LUSAKA, Zambia
Outgoing Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Wednesday said he won’t file a petition to challenge the election results of last week’s elections.
Lungu lost by more than one million votes
to Hakainde Hichilema who will be inaugurated next Tuesday following the August
12 presidential elections.
Lungu, who had earlier described the
election as not being free and fair, said he won’t petition the results because
it will be a sheer waste of time.
In remarks delivered during the burial of
two members of the outgoing ruling Patriotic Front (PF) in Solwezi district in
the north-western part of the country, the Zambian leader said party members
have been pressurizing him to petition the election results but he has told
them that it will be a waste of time.
“I felt under pressure by some of my
colleagues that we should consider going to court and petition the election
results and I said it is a waste of time,” he said.
He said he doesn’t want unnecessary
tension that may occur during the 14 days in which the petition was required to
be heard like what happened following the 2016 elections petitioned by the then
opposition leader Hichilema, adding party members who felt like petitioning the
parliamentary or mayoral election results could go ahead.
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