Chaponda denies being one of the ‘beast’ misleading Mutharika for Malawi 2019 presidential run
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president (South) George Chaponda has said he is not one of the “beasts of prey” referred in the the game-changing socio-political remarks of the former First Lady Callista Mutharika, who have surrounded President Peter Mutharika and misleading him.
Callista said the “beasts of prey are everywhere, at State House, in the DPP, everywhere…”
The former First Lady said there are individuals in DPP government who should not hold public office because they are thieves and urged Malawians not to waste time with thieves.
“Out there, lots of people would like to progress. As a nation, we need to help those who seek progress. We must not waste our energies on thieves like these. People are tired of poverty.”
Apparently, Chaponda has been pinpointed by commentators as one of the “beasts” misleading Mutharika on his candidacy for the May 2019 Tripartite Eelctions.
But Chaponda has denied that he is misleading Mutharika and is not a beast
“The President has not broken any law by expressing his intention to contest for a secom term (his final five years),” Chaponda retorted in a Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) interview.
Chaponda said those who argue that Malawi has just wasted five years with DPP in power hence there should be change of guard, “have no basis” for their claims.
“It is all jealousy,” said Chaponda on Tiuzeni Zoona programme.
Some members of the ruling party are demanding President Mutharika, 79, to pave way for the youthful State Vice-President Saulos Chilima as the DPP’s presidential candidate in next year’s elections.
Mutharika has openly declared he would represent DPP in 2019 and that has also been echoed by party gurus such as Chaponda.
He argues that change of guards will give away the presidency to main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP).
On his part, Chilima has kept his cards to his chest, saying not a word on the suggested take-over, leaving it all to his supporters to fight for the cause they seem to be passionately eager to defend to the hilt.
The Chilima ‘movement for change’ says if Mutharika does not willfully pave way for their preferred candidate then the position of DPP presidential candidate for the 2019 elections should be contested for at the party’s convention. They say it’s only with Chilima at the helm that DPP stands a chance to win in the 2019 presidential race.
Mutharika has countered that by saying he would contest to secure victory for the party in the 2019 polls.
In the radio interview, Chaponda maintained that Mutharika will go unopposed at the DPP convention but could not indicate whent he party will gold its convention to elect new office bearers in the National Governing Council which has not met for four years.
Chaponda is regarded as the possible successor of Mutharika but the Mulanje-South-West legislator kept his comments close to the chest on what post he will contest at the convention..
“Tiakona komweko… Nanga panthawi ino tiyambe kunena sitinayambe even kampeni.. Tikaona komweko [ We will cross the bridge when we finally get there. We have not even started our party campaigns and it is to early to say,” he said.
DPP was founded by the President;’s late brother, Bingu, in 2005 to provide a political footstool for Bingu’s administration after he had ditched United Democratic Front (UDF), the party that sponsored his presidential candidacy in 2004 after former president Bakili Muluzi handpicked him as his successor.
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When you ask the devil if indeed he is a “devil”, the answer would surely be a resounding no. He genuinely doesn’t know that he is the devil.
I wish i had a friend like Peter Mutharika.He stood by his friend nthawi yovuta.Chaponda is not a beast and did not steal anything.Saulos Chilima wanted him gone so that he steals DPP easily koma sha! zakanika
Komatu zinazi tisamangonena. i don’t blame the president for trusting Chaponda. makosana, he was one of the people who remained with Peter when all the opportunists like Sidik Mia and so many others left Mutharika alone in 2012.He demonstrated loyalty and proved to be trustworthy.The President is like any other human being he needs his people around to hear the opinion.Its up to him to take their advice or leave it.
I can’t stand this mbava. He needs to go away.
Fuck you Queen B you will never be like him
Fuck u too Fake ass king
Vp is fit but has rushed to turn against who brought him into politics.
To form a party and find supporters from chewas who ate for mcp and lomwes who are for dpp yaos who are for udf aa kuta kwao ndi komweku asiyeni azifupa ku katolikako
koma chaponda ndiye grotesque, kunyasa nkhope kumeneko
Iwe Ndadabwa onyasa ndi amako!
BWANA NDADABWA and BWANA KING B, kutukwanizana pano ayi. Tsitsani nfundo kuti tikutsatireni. No matter tikukonda zosiyana, tiyeni TIKONDANE.
Masangwi, Kaliati, Kalindo and others are welcome to say their opinion but they are poor ambassadors of Chilima’s message of regeneration.
oMachemba, when did you realise Chilima was unfit as a politician? Why was he chosen to be APMs running-mate? As VP, Chilima if fit tontake over as the State President in the event of the President getting incapacitated. Constitutionally, SKC is fit to run this country. If APM has managed to wash his face somehow with time, what can make SKC fail given the opportunity to enter into the cockpit or driving seat. Just tell us that in your own lopsided thinking, anything Lhomwe is correct, including mediocrity, so long it is APM as a president. Be honest with yourself, if Chakwera from the centre had done or run the country the APM way, would you have given the same praises. Lhomwes are busy praising APM that he has developed the country as if they have been in all parts of the country.
This issue of tribal politics is long dead. There’s so much intermarriages that technically we belong to so many tribes. People in the north are marrying in the South and Central Malawi; people in the South are marrying everywhere and so are people in Central region. Tribal politics is now become an excuse for incompetence. There are as many lazy tumbukas as there are senas. There are as many corrupt lhomwes as there are yaos. There as many incompetent ngonis as there are chewas. hanging on to tribes is as primitive and backward as it can get.
Inu zinkhalani ndinkhalamba zanuzi forward with Youthful leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on gentlemen. What do you mean by political base? Did Bingu have any political base? He rode on the back of UDF. Did Peter Mutharika have any political base? He rode on the back of DPP, a party which Bingu made a base after stealing from UDF. Did Joyce Banda have any political base? She stole from DPP Mutharika and made a base with it. Chilima will make a base through DPP and he is known now. Never lie about bases. It is about strategies to get people to you including stealing pipo.
Even in this modern age, a political base in Malawi, if not in most of sub-Sahara Africa, is a basically a cultural grouping (aka tribal affiliation). There are other sources of a base, such as a Region or a grouping of Districts; and there may be others, but they are minor, or Lilliputian.
So, Muluzi, B wa M and JB did have significant bases; as does Chakwera. Ditto for Chihana and Mwenifumbo, in the North.
Even if a base is inherited, it needs kupalira (to be taken care of with tender care), before it’s path to the leader is apparent or clear.
Perhaps oMachemba should have been explicit on this point, but he assumed people would connect the dots between the invisible points.
The above should also suffice as a satisfactory response to @Katong’ongo et al. No?
Talk of your own Lhomwe NEPOTISM. Sub-sahara yake yiti? Lungu is from a minority tribe pa Zambia pompa, Ramamphosa is a Venda another minority in SA, the list is endless.
It’s only Lhomwe belt ku Malawi kuno who CANNOT vote for any party other than the one affiliated to their leaders’ tribe. No wonder your numbskulls logic is in tandem with that.
SHAME on mediocrity!!!
South Africa like Zambia people vote for the party. In Malawi, people vote for a president (via a party), MPs and councillors and thats why its dubbed a tripartite. The dynamics in South Africa and Zambia are materially different from Malawi where cult politics is at play. This is why Malawians don’t care about party ideologies or policies; they care much about the personality behind the party.
Zoona bwana. Malawians don’t vote for a person. We vote for the party. If you want to win, use the party which is more popular,that is why the CHILIMA camp doesn’t want to let go DPP. KKKKKKKKK. Stealing pipo.
Why when Judge has ruled in favor of DPP U always say wadya banzi from today choose the courts and the judges who can rule to Ure satification Champonda now is a free man ifetu tinamva kale kuti inali plan yomuthesera mphamvu ndichifukwa chake mai kaliati anachosedwa unduna pogwirizana ndi Chilima inu simwamvera kwa Calister Chimombo ife tinaziziwa kale kale kuti Chilima akuukira komachifukwa cha dzina lachipani chathu tinangumusiya kuti azathawa yekha amati wochimwa athawa yekha inu a MCP mukhale rede tikathana ndi bebe tikubwera kwa inu tikunyenyeni 2019 chifukwatu mwatasa mungoona ngati mwatenga kale boma ndiprezidenti wanu womangopangisa nsonkhano ku kasungu basi nkumaganizira kuti angawine malawi ndi kukasungu kokha
Mbava iyi. Who can listen to him paja ananenelathu kuti sazchoka yekha muboma koma ndi Pitala achokelalimodzi.
Chaponda is right! and he is on so many levels better than chilima himself.Lets start with education, he is from Yale univesity where world leaders like bill clinton,barack obama , JF kennedy graduated from.Experience: Just like Bingu Chapondae has worked in reputable organisations just like United Nations since he was in his 30’s knows how they work with 3rd world countries like malawi. Chilima worked hard to turnish Chaponda’s image with maizegate hoax but it didn’t make him look in any way!
Currently what we need in Malawi. is not a leader who can display charisma, outspoken, body language. No body language has ever changed any country. we need leaders like Tanzanian Magufuli, Rwandan Paul kagame who can deliver results without fear or favour, leaders with zero tolerance to corruption, leaders who are ready to loose freinds just to make sure that those beast that syphon country recources are put behind the bars
He is a ‘beast’ what is he denying. Of course this beast, unlike his colleagues, he is also a known SERIAL-LIAR too, so he will obviously deny.
Even when stacks of money were literally found in his own house, his bedroom this man literally denied it was not his money. He lied through his teeth it was DPP’s money, aclaim his own colleagues Dausi and Mussa categorically refused to collude.
So ignore the beast denial, in fact it’s because he is a beast.
Shame on all BEASTS!!!
ngati Chaponda amakana ndalama zoti wapezeka nazo , angavovere zoti he is ill advising the president?
O Machemba, so too is Mutharika, he is not an orator nor a fluent speaker. Politics demands these two qualities as was the case Barack Obama. The man doesn’t even have the courage to go to Parliament to answer questions, he freezes like a baby chicken.
Chilima is toast. Wayamba kubwebweta tsopano. He has been fooled BIG time. Did he really think Callista ndi munthu womumvera?
In fact, Chaponda is the mother of all the beasts surrounding APM
Omachemba , you will see what people are saying, don’t waste your time with your toothless BUBUBU , he has not offered anything tangible to our Malawi.
Not being a real politician, VP Chilima has no real political base to stand on. And he knows it.
He’s the kind of guy you would pick, perhaps, to head a government of technocrats; and that’s about it.
His body language at political functions tell all. He certainly does have admirable qualities, but political charisma isn’t one of them.
And DPP would be committing political suicide by going with the VP at the helm: Frankly, this is not to underestimate him; but he simply hasn’t showed a politician personality – over THREE years! Maybe, he doesn’t even see himself as a politician, and that’s why, maybe, he’s has not even taken a swipe at the current controversy. Perhaps he’s concerned too much with his post DPP future, in the business world, if he shows too much political skin.
A real politician has to poke a stick into the hornet nest once in a while, and even appear to not be afraid of the consequences (consider, Chaponda, Kaliati, Msowoya, Mwenifumbo, Mzumara, even APM or even Kabwila).
APM is not ideal as a leader, but he has now earned some stripes over the past three years! And, in politics, now as always, it’s all about comparisons with the alternative. Given the current overall state of the nation (economy, food, security, demographics – in that order) Malawians will approve of APM’s perfomance; and oChakwera will go down, counted out at ten, again next year.
It’s all about the alternative, abale inu.
Did Bingu had any political clout when he was being sold by Atcheya? Mwangodana ndi Chilima but the truth is you will regret because MCP will have an upper hand on APM than Chilima. Mark my words! Though APM is good, he has been too soft to tame his beasts who have wantonly destroyed the country in bold daylight. People who were nobodys became too powerful and amassed wealth to the amazement of Malawians while the currently is in acute shortage of almost everything. Only if APM acts on his beasts things will work. Otherwise the Chakwera whom you demonise will carry the day.
Tinene chilungamo APM is right ndipo ngati akufuna kusiyila wina aliyense amusiyile but not Chilima.This young man is willing to do anything so long as he is in power.That’s why wayamba kunena boma loti he is part of corrupt.He is not in it for development but to fulfill his ego.
Bravo Chaponda Bravo DPP! DPP will win without Chilima. It won when Chilumpha left,it won when Joyce Banda left.Chilima akufuna kuba chipani kenako abweletsepo team yake.
Kikkkkk hahahahahahahaha mwasamba koma lero? Mukanagona kapena? We are changing leadership in Malawi kaya udzakhalapo or ayi izo ndizako.
Leave DPP alone! If you don’t like its presidential candidate APM don’t vote for it.Ife sitidya ndale zanuzo
That is what is happening some people want chilima, that is an alternative. All that DPP can do is to allow the convention to decide. if APM is indeed far much better than SCK then he should not be worried about this political novice.
Are you sure?
Be careful with such (wrong) sweeping statements. Bingu at some point was also said to have NO ‘political constituency’ (whatever that means?). In fact Tcheya thought Bingu was a puppet.
Talking about political constituency it’s unfortunate that even people who are supposed to be elites often refer to tribal/ ethnic patronage when talking about this.
Dziko lotembeleredwa ili
Shame! Shame! Shame!!!
Chaponda and his friends are right.Chilima will dump the DPP if he wins on the ticket.This young man is greedy and thats why he is calling the govt corrupt
Even if the president listens to Chaponda i don’t see anything wrong.He is one of the few people that stayed loyal to him ena atapita kwa JB and the president has every reason to trust him because he showed it.Mutakhala inu Peter mungatani?
Chaponda is right.If Chilima thinks he is popular let him stand at the convetion just like anyone else.
Komatu zinazi tisamangonena anthufe. i don’t blame the president for trusting Chaponda. makosana, he was one of the people who remained with Peter when all the opportunists like Sidik Mia and so many others left Mutharika alone in 2012.He demonstrated loyalty and proved to be trustworthy.The President is like any other human being he needs his people around to hear the opinion.Its up to him to take their advice or leave it