Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:19:58 +0000 President Edgar Lungu yesterday led the way towards reconciliation in the ruling party by pardoning all the Patriotic Front renegades who rebelled after being left out in the adoption process, stood as Independents and won – terribly embarrassing its leadership. The 12 rebels who contested the August 11 election as Independents had been the subject of heated debate in the ruling party with the PF secretary general Davis Mwila ordering party leaders on the Copperbelt to ignore them completely by refusing to work with them at all levels of the party. The Members of Parliament, who have worked closely with the governing party in the National Assembly and helped the PF comfortably win some of the hotly contested divisions in the House which called for a vote, protested to President Lungu, appealing to him to convince his fellow leaders not to antagonise them, saying there was safety in […]
