Why does the voter register displayed on the ECZ website, marked 2025, show just over seven million registered voters, while the Commission publicly announced a figure exceeding 8.8 million? A discrepancy of more than 1.7 million voters is not a rounding error. It is not a footnote.
UNITE OR LOSE
If we are to get Zambia back to pro-poor governance, people-centred development, and household-focused economic growth, it will not happen in an environment of acute opposition disunity. Please, this is not classroom ideology. This is real arithmetic data.
LUBINDA PLEDGES TO BACK FLAG BEARER TO BE CHOSEN IN FEBRUARY
Lubinda publicly pledged allegiance to the party founded by Michael Chilufya Sata, to the Patriotic Front as stewarded by Edgar Chagwa Lungu, and to the Tonse Alliance, which he reminded the gathering was established to strengthen unity among opposition forces.
KASAMA GOES TO THE POLLS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN
In this Kasama scope, the smallest wards include Lusenga with 2,486 registered voters, Musowa with 3,199, Kapanda with 3,382, Chumba with 3,568, and Lualuo with 3,603. These numbers are real, but their weight is limited. Allowing early returns from small wards to dominate public conversation creates perfect cover for mischief, hidden behind manufactured momentum while the major wards remain outstanding.
DATA, NOT SENTIMENT, WILL DECIDE THE 2026 ELECTIONS
Elections are not won by emotion or sentiment alone. I hope this reflection awakens the opposition otherwise we should be honest enough to admit that another five years of UPND governance is a real possibility - UNLESS!
MAKEBI ZULU’S HOMECOMING SENDS TREMORS THROUGH UPND POLICE
Clearly, Makebi Zulu gives the UPND regime sleepless nights. His homecoming today, 19 January 2026, was no different. For the first time since surviving a serious road traffic accident in December, Makebi Zulu returned to his home in Malambo Constituency.
CHAWAMA’S CLEAR MESSAGE: ONLY OPPOSITION UNITY CAN UNMASK A POLISHED BUT FRAGILE REGIME
Collaboration, dialogue, and negotiated consensus are not signs of weakness, they are strategic necessities if a credible alternative is to emerge.
A CHAT WITH A POLITICIAN – A MUST READ FOR POLITICAL LEADERS AHEAD OF 2026 GENERAL ELECTIONS
PF’s performance in Southern Province has historically been marginal, at times falling below one percent, with humiliating vote gaps in certain by-elections. The conclusion is unavoidable. Southern Province is not where elections are won for the opposition. Pretending otherwise is strategic fantasy.
A MESSAGE FROM EDGAR CHAGWA LUNGU’S HOME IN CHAWAMA
The results make the deeper story unavoidable. FDD, backed by PF, obtained 8,085 votes. CF secured 1,534. Independent candidates together collected 894. NCP added 319. EPPP contributed 239. LM had 100. NDC recorded 93. When these opposition votes are placed together, they total 11,264. UPND managed 6,542.
RED FLAG: ECZ NUMBERS DO NOT TALLY
As we approach the 2026 general elections here in Zambia, I would like to urge opposition political parties to not only run emotionally driven campaigns with nice slogans and danceable music. They must invest heavily in data and systems if they are to avoid being shocked on 13 August. On election day, it is not slogans that decide outcomes. It is numbers.