MAKEBI – MUNDUBILE UNITY:
A Get-Together Without Vision, A Temporary Alliance Of Political Ambition and Greed
By Wiseman Henry Zulu
The coming together of the two PF members doesn’t mean the party has discovered a new vision.
It has simply gathered its old ambitions, old fights and old political culture into one room — hoping Zambians will mistake desperation for leadership.
That is the clearest picture emerging from the much-publicized “unity” between Makebi Zulu and Brian Mundubile is just two ambitious camps preparing to be politically humiliated together by Hakainde Hichilema in the August election.
For all the noise surrounding this alliance, one truth remains unavoidable — these men were never politically apart in the first place.
They belonged to the same PF establishment, defended the same political machinery and operated around the same interests. What separated them was never ideology or vision. It was greed, ego, personal ambition and the fight for control.
Now they want Zambians to believe that standing on one platform changes everything.
But changes what exactly?
How does Mundubile suddenly become presidential material because of a unity announcement? And equally, how does Makebi imagine that media visibility automatically places him in presidential contention?
Even before this alliance settles, cracks are already visible.
Makebi allegedly admitted publicly that there is still no agreement on who between him and Mundubile should stand as presidential candidate. That statement alone exposed the arrangement for what it truly is — not unity of purpose, but a temporary alliance of political ambition.
Because real unity settles leadership first.
What Zambia is witnessing instead is a gathering of politicians still fighting for the top seat while pretending to offer national direction.
The same greed and pomp that fractured PF before are still fully alive. Nothing has been resolved. The battles have merely been paused for cameras and headlines.
That is why many citizens are not buying into the excitement.
PF has not reinvented itself. It has simply reunited with itself — carrying the same baggage of arrogance, internal confusion, corruption allegations and endless leadership wrangles that pushed voters away in 2021.
Even now, before presenting a serious national agenda, the loudest debate within the alliance is already about who should become president.
That alone tells the story.
Meanwhile, President Hakainde Hichilema continues governing, driving economic recovery, infrastructure development and institutional reforms.
While the PF negotiates positions and fights over candidature, HH continues strengthening his political standing through delivery.
And that is the trap Makebi and Mundubile appear not to see.
By coming together without resolving the same egos and internal power struggles that destroyed PF before, they risk collapsing together under the same political pressure they are trying to escape individually.
What is being marketed as “unity” increasingly is actually of survival pact between politicians who understand that standing alone against HH would be politically more fatal. They would rather be defeated together.
ENDS/14/05/2025
WISEMAN HENRY ZULU
Director – Digital Media
UPND Media/ Presidential Support System