By BRIAN HATYOKA –
PATRIOTIC Front (PF) Secretary General Davies Chama has predicted that President Edgar Lungu will get more than 60 per cent of votes in the 2016 general elections.
Mr Chama said President Lungu was expected to record a landslide victory of about 65 per cent in next year’s elections because of his massive agenda to rebuild and transform the country.
The PF secretary general, who is currently on a party mobilisation tour of Southern Province, was speaking in Livingstone on Sunday night when he featured on Falls FM Radio Station.
“President Lungu and PF will win by 65 per cent next year. PF has a committed leadership and what they have done is touchable and can be seen.
“The President is committed to improving the country and Zambians should just be patient because employment opportunities are coming,” he said.
Mr Chama, who received about 200 defectors from United Party for National Development (UPND) in Livingstone and got a thunderous welcome in Zambia’s tourist capital, said the PF Government had paid farmers promptly and ensured early distribution of farming inputs unlike the previous Governments.
He also denied claims that he told opposition political parties to urinate into Kariba Dam so that the country could have enough water to generate electricity.
Mr Chama further dismissed claims that PF had already started political campaigns for 2016 as no one in the ruling party was addressing public meetings.
“It is some opposition parties that are daring the police and holding public meetings without permits and this is unacceptable.
“I have informed the police about all the meetings I have been holding but the opposition have the propensity to break the law,” he said.
Mr Chama noted with sadness that some organisations were not remitting taxes to Government and were in turn accusing the State of prosecuting them when follow-ups were made on them.
He also said the PF was not using public resources in its operations as all funds were raised from members and well-wishers.
“We don’t use public resources. Government has a lot of things to be done from tax payers’ money such as repairing roads.
“Here in Livingstone, I was received by about 50 cars from party supporters. The PF leadership in Livingstone under the chairperson Lawrence Evans is doing a commendable job and it is not true that it is divided,” he said.
Speaking earlier when he addressed PF supporters at Livingstone Lodge on Sunday, Mr Chama  reiterated that the ruling party was expected to win the elections in 2016 and beyond up to 2064.
PF Central Committee member Syacheye Madyenkuku said he had no intentions of contesting for any parliamentary seat in Southern Province.
Mr Madyenkuku, however, said he would help in identifying candidates that could be fielded as Members of Parliament and councillors.
PF central committee member Paul Moonga saluted the ruling party for taking development to all parts of the country.