Miles Sampa who declared himself PF president in 2023 with the backing of state police has little support...

Pundits and insiders blame Miles Sampa MP a nephew of the late President Michael Sata and leader since October (AC Vol 57 No 5 Lungu schemes to survive)...

Yet the government is spending as freely as ever as in the lavish expenditure by the Patriotic Front on the election of Miles Sampa as mayor of Lusaka on 26 July even though only 15% of voters turned out...

However the infusion of former PF top brass such as Hichilema's running mate Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba Miles Sampa Scott Sylvia Masebo and former televangelist and Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) President Nevers Mumba has increased Hichilema's appeal to the grassroots especially in the influential Bemba-speaking region...

From the left Lungu has to see off a challenge from the Democratic Front a new party which has split from the PF and is led by the late President Michael Sata's nephew Miles Sampa (AC Vol 56 No 23 PF scrambles for support)...

The latest rupture in the front ranks of the Patriotic Front came when former presidential aspirant Miles Sampa resigned as Deputy Commerce Minister at the end of October (AC Vol 55 No 24 The PF picks two candidates)...

The faction once led by Sata which includes Acting President Guy Scott and The Post publisher Fred M'membe has chosen Miles Sampa as its standard-bearer (AC Vol 53 No 23 Queen-maker Scott)...

Miles Sampa favoured by his faction is not thought strong enough to beat Lungu...

Sata's eldest son Mulenga has announced his intention to take the PF candidacy as has Sata's nephew Deputy Minister of Commerce Miles Bwalya Sampa although the latter has little chance...