TONSE Alliance faction vice-chairman Danny Pule has banned the use of PF regalia during the on-going Chawama parliamentary by-election and Kasama mayoral by-election for the alliance candidate. On Wednesday, Pule announced the removal of the PF from the alliance, citing internal disputes and prolonged ongoing court battles involving the former ruling party. But PF faction acting president Given Lubinda described the expulsion as illegal, stating that PF would not be treated as a non-existent entity within an Alliance it helped to form.
In an interview, Wednesday, Pule explained that since PF is no longer part of the alliance, only members who have remained under the ECL PF movement will be recognised as genuine campaigners for the by-elections. “Well from now… Do you agree that child defilers should be castrated?