UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema addressing media from his residence.
UPND President Hakainde Hichilema has accused the country’s election mangers the Electoral Commission of Zambia of deliberately not providing the G12 in Lusaka so as to live room for manipulation of results.
Mr Hichilema who spoke at a media briefing held at his house around 22:40hrs Sunday, said the G12 sheet is the only proscribed document which is the legal requirement used for recording ” the will of the people.”
He said nothing can replace the G12 document which is supposed to be used to authenticate the results and that the document was deliberately left out in Lusaka so that the ECZ in collusion with the ruling PF can wait for results from other provinces and use the Lusaka vote to compensate for any deficits.
He wondered how G12 can not be available in Lusaka where the ECZ is located adding that some polling stations are a stone’s throw from ECZ offices.
He explained that the omission was a deliberate move made to secure votes for the PF saying events in some polling stations point to that fact.
He further claimed that PF cadres took over polling stations shortly after the close of polling further adding that some cadres were voting more than twice while others went to vote with premarked ballots in their pockets.
He also accused the ECZ of trying to promote instability in the country by colluding with the PF to take away the decision of Zambians.
Mr Hichilema has since vowed not accept the results describing the process and results as a coup on democracy by those who control the army.
He said he will fight for Zambians and called on well meaning Zambians to fight with him.
And President Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front has maintained the lead in Presidential Election Results from 132 constituencies out of the 156 constituencies country wide.
Electoral Commission of Zambia -ECZ- Chairperson Justice Esau Chulu has so far announced that Mr. Lungu has 1,454,165.
His closest rival Hakainde Hichilema of United Party for National Development now has 1,383,594
The margin stands at 70,571 votes
ECZ is yet to announce results from 24 constituencies and the next update is scheduled at 06:30 hours this morning.
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