By GIDEON NYENDWATHE era of using defections strategy by political parties to show popularity is long gone and UPND should avoid it because this is what caused PF to lose as they were comforted by fake numbers, Political scientist, Alex Ngoma has warned.Dr Ngoma, who is a political science lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA), said UPND should be careful of using the defectors’ strategy because the purported defectors were all “warm” weather politicians who migrate from where they think it was cold to look for warmer places.Dr. Ngoma said those people who migrate from one party to another, do soafter realising that they had nothing to gain from there.He was reacting to the reported defection of over 100 members of the PF to the ruling UPND in Lusaka’s Kabwata constituency on Sunday.He said that those kinds of people who defect from one party to another were not genuine members to be embraced by […]
UPND cautioned against defections strategy
