Everton who? Awkward moment Goodall forgets DPP running mate’s name

February 18, 2019 Judith Moyo – Nyasa Times 28 Comments

Depsite backing President Peter Mutharika’s running mate in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe  struggled to remember the full name of the veep nominee, Everton Chimulirenji during the rally in Mzuzu.

Gondwe pledges to support Mutharika’s choice of Chimulirenji as his running mate.

Gondwe, DPP vice president responsible for the Northern Region, during the party rally in Mzuzu left the crowds in stiches when he forgot Chimulirenji’s name, before DPP Northern Regional governor, Kenneth Sanga, intervened to remind him of the particulars.

“A Peter woyeee, a Peter woyee…bala ba runningmate ayime nawo…woyee… zina lawo nkhulimanya chomene cha … [I don’t know his name well],” Gondwe said when he addressed a political rally in Ntchengautuba, Mzuzu/

However, Gondwe supported  Mutharika’s choice of Chimulirenji as his running mate, saying he is a Malawian who can run for any public office.

“ To me, Peter Mutharika is a very wise person. I have stayed with him for over 60 years since our school days. If he chooses him [Chimulirenji], I know it is a wise choice. I will support the choice and I ask people here to support it,” Gondwe said.

President Mutharika surprised his DPP loyalist and supporters when he picked little known Chimulirenji as his running mate for the watershed May 21  elections.

There has been discontent within rank and file of the DPP with others suspecting that the President was forced by his wife, First Lady Gertrude and his powerful security aide Norman Paulos Chisale to pick Chimulirenji who hails from Ntcheu where Chisale comes from which borders Balaka where the First Lady hails from.

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28 replies on “Everton who? Awkward moment Goodall forgets DPP running mate’s name”

  1. A MALAWI IFE TIZIYENDERA MAGANIZO A GETRUDE MUTHARIKA AND PAUL CHISALE? COME ON, WAKE UP! I FOR ONE WILL NOT SUPPORT CHIMULIRENJIEVEN IF IT MEANS KUBETSA BOMA. LIPITE BASI MESA NDIZIMENE ASANKHA OKHA. A PRESIDENT!

  2. We all forget some names especially when they are not common to us. Nothing wrong. Or may be Gondwe was passing on to the DPP Supporters to finish and that is not strange. Ihaveeven heard people from the North calling Manganya, “ Manganya.” So that is not an issue. If you have not forgotten somebody’s are are more knowledgeable , it is only God who cannot forget, not fresh and blood.

    1. But not your party’s presidential running mate. If his name can be forgotten by the party’s senior members, it shows he is an unpopular figure within the party. How are they going to campaign for him if they cannot recall his name?

  3. How do you support someone you can’t even call his name…….. Government is not for geriatrics ( Nkhalamba)

  4. My GOD! My Country Malawi! Badada Goodah muwonesyelatu wuchekula na Pitala winu uyo.Kapumulani mwamutendele.Musangikenge waka natumilandu twakwiba sono sono apa.Kwenesho a Gondwe mwawonesha musinjilo wukulu chomene apa.DPP woyeeee.Chipani chawa chekulu woyeee!!!

  7. With Goodall’s mentality forget Malawi is going anywhere. Just because I have known my father since as a toddler and i’m 35 yr then I shouldn’t question my Dad. He’s a superman who can’t make mistakes. Then I tell my kids, “just accept and follow whatever he says, he is a wise man, I have known him for 30years” Even when some of his decisions now do not make sense at all because of his advanced age,

  10. When even the people whom you attend cabinet meetings with can’t remember your name, it confirms that you are useless and a nuisance.

  11. kkkkk Goodo be searious please how can you forget ur fellow Minister after all they are not many in their numbers.

  12. Goodall, at that age u would do good if u retire and rest. That forgetfulness tells a very bad story on ur party.

  14. What is worrying me is that despite the messy choice of running mates in ALL parties nobody is proposing any remedy to it. Should we just accept for example to be ruled by somebody’s girl friend, errandboby, sing’anga, illiterate, very old/young person, etc, just because somebody carelessly chose him/her as a running mate?
    I don’t know whether the Zambians changed their constitution which promotes the vice president to acting presidency for 90 days only pending elections if the president dies or leaves office. Without that brilliant law a white foreigner vice president would have finished a presidential term after the death of Micheal Sata ( or was it Mwanawasa?)
    I very much doubt if APM will lose the elections because of his virtually unknown runningmate but the DPP have genuine fear that can their to be vice president run the affairs of their party and govt should anything happen to the president? That should also motivate them to have the constitution reviewed.

  15. We can’t have leaders who are suffering from dementia! All oldies need to be sent packing on May 21. Givernment is not for Nkhalamba😂😂😂😂

  18. Is he the one who said leadership is not for babies? He can’t remember his fellow cabinet minister so how does he remember our budget.

  21. Is he worth remembering? Had it not for the name Everton football team, I wouldn’t remember either.

  22. If you dont know his name how can you know whether he is a right choice.

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