UPND Should Force HH To Retire From Politics -Mwaliteta

OBVIOUS Mwaliteta says the UPND should force its leader Hakainde Hichilema to retire from politics because he is becoming a liability to the opposition political party.
Commenting on the PF’s victory in Mulobezi, Mwaliteta, who was leading the campaign team in Machile, said the UPND was no longer attractive to people. “They should just go back to the drawing board and start thinking of dissolving that party and start a new UPND with new people. They should change the top leadership; they should tell Hakainde to retire and leave other members who will see sense in the One Zambia, One Nation motto. He (Hakainde) is a liability to them,” Mwaliteta said. He said if the top leadership of UPND was changed, it might change people’s perception of being a regional party. Mwaliteta said with the current leadership, the UPND would find it very difficult to win the 2016 general elections. “If you lose three by-elections and you are only remaining with eight months before the general elections, how do you recover? What makes a good president are not riches but humbleness,” he said.
Mwaliteta, who is also Lusaka Province minister, said Zambians had now seen that they could only get development from the PF government hence the victories in Mulobezi, Petauke and Malambo. “Zambians are thirsty for development and have now realised that they can only get development from the PF government, which has assured massive infrastructure development in the country, which was lacking,” he said.
“Zambians have confidence in the PF hence the results of the parliamentary by-elections…. The message is clear and we are very committed to making sure that development reaches the furthest of this country; to the poor of the poorest.” Mwaliteta said it was sad that the Mulobezi by-elections were marred by violent incidents. “I know the UPND very well in that if they know that they will lose, they resort to violence and I thank God that I was not there because they would have given an excuse to say it is Mwaliteta.
I was saved by an illness,” he said. Mwaliteta added that today the people of Mulobezi were travelling in comfort instead of being bundled up in the same train carriages with livestock as was the case during the MMD government.
He said Mulobezi was too poor to vote for an opposition member of parliament, who would just go to Parliament and drink tea and get an allowance without facilitating any development.