Davies Chama
Patriotic Front (PF) secretary general Davies Chama says he had a warm relationship with late President Michael Sata contrary to assertions by opposition Democratic Front (DF) leader Miles Sampa that the late president fired him from the party.
Yesterday, during a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, Sampa challenged the media to ask Chama to tell the nation why Sata fired him from the party.
But Chama explained that it was not the late president who fired him when he served as the party’s Lusaka Province chairperson but the former secretary general Wynter Kabimba following a dispute.
He revealed that it was actually Sata who reinstated him and appointed him Lusaka Province chairperson.
“I had a close relationip with President Michael Sata, I want to put that on record that he never fired me from the party but Wynter Kabimba suspended me and it was during that time that president used to call me, wake me up to see him at statehouse that I differed with Wynter. I was the first person who took Wynter on, so Miles should not bring in the late president on this score. It was just a suspension and it was lifted,” Chama explained.
Chama asserts that the DF leader does not have the correct history over the relationship that he enjoyed with Sata.
And Chama says he can’t blame Kafue Member of Parliament Obvious Mwaliteta for his utterances against the party because he is just a grade two drop out.
He charged that Mwaliteta is bitter and angry because he does not have the grade 12 certificate to enable him re-contest the Kafue seat.
Chama says he hopes the Kafue legislator will not collapse on August 11 as a result of the PF winning the elections.
“Mwaliteta hasn’t left because the party is finished, but because he is bitter and angry. The man fought so hard to repeal the grade 12 section. Due to his humble education, he forgot to read the document he was voting for in Parliament so I can’t blame him.
He noted that Mwaliteta’s stay in the party made him feel guilty on account of his close relations with the former secretary general Wynter Kabimba adding that he has now shown his true colors by leaving the party.