DPP’s Nankhumwa rallies behind Bokosi in Phalombe North, by-elections: Advises against voting for ‘laboratory’ govt

Leader of the Opposition in Parliament who is also Democratic DPP Vice President for the Southern Region, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has said DPP will throw its support behind Mabvuto Bokosi, an independent candidate in the Phalombe North constituency parliamentary by-election slated to take place on December 15, 2020.

Nankhumwa on campaign in Phalombe North
Nankhumwa: DPP is supporting Bokosi , the party has no candidate on its ticket but our member is running as an independent
Bokosi: Independent but DPP member
Bokosi addressing supporters

Nankhumwa was speaking on Sunday, December 6, 2020, when he addressed a garage meeting of party leaders at Khongoloni Community Day Secondary School in the area of Chief Jenala in the constituency.

He said Bokosi is a known DPP member and has been a member of the party for a long time, which makes him a natural choice to represent the interests of DPP in the constituency following the retirement of former Member of Parliament for the area, Anna Kachikho.

The DPP Vice President explained to members the dynamics of this by-election and why Bokosi is standing as an independent candidate despite being DPP.

“Mabvuto Bokosi is a DPP candidate who contested against Anna Kachikho in 2009 as an independent candidate after losing the primaries. Following the retirement of Anna Kachikho, we set out to conduct primaries in order to identify a candidate to replace Kachikho and represent DPP in this by-election and Mabvuto Bokosi won by 1000 plus votes against his competitor’s 600 plus votes.

However, DPP is finding itself without a candidate because the recent court ruling said candidates should maintain the tickets on which they stood in the 2019 parliamentary election. Now, Bokosi initially stood as an independent candidate, which is why he has reverted to his former status but he is DPP” explained Nankhumwa.

Nankhumwa added that people of Phalombe North Constituency have every reason to vote for Bokosi because Phalombe is one of the districts that enjoyed massive development under DPP and President Arthur Peter Mutharika.

“Today, Phalombe has some of the best tarred roads; a modern hospital and technical college, and we also have a lot of fresh water boreholes in this constituency,” said Nankhumwa, adding that he will devote his personal time and resources to ensure that Bokosi emerges victorious in this by-election.

Nankhumwa praised former president Peter Mutharika for his focus and for developing Phalombe district beyond recognition.

He said the people of Phalombe must support Bokosi because he is the only one who can ably sustain the development that Kachikho and Mutharika started in the areas of health and infrastructure.

The Mulanje Central parliamentarian added that the people must not waste time with the MCP government because it is a ‘laboratory’ government, which has no plans to develop the district.

Added Nankhumwa: “As you have already seen, the MCP government has no plans to develop the southern region. All government offices and headquarters of key government agencies have been transferred to the central region because they want to kill the southern region as business hub whereas APM used to distribute development equally.

In fact, the Central Region, particularly Lilongwe, received a lot of top-of-the-class development than any other region in the country under Mutharika and DPP.”

He said President Chakwera and MCP on the other hand have their priorities upside down as underlined by government stubbornness and fixation on its decision to waste resources build houses for MPs in all the 193 constituencies across the country when there are more deserving priorities.

These priorities include buying medicine in hospitals and construction of houses for teachers. He added that the alliance has simply failed on its manifesto and looking at what is happening now, the next five years will be a disaster.

There were over 700 area, constituency and district committee members that attended the interactive meeting including over 35 traditional chiefs who pledged to mobilize their subjects to vote for Bokosi on December 15.

Phalombe North is one of several constituencies where there are by-elections on December15. 2020.

The seat fell vacant following a court judgement that nullified the election of Anna Kachikho of DPP in 2019. Kachikho retired from active politics following the annulment, especially because of ill-health and old age.

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Nicholas
4 years ago

You are the one who could not understand how to run the government. Every time you had conflicts of interest. Simujalowanso mboma mark my words Mbava zachabechabe

Mwini muzi
Mwini muzi
4 years ago

I have always believed that voting for a candidate by his party being the strong reason leads to voters going for a wrong choice. Always focus on the attributes of the person. Dig deeper to unearth: the moral decay from the candidate if any, the IQ, how he portrays him/herself to see if they are really a person of the people; in short look at a bigger picture. 90% of our recent past and present MPs have contributed to the lack of development in our constituencies.

nafundo zalo
nafundo zalo
4 years ago

joji you cant tell people who to vote. another dpp mentality. kuti muzawagulila
cakuti cakuti akasanlha amene mukumuchulayo.

nafundo zalo
nafundo zalo
4 years ago

Mbava izi. baphuphani.
osangokhala pasi mwatani ce malemya joji.
mbava inu mumaendetsa a malawi akufuna kwabwino COSETA.
dpp tinataya mu Lake malawi. tyeni uko mxii.
MA AMERICANS AKUDZIWA KUTI BIDEN NDI YEMWE ANAWINA. ONLY TRUMP NDIYEMWE SAKUDZIWA KUTI BIDEN ANAWINA. NDE ZANUZI.
KHALANI PASI TSITSANI CALA CANU.
izi mukucita nonono kukakamila sizokupititsani kutali. zungo basi.

Neno
Neno
4 years ago

Kkkkk…Ati Phalombe has been developed beyond recognition…Nankhumwa which Phalombe are you talking about.

Same story of Singapore.

Moqtadar al Sadir
4 years ago

Whatever you do, your place is opposition and your numbers will be dwindling like those of udf. This is an MCP lead government and you know the track record of MCP. You brought Malawi down with your theft.

Mangochi Kabwafu
Mangochi Kabwafu
4 years ago

I would rather vote for a laboratory government than voting in a bunch of nepotistc/regionalists/failures and THIEVES.

guest
guest
4 years ago

che Nankhumwa takumvani, koma nanga its Bingu who moved govt offices to Lilongwe after kuthawa Bakili in 2004…komanso anthu akudera lanu agulatu foteleza wotchiphayu ndipo simungakane

wakalekale
4 years ago

old age and poor health zikubwera chifukwa choti khoti lati munabera?
why did you went ahead taking a loan as mp repayable for 5 years if you knew you will retire in 2020?

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