YOU HAVE FAILED – PF YOUTHS TELL GIVEN LUBINDA!
The Patriotic Front (PF) faction has called on acting President Given Lubinda to admit his failure to run the party.
Meanwhile, a consortium of Zambian youths organisations have warned that they will vote for the United Party for National Development (UPND) in the August 13, 2026 elections should the opposition continue to fight amongst themselves.
PF member Ibrahim Mwamba said Lubinda is a weak leader who has failed to hold the former ruling party together.
Mwamba pointed out that Lubinda lost the party to Robert Chabinga, and now he has lost the Tonse Alliance to Apostle Dr. Danny Pule.
Mwamba was speaking at a consortium of Youth Led Civil Society Organizations and Students leaders drawn from 10 universities across the country.
Mwamba said political battles continue to go against Lubinda while the party steadily loses relevance to the Zambians.
He said Zambians are looking for a mature politician to give credible checks and balances whilst giving practical alternative policy to President Hakainde Hichilema.
The youth leader expressed concern that currently, there is no genuine political party that is giving alternative policies on critical issues such as health, education, agriculture, the economy, and job- creation in the country.
“Whilst you are busy fighting among yourselves, President Hichilema is delivering development. Our party is busy fighting, and everyone wants to be a president. HH is ending loadshedding and bringing the dollar down,” Charged Mwamba.
Mwamba, who is also Southern Africa Students and Youth Development Association (SASYDA) President, has charged that the continued leadership wrangles in the PF have exposed deep rooted tribalism and selfishness among the top leadership of the former ruling party.
Mwamba said the PF’s prolonged failure to settle on a presidential candidate has also exposed deep-seated bad blood, tribalism, and selfish interests within the party.
Tribalism has left the PF disorganised and incapable of mounting any meaningful challenge to President Hakainde Hichilema.
The SASYDA leader observed that whilst the opposition is busy politicking and finger – pointing, President Hichilema was busy working.
He said it was shocking and embarrassing for a party that once governed the country to remain leaderless for four years.
“You have failed us. If you have failed to choose a leader, just tell us so that we know whether to vote for UPND. If by the end of January there is no leader, we will take over the party as youths,” Mwamba said.
Meanwhile, Mwamba has made clarion call to the former president Edgar Lungu’s family to sit with the government to resolve long standing impasse and see how best the former president could be buried in a dignified manner.
He said it was unacceptable to have the former president Edgar Lungu be buried in a foreign country.
The consortium of youth organisation has described the conduct of the opposition political parties in Zambia as disappointing and not what the Zambian people expected.
The movement has given the opposition an ultimatum of up to January month-end 2026 to sort out their issues and select a flag carrier who will lead them to the elections in August.
Speaking at the same joint media briefing, Generation Zambia President Jason Mwanza said the opposition are letting down the Zambian people who have put their hopes for a better Zambia in them.
Mwanza said opposition leaders are being selfish by putting their interests first instead of putting the interest of the Zambian people.
He has stated that the persistent confusion among opposition leaders is a clear sign that they have no regard for the Zambian people who were waiting upon them to elect a flag carrier for the 2026 general elections .
