God has been so kind to me that over the past decade, I have been able to meet and sometimes work with the most brilliant political minds of our country. If you asked me to just mention the top five, Z Allan Ntata will be amongst them.
Ntata worked with Bingu. Bingu was not an ordinary president. He was tough, and his standards were very high. He could not hire an average person. He was too intelligent that his choice of people to work with him was strictly for intelligent thinkers and performers.
Ntata was just a young boy in his 30s, but Bingu appointed him and worked with him beyond being legal counsel. That must tell you something about Ntata because some of you were just 10 years old then and in primary school, but now you are in your 20s with a smart phone pretending to know too much on Facebook. You know nothing.
Almost everyone you see in DPP today could not have been anywhere near Bingu. They don’t have the brains that Bingu would have needed. Bingu sanali wachibwana. That’s why there is not a single cadet who can handle Ntata and engage him with facts at an intellectual level. Ndi ana kwambiri.
In fact, some of those who worked in the Bingu administration do testify that Bingu was too strong and too efficient that even his own brother APM was too weak and too slow to handle him. APM was not any match to his great brother. Of course, evidence is there now that we know how APM failed not just to run the country but the party as well. DPP has collapsed and lost government twice under his watch – during the 2012 transition and 2020 elections.
DPP has become so weak and lost all its great assets under APM. What remains are just residuals of politicians and cadets who can’t put up any serious and meaning political fight.
