{"id":36827,"date":"2022-12-21T23:13:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality"},"modified":"2022-12-21T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:34:51","slug":"president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT HICHILEMA\u2019S MAKE BELIEVE REALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>In responding to the press conference held by the Republican President yesterday, We surmise that President Hichilema lives in his \u201cOWN MAKE BELIEVE REALITY\u201d far removed from the actual realities facing our people.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidents obsession with the PF is now alarming. The President cannot continue to make PF a standard of his governance and economic success. The people of Zambia said it all on his behalf when they voted the PF out of power. The President should lead the Nation now.<\/p>\n<p>President Hichilema dodged every question asked by the journalists. He did not effectively answer questions on; harmonising his campaign promises, barotseland, high cost of living, impact of load shedding, China, mopani, kansanshi, kcm and fertiliser distribution etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his usual style, The President took the journalists and the Nation on a wild goose chase to conceal his true thoughts or the lack of if on those key National matters and raised more questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Presidents \u201cmake believe reality\u201d it\u2019s only his thinking that is true and any other reality is not no matter how it hurts our people. The President only listens to himself and the Cabinet only listens to him. We truly fear for the future of our people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. In responding to the press conference held by the Republican President yesterday, We surmise that President Hichilema lives in his \u201cOWN MAKE BELIEVE REALITY\u201d far removed from the actual realities facing our people. The Presidents obsession with the PF is now alarming. The President cannot continue to make PF a standard of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-36827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PRESIDENT HICHILEMA\u2019S MAKE BELIEVE REALITY - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In responding to the press conference held by the Republican President yesterday, We surmise that President Hichilema li ...\" \/>\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\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PRESIDENT HICHILEMA\u2019S MAKE BELIEVE REALITY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In responding to the press conference held by the Republican President yesterday, We surmise that President Hichilema li ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\" \/>\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=\"2022-12-21T23:13:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-21T23:34:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671651871.11.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PRESIDENT HICHILEMA\u2019S MAKE BELIEVE REALITY\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-21T23:13:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-21T23:34:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671651871.11.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hichilemas-make-believe-reality\",\"name\":\"PRESIDENT HICHILEMA\u2019S MAKE BELIEVE REALITY - 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