CONCOURT PASSED A POLITICAL JUDGMENT, SO EDGAR LUNGU SHOULD FOCUS ON POLITICAL SOLUTION
Good evening.
The Constitutional Court should not delude itself that Zambians have bought its reasoning used and fashioned through legal justification to block Edgar Lungu from standing for President in 2026.
Objective minded citizens can trace the political motivations and machinations behind this scandalous decision by the Constitutional Court.
Here is a simple question for this bench to answer.
If former President Lungu is ineligible because of the matrics they weaved in the Constitutional provisions (both the 2016 and as amemded), then it means those same clauses should have caught him for the 2021 elections.
How is it that the same clauses qualified him for 2021, but these same clauses and conditions now make him ineligible?
The answer is simple. It is the political consideration of the ghastly consequences of finding him ineligible for 2021, which has resulted in the ConCourt passing what is quite an asinine judgment, if you apply common sense.
The Court has come out emphatically, rubbishing it’s own earlier finding regarding Lungu’s first 18 months in office as not constituting a full term.
Well, if they now say it was a full term and by 2021 Edgar Lungu had served his two full terms, then he was not eligible to stand in 2021. They should have then made a decision on it, as the Petitioner Michelo Chizombe had asked. But they simply brushed it aside because it was politically inconvenient.
John Sangwa was right. Declaring it so would have meant nullifying the presidential election result of August 2021. So the Concourt balked at this prospect because it would have thrown their boss out of office. Therefore, they have ended up with a political judgment which cannot fool anyone.
As the Zambian Whistleblower, we do not think former President Edgar Lungu will get justice from this Constitutional Court, for obvious reasons, even if we acknowledge his right to mount a legal challenge. In fact, the Deputy President of this Court, Arnold Shilimi should not even have been the one reading this judgment. He will after 2026 face the same fate as Annie Sitali, Mungeni Mulenga and Palan Mulonda..
Former President Lungu and the Patriotic Front (PF) should not see this as a defeat. It is the point at which they should mount the most vigorous campaign to deal with the kind of bad governance Zambia is currently experiencing, which has rendered such institutions as the Constitutional Court, unable to function effectively to safeguard the country’s democracy.
Let them focus on their Plan B. They now know the kind of solution that Zambia needs. The battle is political, not legal. One thing Edgsr Lungu should not tolerate in his Plan B is the thought of Boycotting the 2026 elections. First President Kenneth Kaunda made this mistake in 1996. That is how Frederick Chiluba became big headed. The United Nation Independent Party (UNIP) should not have shunned those elections.
Like accademician Sishuwa Sishuwa has already stated, Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front ( PF) should instead use the Rupiah Banda formula by identifying a candidate from the opposition to support. Such a candidate will stand a better chance of walloping the outgoing Dictator that Edgar Lungu himself.
Edgar Lungu could not have been President without Rupiah Banda. Even Levy Mwanawasa relied on Rupiah Banda to win the 2006 elections
Like Professor Nason Ngoma has already said, Presidents are made by the people through voting and not judges.
The Zambian Whistleblower insists on saying that the 2026 elections will be between Outgoing Dictator Hakainde Hichilema and the more wounded Edgsr Chagwa Lungu.
John 8:32 “And you will know the truth, and the truth wil set you free.”
Good Night.
©️ Zambian Whistleblower (ZWB).
CONCOURT PASSED A POLITICAL JUDGMENT, SO EDGAR LUNGU SHOULD FOCUS ON POLITICAL SOLUTION
