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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader, Stephen Nyirenda has predicted that the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) administration is likely to lose the forth-coming Kabwata by-elections scheduled for 20th January, next year<\/p>\n

Mr. Nyirenda says indicators on the ground point to the fact that the new dawn administration in its one hundred days of governance has terribly failed to inspire. He says this has further been exacerbated by an increment in petrol products, which he claims has angered the voters.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Mr. Nyirenda charges President Hakainde Hichilema is not a man of his words having allowed his losing parliamentary candidates to petition the seats won by the Patriotic Front -PF-at the same time complaining of have inherited an empty national treasury. He adds Mr. Hichilema should have shown leadership by advising his losing candidates not to petition the seats to avoid costly by-elections.<\/p>\n

And the NAREP leader advises the Head of State to caution his party members to stay away from the works of the police stating that he was disturbed in the manner in which some UPND party cadres conducted themselves in the case of PF Chairperson in charge of Information and Publicity, Raphael Nakachinda.<\/p>\n

He describes the protests calling for Mr. Nakacinda\u2019s apprehension by UPND youths in the name of citizen\u2019s arrest was uncalled for. The NAREP leader was speaking when he was featured on Muvi tv\u2019s Special Interview, Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader, Stephen Nyirenda has predicted that the ruling United Party for National Development (UPND) administration is likely to lose the forth-coming Kabwata by-elections scheduled for 20th January, next year Mr. Nyirenda says indicators on the ground point to the fact that the new dawn administration in its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,8,10,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-12188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nUPND headed for defeat in the Kabwata By-Election-NAREP - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader, Stephen Nyirenda has predicted that the ruling United Party for Na ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPND headed for defeat in the Kabwata By-Election-NAREP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) leader, Stephen Nyirenda has predicted that the ruling United Party for Na ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-23T15:57:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-23T16:17:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/12\/img-61c4a0e0934da.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"UPND headed for defeat in the Kabwata By-Election-NAREP\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-23T15:57:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-23T16:17:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\"},\"wordCount\":258,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/12\/img-61c4a0e0934da.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/upnd-headed-for-defeat-in-the-kabwata-by-election-narep\",\"name\":\"UPND headed for defeat in the Kabwata By-Election-NAREP - 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