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Sata still living in past glory - Nevers

COMMENT - Nevers Mumba is useless and clueless. Not only did they commit near treason by taking their newfound opposition status international, trying to besmirch the reputation of Zambia by alleging corruption and nepotism, but they have no way of explaining why the people aren't ready to return to sellouts to the mining industry. The MMD has had 20 years, and when they have been without an ideology for just as long. The Movement for Multi-Party Democracy achieved a return to multi-party democracy 20 years ago. It is not enough to run on, if you don't have a compelling economic strategy that puts the people at the center, not your ability to take bribes from the mines. Useless.

Sata still living in past glory - Nevers
By Moses Kuwema
Wed 04 July 2012, 13:25 CAT

MMD president Nevers Mumba says President Michael Sata is still living in his past glory when he was an opposition leader. And Mumba has advised President Sata's ministers to kneel before God and ask for forgiveness, instead of kneeling before voters.

Reacting to President Sata's statement that the MMD would never rule again, Mumba challenged President Michael Sata to call for an early election and see how he would be beaten hands down. Mumba said President Sata lacked the statesmanship that was required of a head of state.

"If he has any doubt about us coming back to power, I challenge him, he is the President, he has got constitutional powers to call for an election next month as long as it is within five years. Let him call for an election within maybe next month if he wants and by God's grace I will beat him hands down. Let him do it," Mumba said.

Mumba wondered where President Sata was basing his analysis by saying that the MMD would never return to power.

"He is only one person, one vote. The Zambians have a mandate to make or remove a President and I can dare him today to say let him call for an election if he is a man and he is going to lose it and I will win it hands down. And these are facts that I want to present to him. He is still living in yesterday's glory when he was opposition leader and everybody was clapping for him, following him. At that time they had not seen him do anything they hoped he could. Now that he is in power nine months and 90 days gone, the Zambian people have fully decided that they made a mistake and that is why we are doing what we are doing, reorganising ourselves to ensure that we prepare ourselves for government," Mumba said.

And commenting on President Sata's statement that he Mumba has never been a councillor before and could not just rise from nowhere and become president, Mumba advised the President to deal with the issues that would move the country forward.

"The issue of whether I have been a councillor before does not arise in the running for the presidency of the country. Maybe the problem we have with the President is that since he was the councillor and all that he talks about, maybe it reduced him to a cadre. The statesmanship that is required to be president is obviously missing from his life. There is very little of a presidential stature in him and I think that we are paying a very high price as Zambia as a result of his lack of statesmanship," he said.

Mumba said President Sata must appreciate that to become President, someone had to have the necessary experience to serve the Zambian people.

He said President Sata did not have the experience that he Mumba had of ministering to the nation for more than 10 years through broadcast TV.

On President Sata's directive to his ministers to kneel during a rally in Livingstone on Monday, Mumba said that was a mockery of the Zambian people and they were not interested in it.

Mumba said the problem of PF was not whether they knelt or not but that they had a serious moral and confidence deficit as a government.

He said the PF while in opposition promised Zambians a lot of things and they had never apologised to the Zambians for failing to fulfil those promises.

"It does not matter how many times they kneel; in the absence of them fulfilling their promises they are just wasting the skin of their knees, in terms of how Zambians view it. It is very sad that President Sata and his ministers are now kneeling for votes when they actually need to kneel before God and ask Him to forgive them for having lied to the Zambian people," he said.

And on President Sata's advice to George Kunda's widow, Ireen that she should mourn her husband instead of politicking, Mumba said the President does not have respect for widows and women in general.

Mumba called on ministers in President Sata's government to prevail over him and advise him against what he termed as insulting widows.

"He is so insensitive to widows, women, the way he talks to them and we would like his own members to talk to him because it is going to injure all of them," said Mumba.

Labels: MICHAEL SATA, NEVERS MUMBA

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