Easterners are slow starters, they’ll eventually join us – UPND

UPND deputy secretary general Patrick Mucheleka says Easterners are politically slow starters, but will eventually shift to his party once Edgar Lungu hands over the PF presidency. On Thursday, the Patriotic Front scooped the Kaumbwe Parliamentary seat with 6,633 votes, beating its closest rival UPND which polled 3,117 votes. And during the presidential elections in August this year, PF’s Edgar Lungu polled 10,728 votes in Kaumbwe against President Hakainde Hichilema’s 3,773 votes. Commenting on this in an interview, Mucheleka said people of Eastern Province always took time to come to terms with change in the political environment. “Let me tell you, if you understand the political environment on the way Eastern province behaves, it’s not anything new. They take a...