CATHOLIC PRIEST Father Elias Muma says the Patriotic Front-PF will only work out their leadership succession bid if they first bury late president Edgar Lungu.
And Fr Muma says the late president Edgar Lungu is a national property and not a PF property.
The Catholic priest says there can not be effective succession if the person you want to succeed remains unburied. 
In the homily at the St Mbaaga — Kitwe’s Kawama Catholic Parish priest wonders what succession tradition the PF is using in going in high gear to campaign and aspire to succeed Lungu when basic African tradition requires that a deceased is buried before people can talk about succeeding them.
“I would urge those that are concerned because I am also particularly concerned. You can not have something hanging on us, and now people are slowly forgetting about it; it is still there, so let us work it out,” Fr Muma says.
He says the late president is a property for all Zambians, adding that there is a need to close the mourning chapter by burying him first before people can start eying the position he held in the party.
