KABWE HIGH COURT ORDERS GIVEN LUBINDA-LED PF FACTION TO VACATE PARTY SECRETARIAT

The Kabwe High Court has ordered the Patriotic Front –PF- faction led by Given Lubinda to cease occupying the party secretariat located along Lumumba road in Lusaka and suspend any activities connected to an impending party convention until the court determines the leadership dispute.

According to an ex-parte order of injunction signed by judge Kelvin Limbani on 12 November 2025, the proceeding was brought by Secretary General of the Robert Chabinga led faction Morgan Ng’ona against Acting Faction Secretary-General Brenda Nyirenda of the Lubinda team.

The injunction bars Ms. Nyirenda, her agents, servants from occupying the secretariat, using PF materials, issuing party receipts or letterheads, holding meetings, press conferences or media briefings in the name of the party, and from purporting to act as party leaders or announcing a convention roadmap while the matter is before the court.

An inter-parte hearing of the application has been scheduled for 3 December 2025 before High Court Judge Kelvin Limbani to allow both sides to be heard on the substantive issues.

However, Judge Limbani in order warns that contempt proceedings and possible imprisonment may follow if any deliberate breach of the injunction by the Lubinda faction.

For over two years the former ruling party has been rocked in a leadership dispute over the legitimacy of a convention that ushered Miles Sampa and later Robert Chabinga and Morgan Ng'ona as party President and Secretary General respectively.