Ex Attorney General Kasambara posts congratulations to Chilima, Chakwera on ‘winning’ Malawi poll case

February 3, 2020 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 22 Comments

Former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara has been the first to congratulate  opposition presidential Saulos Chilima of UTM Party and Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) for “winning” the election petition case before the final ruling by the panel of five judges.

While the  panel of judges handling the case including  Healey Potani, Ivy Kamanga, Dingiswayo Madise, Mike Tembo and Dr Redson Kapindu were delivering their judgement, Kasambara posted on his Facebook page to post his congratualtions to the petitioners.

Chilima and Chakwera were jointly asking the court to nullify the presidential poll results. They are the first and second petitioners, respectively.

The two dragged the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to court after the electoral body declared President Peter Mutharika of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)t he winner in the elections.

Their case premised that the poll results were fraught with irregularities and that the electoral process was mismanaged by MEC.

Despite the court finishing making ist determination, their ruling finds that there was wide-spread use of Tippex to alter results which was a serious irregularity.

The judges also ruled that MEC instructed BDO  auditors to approve manually altered result sheets.

“We find this to be a serious irregularity,” the court said.

Additionally, MEC conceded that it beamed result sheets on a screen before auditors verified the results.

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22 replies on “Ex Attorney General Kasambara posts congratulations to Chilima, Chakwera on ‘winning’ Malawi poll case”

  2. Congratulations from a Mafia. A top rate opportunist. Do use a long spoon when dining with devil. He won’t hoodwink Malawian once more

  3. some of you so called ordinaly Malawian.whether you hate genius Kasambara you are wasting your time. the fact is DPP has lost the case.

      1. kodi akazo ukawagwila akuchindidwa unganenenso kuti mayi akonso iwenso amapanga zomwenso ????? zomwe wagwila iweyozo nzomwe zikufunika ndiye izooo zoti ma mps footsekiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii an mwachepaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa simungabele mavote mugwidwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

      1. Unfortunately it might just be the beginning. While Lilongwe will go back to peace and calm the southern region once calmer in times of protesting will revert to tit for tat demos.

        I for once have gained some hope restored in our justice system.

        But it has faulted with its full and final judgement.

        While the constitutional court was absolutely right and spot on regarding nullifying the elections. The court have missed one important step while setting the country back to default setting regarding the president and Vice President.

        The point the constitutional court should have said Is the new rerun election to be fair and a level playing ground that each party and candidate should remain the same and no alliances can be made. Maybe it is not in there jurisdiction.

        Now here comes the appeal process either to bar new alliances or to stop an uneven election.

        The end might be near like the other comment suggest as well but I said it 3 months before the 21st may election that SKC was created to snatch votes from MCP and divide those votes.

        Time will tell.

    2. Zako izo, uphulika wekha. Not yet with who? chabwino mwawina ndinu Ife talekako kikkkkkkk phutchete yanga iyi!😂😂😂

  8. A convict that Kasambara is wants to win the hearts of Rev C and Chilima. Accepting Kasambara in public life is to revert to the bad past of bribery and corruption

    1. Imagine Kasambara creeping out of his rat hole to congratulate MCP and UTM leaders and yet he is a convicted murderer out on bail. Ther is no smoke without a fire.

  9. Only in Malawi are convicts respected. We ought to have been spared frequent updates from kasambara. He is perfect example of how lawyers cheat the justice system. No journalist should quote him. Period

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