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(LUSAKATIMES) Hichilema will regret declining Pact offer when it’s late—Mumbi

Hichilema will regret declining Pact offer when it’s late—Mumbi
Monday, December 6, 2010, 8:20

FORMER opposition Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Edward Mumbi has said United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema will only realise the reality of the UPND-MMD alliance talks when he is left alone in the party.

And the MMD in Southern Province has urged the UPND national leadership to accept the wishes of the members at the grassroots to go into a pact with the ruling party.

Mr Mumbi said it was imperative that Mr Hichilema carried out thorough investigations to get the feelings and the mood of his party membership at lower organs regarding the alliance with the ruling MMD before refuting the statements in the media or else, he would wake up to a rude shock to find that he was a lone president.

Mr Mumbi was reacting to a statement in the media where Mr Hichilema had allegedly denied that his party was in talks to enter into an alliance with the MMD.

But Mr Hichilema said he could not respond to Mr Mumbi because he did not deserve his response.

“Mr Mumbi does not deserve my response, so I can’t respond to his statement,” Mr Hichilema said.

Denying the statement by MMD parliamentary chief whip Vernon Mwaanga that there were talks for an alliance between the UPND and MMD, Mr Hichilema said the announcement was a lie, saying all UPND MPs signed the letters to state the position that they were not for the idea of the alliance between the MMD and UPND.

But in an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Mumbi said media reports that UPND was engaged in talks with MMD at a lower level were true and Mr Hichilema should not brush them aside.

[Times of Zambia]

Labels: EDWARD MUMBI, HAKAINDE HICHILEMA, PF, PF-UPND, UPND

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