Analyst faults Kaliya for undermining court in poll case
University of Malawi Chancellor College-based political analyst Mustafa Hussein has dismissed the sole independent presidential candidate in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, Reverend Hardwick Kaliya remarks that other contenders should accept defeat graciously, saying he is undermining the court where Saulos Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera are challenging results of the presidential race.
During a news conference in Blantyre on Tuesday, Kaliya declared the elections free, fair and credible: He appealed to other candidate to “just let it go.”
But Hussein cautioned Kaliya on his sentiments.
“I think Kaliya may have restrained himself from commenting on issues that are now in court,” he said.
Chilima—the country’s immediate past vice-president who vied for the presidency on a UTM Party ticket—and Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are challenging results announced by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) declaring Mutharika as winner.
MEC on May 27 declared Mutharika winner of the presidential race with 1 940 709 votes representing 38.57 percent followed by MCP’s Lazarus Chakwera with 1 781 740 votes representing 35.41 percent while Chilima finished third and ahead of four other aspirants with 1 018 369 votes representing 20.24 percent.
Kaliya also lost the Blantyre City West parliamentary elections.
He ditched the DPP when he fell during the party’s primary elections for ward councillor ahead of the 2014 polls.
While several election observer missions, both local and international, declared the electoral process free and fair, others, including the local quasi-religious group Public Affairs Committee (PAC) and the European Union Election Observer Mission expressed some reservations.
In its analysis of the polls, PAC said the results management process lacked credibility, especially in the wake of revelations of use of Tippex, a correction fluid MEC admitted was not part of its inventory.
The European Union Election Observer Mission also faulted the results management system.
During press briefings, MEC chairperson Jane Ansah, a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, said there were 147 “Madando” [complaints] lodged and that the issue of Tippex was resolved.
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@Gabro ma demo ndi constitutional right ya anthu mdziko muno ngakhale ku court komweko anthu ndiololedwa zionetsero mulandu ukuzengedwa. Umbuli bwanji. And Kaliyayu wachokera planet yakuti Mai Ansah anapereka nawonso dandu lawo kuti MEC sinapereke tippex yemwe anagwiritsidwa Nsanje to Chitipa pa May 21 tsano kubvomereza matope amenewa mutu ukuyenda apa?
Kaliya nkhope kutupa ngati ndasi yodzadza yeast yo! Nkhope imeneyo ingakhale pa potrait nkumati his exellency the state president?? M’maso mothina mo galu iwe!
This guy called Kaliya was hired by DPP TV to talk those nonsense.DPP TV is full of enept guys who cannot see beyond their noise. If Malawi will continue to have these neurotic people. Then we should expect colonisation to end in 10000 years to come.
This is colonised guy. he does not know what he is talking.
With due respect Reverend accept that there are things you do not know that other people know better. I respect your ‘gracious’ acceptance of the results. I would have wondered if you would even try to contend against the results since you indeed failed miserably and therefore the only respectful for you to do was to ‘graciously’ accept the results. But what I find very difficult to understand from you is the assertion that all should accept results graciously not only misplaced but also disrespectful to those other colleagues who beat him well enough.
Please lets all know that there are things we do not know and there are things we know but in the process of communicating what we know we need to leave space for those we do know know.
Looks like a Br to Mr Salanje of Bunda kudaku kkkkkkk
AKALIYA MAPIKANILO NGATI WAMBULELE WA TNM …. FUCKIN SHIT
How about MCP demonstrations? Aren’t they undermining the courts, since their objective is to nullify presidential elections results, which the courts are handling now?
The most stupid man in this country is you.Its so shameful to have such kind of man who is supporting a dictator in this generation
I truly wonder who/what qualifies some of the so-called analysts. Truly speaking sir, the demos are equally, even worse, undermining the courts.There are sanctions in the petitions, the president should resign, Mec chair should resign within such such period yet the matter is in court. That where you really see selfishness. When the opposition opposes they actually have their own motives behind. No one is sober ndiye musamatinamizepo apa
Tamuoneni pakamwapo ngati pa m’bwetse wa galu
How about MCP demonstrations? Aren’t they undermining the courts? Useless and biased analysts. Fotseki!
Mbuzi ya munthu ameneyu, chimkazinso ndi chihule chokonda ndalama
IN FACT, MOST MALAWIANS ARE RELATIVELY STUPID.
EVEN ALLOWING KALIYA , THE DEBT COLLECTOR , TO STAND AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
He is another idiot in the country!!!!! Hope akufuna position from the DPP now…
The best would have been for the media to black Kaliya out when he called for a press conference. Not all is news – that is exactly what happened with Kaliya. The trash he talked was not news worthy, perhaps you could have left that to MBC because that’s the top story for them. Sometimes you wonder which school of journalism these boot leackers went to.
A Kaliya we cant just let it go like that we need justice on results. That spirit you have of letting things go is the one that makes Malawi poor and poor.
Kaliya chamba chimakupweteka.Chitsiru cha munthu.
Akufuna upresidency with that shallow thinking capacity? We all tend to wonder where in the world could this idiot get more than 10,000 votes?. Zoona anthu ndithu kumupatsa mavoti mkulu amaeneyu, zoona Amalawi?
When I look at Kaliyas face reminds of 2001 drought…..when we suffered alot……