Atupele’s runningmate Mwenifumbo tells Chihana: ‘I am not resigning from Aford’

February 11, 2019 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 19 Comments

Newly picked United Democrtaic Front (UDF) presidential running mate Frank Tumpale Mwenifumbo has said he would not resign from Alliance for Democracy (Aford), saying he was picked as running mate to Atupele Muluzi by virtue of his membership to Aford.

Mwenifumbo is Atupele’s running mate on UDF banner in presidential race

The maverick Karonga central legislator’s comment follow calls from Aford president Enoch Chihana to resign as Aford member to join the UDF, a party Chihana was belonged to.

“This is just an electoral alliance. This arrangement is for the elections only. I am still Aford and my president remains the Right Honourable Chihana,” said Mwenifumbo.

Muluzi made a surprise pick of Mwenifumbo as his running mate for the highly contentious May 21 elections.

Mwenifumbo went to Comesa hall in Blantyre for the presentation of nomination papers accompanied by Aford supporters.

“This is not nothing knew. At one point, Chakufwa Chihana was running mate to Gwanda Chakuamba and Brown Mpinganjira was running mate to John Tembo,” said Mwenifumbo.

But Chihana said the party constitution does not allow a member to hold membership of two parties.

“As Aford, we are not in alliance with the UDF,” he said.

Chihana said Mwenifumbo should choose whether to be running mate to Muluzi or continue to be member of Aford.

He said Aford is in official alliance with UTM party of Saulos Chilima.

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19 replies on “Atupele’s runningmate Mwenifumbo tells Chihana: ‘I am not resigning from Aford’”

  1. Both atupele and frank are stupid and greedy politicians, with no morals. atupele can never be president of malawi because of his father and now his job is to be dividing malawi people in the opposition vote. my plea will go to northern dont support these fools if you want the northern region to be developed. put chihana and sck in govt them you will witness massive development, for once do not accept to be used like a condom. udf will never ever win elections at least with utm you have a chance.

    1. CotizenX, I don’t agree with some parts of your comments:

      1. I don’t agree that Atupele is dividing Aford. Aford are a divided party on their own and they have been divided for many years. Don’t blame others for the division in Aford, it’s an internal thing. What Atupele is doing, is to just capitalise on the already existing division with Aford.

      2. I don’t agree that northerners should put Chihana in if they want the north to develop. As a matter of fact the truth is quite the opposite, voters MUST get rid of Chihana once and for all to stand a chance of rebuilding the party. Chihana is not part of a solution but rather a significant problem. He is self serving. He has lead Aford in previous government alliance and he failed to achieve anything meaningful or non meaningful. It’s like he didn’t exist at all. Chihana is not a leader. Chihana is not visionary nor is he inspiring. His strategy is to strike deals that fends for him and his family on the back of Aford voters. He is not a leader, he is just there coz of association. He is a known politician in Malawi only coz of his father. If this Chihana wasn’t a son of the late Chihana, his name would be no where near the politicians list of Malawi. There is nothing that he does that would warrant him recognition and popularity in Malawian politics. If you take away the association of his father and call him based only on his performance m, he is a nobody in Malawian politics. One of the problems they have in Aford is that they have persistently kept him in power. It feels like Aford voters feels like keeping him in power is honouring the spirit and the name of his father. The first step to resuscitating Aford, is get rid of Chihana.

  3. Aford never stops to surprise. These are signs of luck of clear leadership, luck of direction and luck of purpose. Zero mandate, zero vision, conclusively way past it’s sell by date. This party expired way back in 2003 immediately after the results of the first multiparty elections in Malawi. From then on all these people are doing is carrying a dog to the hunt.

    I have this thing with a friend of mine where we are betting on several predictions leading into the elections. My friend came up with what I thought is a money winner for me, in a joking way he was daring me to a bet that Aford will go into two separate alliances at once. We both laughed it off and I told him if that was to happen, I will give him 2 million Kwacha – i now have to find ways of excusing myself from making the payment.

    One sure certain and predictable thing with Aford is that they are so unpredictable. That’s what happens when you have a party, as a matter of fact any institution that has no sense of direction.

    This is really funny. These two comedians have indeed managed to sell the Aford votes twice.. let me say that again: these two clueless leaders have indeed sold Aford to two separate buyers at the same time. This how desperate the pair is on selling the party, they are both trying all they can to really squeeze out money and cash in as much as they can on the back of Aford. See, these people are not doing this for the life of the party, they are not doing this for the benefit of their votes let alone for Malawians, they are on a personal enrichment journey. They are selling the votes of Aford for the benefit of themselves and their families.

    I think Aford needs to educate its leaders, just because the party is called ALLIANCE for democracy, it doesn’t mean that the party MUST always be in alliances.

    Now, let’s face it – there are two more funny characters to this comedy and that’s the buyers, UTM and UDF but also, voters of Aford.

    Let’s start with the 2 buyers: Hahaha.. how do you buy into a territory of confusion? How do you choose to ignore all the rumbling and internal chaos that’s been going on at Aford and go into an alliance with them? Please don’t attempt to answer that question coz we know the answer.. “Dyela”, “self serving”. In your calculations you reckon Aford is the custodian of the northern votes in Malawi, so aligning with them will increase your counts.

    And now to all who will vote Aford: Your so called leaders don’t care about you. They don’t care what you think nor what you feel. They look at you as their ticket to their personal livelihood. You are a source of their individual financial plans. You are their individual benefits system. You are their cash cows. They are willing to sell your vote twice just to fulfill their personal ambitions. They will go any length to see their greedy intentions materialise. Am sorry to tell you this but honestly in May when you stand on long queues waiting to cast your vote and you give your vote to Aford, just know that you are feeding the families of these two comedians. Their actions are in plain to see and you have to understand why they behave like this. Here is a list to help you see their actions for what they really are:

    1. They are greedy
    2. They are both fighting for their personal opulence
    3. They are so desperate to preserve comfort for their families on the back of your vote
    5. They DONT give a damn about you
    6. They are not leaders, they are takers
    7. They are where they are today on the sweat of others
    8. They have zero sense of direction
    9. Their priority is to do all they can even if it means selling your vote twice, just for them to stay in power
    10. They will enter alliances on the basis of which one would benefit them more individually

    Cry blood Malawi..

  4. OSANGO GAWANA KA CHIPANIKO BWANJI MAKOSANA MWATANI KODI KULIMBANA KOSATHA MWATCHITIKA NGATI YU AZIMAYI

  8. Mwenefumbo is right here Dada chihana. I see nothing wrong with mwenefumbos actions. You are bulldozing issues bwana. Your democracy is not appetising. All the best frank!!! I ask you to vote for chakwera, please frank mwenefumbo

  11. Atupele kutha ma plan uku. Of all the people in Malawi or Northern Region. why pick the controversial Frank, why ? You think he is a big figure in the north? zamanyazi

  17. If they can’t be principled on such basic matters, can they identity conflicting interests when in power?
    No matter what personal differences there could be in AFORD, these things could have been done better

  18. Hon Chihana please expel this political prostitute Frank Mwenifumbo from He will infect Aford with a virus ice you don’t.
    For Frank Mwenifumbo is a political postitute No 1 who was first at a rally of Bakili in Karonga to call for a THIRD TERM for Bakili.
    Then having been elected again as Aford MP for a second term he was amongst the first to crops to DPP and support Bingu in Bingu’s fight with Bakili and was even instrumental in Bingu’s marginalisation of UDF and the formation of DPP after Bingu and Mwenifumbo came back loaded with U S Dollars from Taiwan, using the dollars to buy support for Bingu. The same Mwenifumbo fought for leadership with Chakufwa. The same Mwenifumbo at a rally in Zomba warned newspaper and media that government advertising in the newspapers would be stopped and censorship imposed if they continued to write bad things about Bingu and DPP. Yet very same Mwenifumbo danced on the dead body of Bingu when the dead body was still warm and not cold when the same Mwenifumbo jumped with Gondwe to support Joyce Banda and her party. Now he is selling Aford to APM and DPP. He provides drinks to chiefs, the Paramount Kyungu and the journalists to win their support. This is an evil political prostitute who has no shame as some one said earlier he would sell his own mother.
    This man now is running mate to AA. Really?

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