UPND TO ANNOUNCE PARLIAMENTARY ADOPTEES TODAY

UPND Vice President, Richard Kapita says the party will today announce its 150 adopted parliamentary and local government candidates for the forthcoming general elections.

Mr Kapita says his party’s delay in announcing the adopted parliamentary candidates was a strategy to stop other political parties from picking its members who have not been adopted.

He has claimed that the party decided to take time to announce the adopted candidates because it knew the ruling MMD would have had approached its members to bribe them to join the party.

Mr Kapita has further said that the list of adopted candidates to be announced will be the genuine one unlike speculations on some candidates who have not even been adopted by the party.

He has since argued that the party was transparent in its adoption process, noting that it ensured that the seats were allocated to credible candidates.

Yesterday, the civil society expressed concern over the opposition parties secrecy in announcing their adoptees.