{"id":72787,"date":"2025-05-01T23:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chabinga-chabinga-pf-throws-out-mafinga-mp-like-a-used-campaign-poster"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T23:32:05","slug":"chabinga-chabinga-pf-throws-out-mafinga-mp-like-a-used-campaign-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/chabinga-chabinga-pf-throws-out-mafinga-mp-like-a-used-campaign-poster","title":{"rendered":"\u201cChabinga Chabinga! 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The post, which PF claims was written without consultation or even a courtesy WhatsApp message, left the party leadership choking on their nshima.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a party, we were shocked. We thought maybe his account was hacked or he was dreaming in broad daylight,\u201d said a senior PF official who asked to remain anonymous, \u201cbut when he endorsed HH for 2026? Aah, that one finished us. That\u2019s political witchcraft!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the now-viral letter, PF accuses Chabinga of \u201cgross misconduct\u201d, a charge which in PF\u2019s dictionary includes:<\/p>\n<p>Thinking aloud on Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Cozying up to the President in power<\/p>\n<p>And most importantly, confusing the grassroots who still think UPND stands for \u201cUnder PF Negotiation Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PF has since written to both the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Electoral Commission of Zambia, asking them to begin procedures to delete Chabinga like expired talk time officially declaring the Mafinga seat vacant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe campaigned in green but now dances to red. That\u2019s betrayal of the highest order!\u201d cried out a PF youth from Mafinga, visibly upset, holding a faded 2021 campaign poster of Chabinga smiling with a hoe.<\/p>\n<p>With by-election winds now blowing in Mafinga, and political temperatures rising like December ZESCO bills, one thing is clear in Zambian politics, the drama never ends, and the alliances are shakier than a ZNS-constructed road during rainy season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zambia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. In what political analysts are calling a \u201cKasama-style eviction,\u201d the Patriotic Front (PF) has fired its Mafinga MP, Robert Chabinga, faster than you can say \u201calliance denied.\u201d In a letter stamped, sealed, and no doubt delivered with a frown, PF Secretary General His Honourable Raphael Nakacinda informed Chabinga that he had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-72787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>\u201cChabinga Chabinga! 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