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Kavindele asks Chiluba to stop being antagonistic towards Sata

Kavindele asks Chiluba to stop being antagonistic towards Sata
By Patson Chilemba
Sun 30 May 2010, 04:40 CAT

ENOCH Kavindele has asked former president Frederick Chiluba to stop being antagonistic towards Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata.

Commenting on Chiluba’s campaigns for President Rupiah Banda, which have mainly been characterised by attacks on Sata’s personality, Kavindele advised Chiluba to restrict himself to the issues of development, which he always claimed were on the agenda prior to attending his “developmental meetings.”

He said he had noted Sata usually reacted because Chiluba attacked him during his development meetings.

“Whenever he Chiluba has made a political move, his former national secretary has reacted…my advice would be that if he becomes antagonistic, the others also use back the same language. He will just devalue his status because if you start exchanging words with someone as former head of state, those others have nothing to lose like him, including personal respectability,” Kavindele said.

“I am advising him that antagonism with antagonism. So he has a personal status to protect…I cannot certainly advise him to be antagonistic. He should maintain the status as former president, whilst at the same time supporting political players of his choice.”

Kavindele said Chiluba should not forget that just as much as he had friends, he also had enemies.
He asked Chiluba to put his health into consideration over the campaigns he had embarked on for President Rupiah Banda.

On President Banda’s relationship with Chiluba, Kavindele said Chiluba’s life had been hard since he left State House, and it seemed he had found comfort in President Banda.

However, Kavindele said Chiluba must be aware of the extent to which he could go in open politics.
“The law barring former presidents from involving themselves in politics does not state that former presidents cannot support the incumbent Presidents…therefore if he is seen to be publicly and openly involving himself in politics, then there is a law which certainly has its own consequences,” said Kavindele. “The law is very silent on things like that Chiluba’s campaigns for President Banda. When this law was enacted it was meant to stop former presidents going back into active politics, such as wanting to be president of a political party.”

Chiluba recently convened a ‘development meeting’ in Luapula Province at which he issued several personal attacks against Sata.

Chiluba did the same when he went to the Copperbelt to launch campaigns for President Banda under the guise of attending funerals.
Sata has also hit back whenever attacked by Chiluba.

Labels: ENOCH KAVINDELE, SATA

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