Placido Hilukilwa
ZOOM Walubita, the alleged vice president of the Republican Party (RP) who recently “defected” to the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), is not who he claims to be.
According to RP leader Henk Mudge, Walubita is self proclaimed political hitchhiker who has not held any senior position in the RP for the past 14 years.
Walubita joined the IPC during a recent campaign event in Sikaunga village, Kongola constituency, in the Zambezi Region and was presented as the “now former” vice president of the RP.
Mudge said that Walubita’s tenure as RP vice president ended in 2010 and that he has since moved back and forth between the RP and other political parties. “During the 2014 elections, he was not with the RP but returned to us for the 2019 elections and then left again. He is definitely not joining the IPC directly from the RP,” said Mudge.