Edgar Lungu’s lawyer Makebi Zulu says the former President does not intend to appeal the Constitutional Court’s judgement on his eligibility case with the aim of having the court to reverse its decision.
Yesterday, the Constitutional Court finally delivered its verdict over Lungu’s lengthy eligibility case in which the Tonse Alliance leader was deemed ineligible to contest the 2026 and any future elections as president having already exhausted his terms of office as per Article 106 (3) of the Constitution.
Speaking when he featured on KBN TV last evening, Zulu said the former president and his camp were considering petitioning the Constitutional Court judgement but not with the intention of having the court to go back on its ruling as they consider it impossible.
“As regards the aspect of petitioning or going back to court, it is something that is under consideration for purposes of clarifying what the court meant and the input of what they said not for purposes of having them reverse their decision because we know we will not get to that point. Everybody knows currently we may not even get to that particular point,” Zulu said.
Zulu added that Lungu and his legal team would only appeal the Constitutional Court’s judgement to seek clarity and obtain an impartial verdict.
“When we do go back to court it will be for the purposes of balancing the scale of justice and not necessarily for trying to obtain a different result,” he said.
He went on to stress that the judiciary are bound to apply the law with the aim of serving balanced and fair justice for all litigants.
“The court should not be a laundromat to clean up any person but a place where you get justice and that justice must be complete not be seen to only be punishing one person or indeed being applied to one person and then the other to be let go of just like that,” he said.
Yesterday, Lungu announced that he had set a “Plan B” in motion after he had been declared ineligible to contest any future elections by the Constitutional Court.
