SATA REITERATES ILL HEALTH DENIAL

Patriotic Front Leader Michael Sata has rubbished rumours that he collapsed while on his Western Province campaign trail saying he was aware that this was part of the scheme that the MMD has packaged to mislead voters as the country heads to presidential and general elections in the next 13 days.
Mr. Sata told a packed rally in Kaoma yesterday that this was mere propaganda hatched by the MMD who have created a team of State Security agents to mount a smear campaign to discredit him.
The PF is also in possession of information from highly placed OP contacts that the MMD has planned to unleash extensive publicity just before elections announcing that Mr. Sata has died.
Meanwhile, Mr Sata has described the opinion poll held by the Center for Policy Dialogue(CDP) as very right, but noted that elections were not held on the day the opinion poll was conducted.
Speaking in Lusaka on the opinion polls that predicated that President Rupiah Banda would win by 41 %, Mr Sata retorted that despite the poll predication, fortunately the elections were no held yesterday.
And Mr Sata says President Rupiah Banda cannot remove Chieftainess Nkomeshya from her throne.
Commenting on President Rupiah Banda’s threats against the Chieftainess on Saturday when he addressed a rally in Chongwe, Mr Sata says Zambia under president Banda is drifting back to the federation days were chiefs who opposed federation were suspended or dethroned.
Mr Sata tells QFM in an interview that Chiefs in the country should wake and be counted following President Banda’s threats to Chieftainess Nkomeshya.
He says the chiefs should speak out like Chief Nalubamba has done, stating that touching one chief means touching all traditional leaders.
 [PF Press Release]