Plan B still alive, says KBF

Plan B still alive, says KBF

By Tony Nkhoma

ZAMBIA Must Prosper (ZMP) leader and member of the council of presidents of the opposition Tonse Alliance Kelvin Fube Bwalya said late former president Edgar Lungu’s Plan B is not dead.

Bwalya said President Hakainde Hichilema and the United Party for National Development (UPND) will still shiver from the impact of Lungu’s Plan B.

Speaking when he featured on Millennium TV, Bwalya, popularly known as KBF, said he had a proper relationship with Lungu and the two shared views on Plan B during several personal meetings.

Lungu died last week Thursday in South Africa where he was receiving treatment.

“I spoke with Lungu on phone, yes. I think we spoke with Lungu on several occasions physically and on the phone. And his main message was to improve the unity in Tonse [Alliance]. ‘I want to come back and find you guys united, and then we’re going to do what we need to do so that we begin executing Plan B’,” Bwalya quoted Lungu as saying.

He said Lungu announced that he had Plan B when the Constitutional Court declared that he was not going to contest the 2026 general elections because he was ineligible.
“And that’s at that point, if people remember correctly, that’s when he announced that he had a Plan B. I think we all heard that. That sent shivers into the UPND. Now they started saying, ‘no, what is this plan B? Maybe it is illegal’,” Bwalya said.
He said Lungu shared Plan B with only a few selected people, and he was one of them.

“He had a plan. But the plan was only given life to a very few selected people, if I may say that. And very few people, even in the hierarchy of Tonse knew what Plan B was,” Bwalya said.

He said late Lungu whispered Plan B to him and he assured that it would be executed even after his death.

“But he did whisper to some of us what Plan B was. And that’s what I hope we’re going to execute now,” Bwalya said.
He said Lungu’s main role in Tonse Alliance was to bring in as many opposition political parties to join as possible so that they could form a formidable alliance.

“But part of the discussions we had, and did discuss, was that we may not achieve 100 per cent of all the opposition parties coming together. However, if we could achieve 70 to 80 per cent, I was very sure from a strategic planning perspective, we could win the elections with 80 per cent of the opposition together,” Bwalya said.

Bwalya said there was a need to get rid of President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND in the 2026 general elections at all cost.

“We don’t need 100 per cent, which is toxic. But if we’ve got 80 per cent, which is fluid and understanding and loving, that is the way to go. And that’s the hope that the Zambians want to see in Tonse,” Bwalya said.
He said Hichilema and the UPND wanted to see problems and confusion in the alliance.

Bwalya urged Tonse Alliance members to remain more united and desist from Hichilema’s sponsored anarchy.

“And that’s what the UPND wants. The UPND wants to see confusion in Tonse. So it is possible, and we must be very careful as Tonse, that some people may be sponsored,” Bwalya said.
He said some people might just come to the alliance because of their own aims and objectives, which might not be the overriding factor of Tonse.

“Tonse’s main objective, and this is what Lungu shared with me and other people you may ask privately, his main aim was ‘let us liberate the Zambian people. We made a mistake by trying to go into the elections in 2021 fragmented, divided’,” Bwalya said.