The ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Lusaka has echoed calls that Defense Minister Geoffrey Mwamba discloses the names of the members of a purported clique in the ruling party that is plotting against President Michael Sata to stand for presidency in 2016.
Mr. Mwamba has been recently quoted in the media to have said that the said clique of alleged senior members of the party had already started positioning itself for the position of president and that the clique also allegedly wants to derail President Sata’s plans to continue ruling and developing the nation.
The PF Lusaka District leadership has charged that if Mr. Mwamba who is also PF Kasama Member of Parliament has the names of the members of the said Clique in the ruling party he should be bound to reveal their names as having such a clique in the party is a danger.
District chairperson Goodson Banda says such an alleged clique can not be allowed to exist in the ruling party because President Sata is the sole candidate to take part in the 2016 presidential election and that his candidature is non negotiable.
Mr. Banda has also urged the senior PF party leadership to take such a revelations seriously and engagement Mr. Mwamba so that investigations can be instituted to ascertain existence of such a clique which as he has described as one playing cheap politics.
The PF Lusaka District chairperson was speaking in an interview with Qfm.