Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:29:40 +0000 Dear Editor, The front page story, “Stop this nonsense”, (Daily Nation, March 8, 2017), being narrowly about the MMD-demanded compulsion by the party’s youths for the PF government to step in and tell the UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema to ‘stop the nonsense’ of spreading rumours that there was going to be a new president installed in the country, understandably doesn’t give a complete picture of the UPND’s post-election scenario. As it stands, this MMD youths’ limitation omits the strategic and political motivations influencing the UPND strategic shift in theemotive aftermath of the 2016 general elections. Even though, I am no keen game player, in the name game called blame game, the aggrieved parties on both sides of the PF-MMD electoral alliance, invested minimal efforts in a need for a vote recount for Southern Province or subjecting a random sample of all UPND suspected under-age first-time voters in Southern Province […]
