Mike Mposha says he won Malambo East but chose not to petition because it would divide the people

Mike Mposha, a former Member of Parliament for Munali and a former minister, says he believes he won the Malambo East parliamentary seat in the 13 August general election but chose not to challenge the result in court. In an interview, he said a petition would have taken him back to Parliament but would also have divided the people of the constituency. He said he is confident he would have won it. The declared result was different. Independent candidate Faith Lungu won the seat with 7,118 votes, while Mr Mposha received 5,091, a gap of 2,027 votes. Mr Mposha had left Munali and moved to contest Malambo East about five months before the August elections. Mr Mposha's remarks come while other losing candidates are pursuing their cases in the courts. Paul Kabuswe, a former Minister of Mines, has petitioned the result in Chililabombwe, where witnesses told the court that the winner gave them K50 each to vote for him. That hearing is before Kitwe High Court Judge-in-Charge Lastone Mwanabo, sitting in Chingola, and no judgment date has been announced. Other election petitions are before the High Court in Lima and in Mwandi. ## Why it matters An election petition asks a judge to decide who should sit in the National Assembly, and the candidate who files has to prove the claims with evidence, as the Chililabombwe witnesses are being tested on theirs. Mr Mposha's statement is a claim about how he believes the vote went, not a finding by any court or by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. For voters in Malambo East, what counts is that the declared result stands and their MP is Faith Lungu, an independent and not a member of any party. ## What happens next Because Mr Mposha did not petition, the result declared by the Electoral Commission of Zambia stands and Faith Lungu keeps the seat. The petitions in Chililabombwe, Lima and Mwandi continue in the High Court. Source: News Diggers, 25 October 2026, 08:10 (Africa/Lusaka). Link: <https://diggers.news/local/2026/10/25/i-w