KBF Expelled From PF

The Patriotic Front’s Central Committee has expelled Lusaka lawyer Kelvin Fube Bwalya - commonly known as KBF - from the party. 

The party has previously cited insubordination and attempts to undermine the presidential powers of appointment as grounds for Mr Fube’s dismissal. The lawyer recently announced his intentions to run for the party’s leadership in the upcoming PF general party conference in July.

Speaking to reporters from News Diggers, Mr Fube urged his supporters to remain calm and united. He said that he was currently in “mourning” but would offer further comment when the time was right. 

“I regret to advise that I will not dignify such actions when I am still in mourning. So as far as I am concerned, when the time is right I will respond,” he said. 

The PF’s deputy secretary general Mumbi Phiri has since commented that KBF is free to apply to re-join the party soon.

“He can come back in the party even within a month and continue with what he has been doing with the party,” said Phiri. 

Upon announcing his ambition to run for the PF’s presidency, KBF said that contesting party leadership could not be grounds for dismissal.

“We are not running a kangaroo court, we are running a ruling political party. This is not how you run a political party. You do not expel people simply because one member says I want to be President of the party. It’s not a crime for a member of the party to indicate intention to stand for a political position in the party, not even in the constitution of the PF,’’ he said.  

A letter to KBF from PF Lusaka Province Chairman Paul Moonga, dated 3rd May, called Mr Fube’s bid for power an act of “gross insubordination and an insult to the People of Zambia”. 

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