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Earlier we printed a video throughout submitting in of nominations in Kawambwa the place the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) was refusing to simply accept the nomination papers of the New Congress Party below the Tonse Alliance.

The officers mentioned they wanted to make session to whoever they didn’t point out. After a protracted argument, the NCP filed in efficiently and was informed to report tomorrow at 10AM.

Here is a model of the Tonse Alliance of what occurred and the way ECZ is making an attempt to knockout the opposition alliance candidate from Kawambwa by-election.

TONSE ALLIANCE STATEMENT ON THE FILING IN OF A NOMINATION IN THE KAWAMBWA PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION

Kawambwa, twenty first November 2024

1. As TONSE ALLIANCE, now we have, this morning, efficiently filed within the nomination of our candidate, Mr. Danstan Mwansa, within the Kawambwa Parliamentary By-election. This parliamentary seat fell vacant after the incumbent MP, Hon. Nickson Chilangwa was unduly incarcerated on trumped up fees. He is at the moment serving a jail sentence at Mukobeko Maximum Prison.

2. However, the submitting in of our nomination was not with out incident. On graduation of the nomination course of, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) produced a printout, allegedly from the Registrar of Societies, which confirmed completely different workplace holders for the TONSE ALLIANCE member and most popular platform, New Congress Party (NCP), and fully omitted the Party President Mr. Peter Chanda. ECZ then claimed that the officeholders for NCP are completely different to those that had signed the Adoption Certificate, and that on that foundation, they’d not settle for our nomination.

3. However, the TONSE ALLIANCE was in a position to produce annual returns for NCP for the previous 10 years, which clearly confirmed the legit officeholders for the New Congress Party, who included President Peter Chanda. The TONSE ALLIANCE additionally identified that the so-called printout produced by ECZ had the title of the get together written in pen, whereas the alleged officer holders have been printed. In addition, the alleged ECZ printout confirmed that it was printed on twenty first May 2024, which is about 7 months in the past. We due to this fact informed ECZ that their alleged printout was not present and will belong to any group and never NCP. We additional knowledgeable ECZ that for the previous 10 years, Cabinet Office had been sending letters of invitation for nationwide occasions, to Mr. Peter Chanda, in his capability as Party President of the New Congress Party. Therefore, it was out of order for ECZ to provide unknown people as officeholders of the New Congress Party.

4. After a chronic heated dialogue, the Electoral Commission of Zambia was left with no choice however to permit the nomination of the TONSE ALLIANCE Candidate standing on the NCP ticket, Mr. Danstan Mwansa, to proceed. The nomination course of was finalized and the Returning Officer, Mr. O. Siwila, declared the TONSE ALLIANCE Candidate as duly nominated at 11:16hrs.

5. However, the TONSE ALLIANCE has obtained disturbing info that the Electoral Commission of Zambia headquarters in Lusaka, has instructed the Returning Officer within the Kawambwa Parliamentary by-election, to nullify the nomination of our duly nominated candidate, Mr. Danstan Mwansa, for unknown causes. We are at the moment searching for to confirm this info, however we want to warn and warning ECZ to not take us, and by extension, the Zambian folks with no consideration. Zambia is a constitutional democracy and all of us have a proper to take part within the nation’s electoral course of. We shall preserve the nation knowledgeable of any new developments on this matter, however be relaxation assured that the TONSE ALLIANCE is firmly on this Kawambwa race. Thank you.

ISSUED BY:

Sean E. Tembo
PeP President and TONSE ALLIANCE Spokesperson
Kawambwa, Zambia.

On the image PF Vice president Given Lubinda led the Tonse Alliance after submitting in.