MMD CHIFUBU CANDIDATE DISMISSES CAMPAIGN CLAIMS

Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Chifubu Parliamentary aspiring Candidate Frank Ngambi has refuted allegations by the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) that he is campaigning for PF president Michael Sata in Chifubu constituency.

Mr Ngambi told ZANIS Ndola in a telephone interview that assertions by some opposition PF members that he is campaigning for Mr Sata were a ploy to de-campaign him and make him unpopular among the MMD.

He explained that PF cadres have assured him that they would vote for him as area MP adding that the cadres have fallen out of favour with their party adopted parliamentary candidate Susan Kawandami and have vowed to vote for him as MP.

He said reports that he is in agreement with them to campaign for him at MP level and Mr Sata at Presidential level were untrue.

“You have got it all wrong, those reports that I am in an agreement with them are not true, I am campaigning for President Rupiah Banda right there in Chifubu, I have all the blue campaign material all over in Chifubu, if I was de-campaigning the President would I have distributed the materials? I would have just left them at my house” he said.

Mr Ngambi added that he is confident that Chifubu will this time around vote for President Rupiah Banda.

“I can not de-campaign the President, in Chifubu I am his campaign manager, that information from PF is not true, they want to de-campaign me,” he said.

He further said the people of Chifubu had seen for themselves the developmental projects that the MMD government under the leadership of President Banda had embarked on.

And in a separate interview,  MMD Ndola District acting Chairman Bruno Mukeya said no parliamentary candidate in Ndola was de-campaigning President Rupiah Banda.

Mr Mukeya said the allegations in Chifubu were not true and added that no MMD candidate in Ndola could go to the extent of de-campaigning their own president in order to win a parliamentary seat.

He said the district officials had gone flat out in wards and were vigorously campaigning for President Rupiah Banda.

Mr Mukeya said as a district executive, the MMD was confident that the party would scoop all the four parliamentary seats in the district and that the President Banda would also emerge victorious on September 20.

Meanwhile, some MMD officials have advised Chifubu parliamentary candidate Frank Ngambi to critically scrutinise the people in his campaign team.

The officials said Mr Ngambi’s campaign team comprises certain individuals that were not loyal to the MMD.

Some concerned MMD Chifubu residents last week complained that Mr Ngambi was reportedly to have agreed with PF cadres to campaign and vote for him as area MP and Mr Sata as President.

ZANIS