PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu�s conduct in Uganda was humiliating and has brought embarrassment to the rest of Zambia, says Positive Action on Human Rights Freedom and Development executive director Bright Jalila.Speaking when he arrived in Uganda where he had gone to attend President Yoweri Museveni�s inauguration for his fifth term in office, President Lungu told the opposition in the country to accept the outcome of the controversial elections.
President Lungu further mocked the opposition leaders to change their candidates because they had failed to win any election in the past.
�There can only be one winner. After you win, you perform. So you allow your friend who has won to perform. When another election comes, you will have a go at it. If your party has got a president and he keeps losing, substitute him for somebody who can win; that is the message...If you have a football club, you can�t use only one striker who doesn�t score. My advice to them [opposition] is to accept the win and also change the striker because he has failed to score for all these years he has been on the football ground,� said President Lungu.
The Head of State�s remarks however sparked immediate rage among Ugandans who took turns insulting him and posting derogatory remarks on social media.
�Take your idiocy back to Zambia, you stupid drunkard�, Hellen Amanyire commented on the Daily Monitor website that published President Lungu�s statement.
Onyokor Gregory wrote: �I think the Zambian President #Lungu should be taken to Butabika Hospital for medical check-up... Lungu you would be better served if you stuck to drinking your enguli. You come to wine and dine with Mcheveni at the expense of poor Ugandan taxpayers and then you tell us what to do - No No No!!!�
Martin Trust Dolindo: �He should know that this is Uganda not Zambia, he should take his big mouth back to his country because he doesn�t know what he has come to witness.�
Obasanjo Lutwama Martin: �Such a donkey which has come to be grazed in Uganda.�
Sameul Muhima: �I am told that President has started witchcraft worship in Zambia, he got that tip from his Ugandan counterpart, how dare he comes to this nation and open his filthy mouth.�
Bogere Charton: �This pig doesn�t know that in Uganda, the minority oppress the majority.�
Commenting on President Lungu trip to Uganda, Jalila said the Head of State caused an embarrassing diplomatic incident.
�The statement he made was very regrettable because it angered people in that country. It�s shameful for Zambians who understand what transpired in that country. Many Ugandans still have problems in the manner the election of their President was done and instead of him going to counsel the people, he tells them to accept defeat without understanding the dispute by the opposition, that was really embarrassing for him and for Zambia. Look how they rose and insulted him; it�s embarrassing,� Jalila said.
�There was no diplomacy in the statement he made. It shows that he is an undiplomatic leader. That statement should have been uttered in Mandevu at a rally, then we would have understood but him going to that country without being sensitive to the political tension that elections bring. People may rise in arms and there is nothing he can do.�
Jalila said people in leadership positions must be sensitive because everything they say attract a lot of attention from people around the world.
�It demonstrates how desperate he is to win the elections in August�and all he wanted was to please his counterpart at the expense of the citizens who were not happy about the elections. It was not wise for him as a leader to provoke a situation that he cannot calm or control. It is very undemocratic,� said Jalila.
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