voted for Edgar?
2. Are you saying that that no one voted for Edgar?
3. What assurance do we have that from the total votes HH got our votes didn’t count?
4. Are talking about stollen votes in HH’s strong holds or in PF’s strong holds.
5. will it make sense for PF to claim that votes were stollen because they got 200 against 30,000 in Dundumwezi, 2,000 against 39,000 in Sinazongwe, 5,000 against 50,000 in Choma Central?
5. Why is it that when HH is beaten in other parts of the country you say our votes were stollen>
Honestly if you ask me, there were no vote stealing unless you don’t understand what you are talking about and you just want to make a fool of yourself. Yes we do agree that there were alot of concerns in the electoral process but believe you me that can’t change the fact that people of Dundumwezi voted for HH. That is the truth no matter what we say or do the fact will still stand.
You see brothers, It doesn’t mean that because yourself and your family voted for PF with the entire region you live, you MUST be aware that someone also with a family and the whole region in which he lives voted for HH, but who will win? the majority will win.
May we move forward are stop thinking that people voted for HH, then what voted for Edgar, aren’t they people also?
You are a piece of shit
yah am just lookingw
I am reading these comments and thinking to myself, Does this paper have a policy in place or laws that they follow to allow someone insult another person, These disgrantled UPND so called cadres have been given too much freedom to insult the government of the day. Its time we behaved responsible and mature as zambians. No wonder the western will always look down on us because of these so called part supported who have no direction. The international courts will never entertain such nonsensical idiotical criticism of the head of state being displayed on this article.
consertive I thought u are wise yet u are foolish .u started by advising people not tl insult but u ended up insulting urself.foolish u.
That’s the problem with pf,first you close the post thinking now we are done. But Zwd stared proving to be more lethal than even the post. u went for it but people are still giving u problems in every direction. The problem is not with media houses but
with yourselves. Killing media houses will just lead to more stronger ones.
Nb: when Jesus Christ was killed, those who did so thought that was the end yet that was the beginning. you r in for it of…..
Nonsensical coments
Now that ZWD has been Liquidated and Privatised by Hakashide, his Cadrers are everywhere vomiting Dogs shit.
Edgar for lif nd am seeing God adding many more years on our president thank u jesus for blessing our leader dat means u bless as too
Nigeria 2 Lungu 1 .How many times are you going to be defeated bwana Give caeser what belongs to caeser and God that which is due to God . You lost the elections bwana may be erections .
Ka cikala ka Edgar Lungu nakatumpa sana, after messing up the electoral process of the country in the way he did and things were, he even has the muscles to utter such nonsense ? This stupid idiot MUST learn to control his tongue and should tone down. So aka kabwa ka Lungu, he does not realize that the God of heaven is also not happy or pleased over what he did in the previous elections ? Elo futi alelanda ifyakukalifya abantu imitima cikala cawishi ? Nani wamusalile nga taisalile fye umwine mubukaka notupuba tunankwe ? Atase, He should know that he is not a God and one day akatolo mupamba cikala cawishi.
Who can recognise you after rigging? Only a dog.
Ichalo cha zambia chilimumaboko yaba mukukulu nomba imf yalingilakala natuchenjele natupepeshesana namaka so dt lesa afumwepo bamukukulu may gud bless mather zambia twakana basakala kikikiki banyadule mwakwesa ziko pasi na inkongole na k64.5bn us donra?
The upnd idiots will mourn till 2021 and will mourn again till 2026. Get it in your thick heard, ECL is Republican President
Lungu must prove he won through an independent body without interference less than that we all doubt he is the true winner of the August 11 elections. Even a simple recount on August 12 would have shown if he really won or not. We all know Lungu did not win these elections and no matter he says everyone will doubt his legitimacy. The best he should have done if he won was allow the courts to rule independently. Then UPND would have nothing to say but he dogged the court process
It’s pipo like u Mj Banda who support such idiocy & dictatorship – leaders who are careless reckless that in the end they take the country to IMF – By the way, what are u really benefitting from this govt.apart from the postings?
Lungu this is not about UPND. You need to Zambians that you won without doubt. As it stands your legitimacy as the real winner of the August 11 elections is highly questionable.All you needed to do is allow the courts to independently make that decision during the petition but we all know how you dogged. The way you became president is not right and was not transparent. Nobody would have a problem if things were done fairly and transparently.
Spot on!
Chikala chawiso who told u ecl won n talk 2021 or 2026 mather fack why talk things dt u dnt chikala mukongo wa mayiko kikikikiki kachikala
Why did the referendum fail if you are the majority bwana? It’s not UPND to recognize you wining in that shameful manner and you expect us the majority to recognize you. Please Ba kataka just enjoy your stolen victory even Mugabe lost to Morgan and is the President of that sinking Titanic. Just continue abusing the police to do your dirt work and on the 18th October call the nation to fast and pray and thank God for your VICTORY, KIKIKI VICTORY and next time Chipolopolo is playing don’t attend because you carrying iminyama.
Very good walasa-he is a bad luck thief, he should not be attending, let him spend his time at state house drinkig kachasu with his grand mother Ester he calls wife-idiotto!
God, Answer Our Prayer Soon.
Self claimed president, God, Reverse the Zambian Presidency, give Us the Real Owner of it, this is HH.
Shame on you, you stole the votes, only fools will recognize him.
It s true ni kateka wapayeiframa nt noth wst pw nt sathn pw nt barotseland kauvela 1 day freedom we are still watching de gme zambia dnt belong pf kikiki?
Ka president ka luntuku (kachasu), aka fake-waba aka lufumo nga Tona!
We can never recognise thieves, your fellow rif raffs in pfools will recognise you!