Charge HH with treason – Mangani

Mangani said whatever UPND former vice-president for politics Dr Canisius Banda advised should not be taken lightly. He qouted Dr Banda’s words and urged UPND to take his advice seriously on party organisation and mobilisation that was the only way their  would save the party from the current crisis.

He also said the UPND had it own wrong PVT, which was marred with inconsistenty and flaws.

He said some of the mistakes in the UPND PVT could have been made intentionally to project that possibly the party performed very well.

“But the best advice I would give is that let the UPND leadership possibly not open a Pandora’s Box by continuously talking about the elections. The elections are over, the president was declared by ECZ that he won the elections.

“If you start talking about elections, others will also start talking about how the UPND conducted elections in Southern province over the issue of PF polling agents who were chased from the polling stations,” he said.

Mangani who was a Minister  in MMD but now a staunch ruling Patriotic Front cadre, also wondered what the motive was for the UPND to have chased PF polling agents and threatened to kill them if they stayed around because there were no cameras.

He said the best medicine he could give to the UPND was to stop opening the Pandora’s Box, adding that the opposition shouldshould instead go back to the drawing board and start organising itself and aim for 2021.

He said claims by the UPND leadership of saying Edgar Lungu was not President was simply inviting problems because the Constitution was very clear on the matter.

“It means HH is trading on the lines of treason and if the police moves in, it will create a problem and they will think that the Government is being unfair. So at this stage I think the electoral issue should be buried,”  Mangani said.