UNITA leader considers “a lot of intelligence” necessary to overcome current problems

The position was expressed by Isaías Samakuva in a communication alluding to November 11, the date on which Angola achieved its national independence.

Isaias Samakuva stressed that Angola is a democratic state under the rule of law, "that is why no competing party can interfere in the private forum, in the independence and autonomy of other political parties".

"It takes a lot of intelligence, serenity and unity. We cannot win this challenge with riots, insults and high spirits. Much less with short vision, with aggressive messages on social networks, blaming each other", he said.

According to the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the ruling 700/2021 of the Constitutional Court, which annulled the 13th ordinary congress of the party held in 2019, which elected Adalberto Costa Júnior as president of the political organization, "is a political trap". "A mine that others want to burst under our feet," he described.

"We have to be very discerning. In the messages circulating on social networks, the discourse of aggressiveness, insults and nonsense seems to be fashionable, which only fuels intolerance and does not dignify our party. These practices must be stopped, I appeal to let everyone immediately stop these practices," exhorted Isaiah Samakuva.

The UNITA leader, who after 16 years of running the party, returned to office, following the Constitutional Court ruling, which was more focused on militants, recalled that there is democracy in UNITA, which means "tolerance, listening to the other, even if have a different opinion".

"People who think differently from us are not called names. At UNITA we respect the leaders, but we do not follow people, we follow the cause. We follow established objectives, principles and values," he said.

"In UNITA there are no Savimbists, Samakuvists or Adalbertists. There are citizens, who respect one another, who have different opinions, but are united in pursuing the same cause, defending the same principles and values. Do not accept division", he stressed.

According to Isaías Samakuva, "UNITA is a project of belief, perseverance and hope, a party worthy and proud of its history and should not be allowed to be insulting on social media".

UNITA's president appealed to the militants not to respond to provocations, to maintain the respect, unity and internal cohesion of the party, to help build national unity.

"Do not allow people who do not know UNITA to speak on behalf of UNITA and try to mischaracterize it," he said.

Isaias Samakuva warned that "it is not the outsiders who are in charge of UNITA", but its members and its organs, and for those who wish to be part of the political organization "must adhere, first, to its principles and values".

Regarding the XIII congress, scheduled from 4th to 6th December, the leader highlighted that, of the various candidacies that arise, "if there are any, may the best win".

"So that the congress may once again be the celebration of our internal democracy, which is a value acquired as UNITA's political culture. We hope that the elected leadership will be able to build cohesion, unity and a climate of necessary dialogue within the party, to lead it to the great challenges facing the country," he said.

Looking at the country's problems, Isaías Samakuva underlined that they "are of such magnitude that they will not be solved by one man, a party, nor in a single legislature", considering that they "require a broad transformation of society, in its structure total, over several decades".

"When we proclaimed independence in 1975, we did not have the greatness or humility to understand that the multicultural nature of the micronations that make up Angola demands several leaders and not one. It demands concertation, unity and inclusion, not imposition, intolerance, competition and exclusion ", he said.

"My proposal on this 11th of November is to transform the current crisis into a great opportunity to rethink the country and finally promote the meeting of Angola with itself," he added.