Dear Editor,WHEN he was elected to finish the unfinished and unexpired tenure of the late President Michael Sata, President Edgar Lungu was almost the victim of a “constitutional coup” as some people wanted to use the subjective interpretation of the Constitution to prematurely cut short his tenure.Even at the height of the stale eligibility debate which has been put to rest, we consistently stood our ground that the eligibility of President Lungu was no longer a legal or Constitutional debate but a political issue.The political lenses of some people who were intimidated by the candidature of President Lungu had taken advantage of their high esteem to recruit the gullible Zambians into believing that he was not eligible to seek a second term of office.At face value, we had thought the eligibility debate was in good faith until it became clear that it was a political shortcut to eliminate competition on the political front.We later abandoned […]
STALE ELIGIBILITY DEBATE PUT TO REST
