Henry Mussa ‘recuses’ himself from DPP appointed position

September 3, 2020 Nyasa Times Reporter 43 Comments

Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) veteran politician Henry ‘Mtengowaminga’ Mussa has opted not to take  the position of deputy publicity secretary of the party citing a number of reasons.

Henry ‘Mtengowamninga’ Mussa: I would like to recuse myself for taking up the offered position for now

In a letter Nyasa Times has seen dated 29 August, 2020 and addressed to the party’s secretary general and copied to the party president Peter Mutharika, Mussa says “it is with considerable regret and emotional pain that I would like to recuse myself for taking up the offered position for now”.

“I have struggled a lot to reach this decision but I have ultimately resolved that given the circumstances and in conformity with both my personal and political principles, recusing myself from taking up the said position remains the best option.

“For the sake of removing any potential doubt, I would like to emphasize that I have not in any way rejected the position but rather recused myself from taking it up,” reads the letter in part.

Mussa says the office of the party spokesperson issued a communique emanating from the Central Executive Committee meeting as held separately on the 4th and 27th August 2020 in Mangochi in which it communicated a number of resolutions including interim appointments where he was offered appointment to the position of deputy spokesperson of the party.

He expressed his “very profound gratitude”  to Mutharika and the entire Central Executive Committee for entrusting him with the said position, “which goes a long way in demonstrating the unconditional trust the party has in both my political and experiential capabilities to assist in steering the agenda of the party as we together strive to re-organize and strengthen our party in readiness for our comeback in 2024 as well as in sustaining DPP’s unparalled legacy as formidably built and later successfully extended and solidified by His Excellency Professor Bingu Wa Mutharika (may his gracious soul continue resting in eternal peace) and Professor Peter Mutharika, our current leader, respectively. I honestly felt and continues to feel very humbled by such a recognition.”

However, Mussa contends that both the position of party spokesperson (main and deputy) were contested for at the party’s national convention and that Nicholas Dausi emerged “constitutionally legitimate and mandated holder of the position and until the Central Executive Committee meeting, which resolved to appoint me to the said position in deputy capacity.”

He argued: “There has never been any official communication that the incumbent holder of the position has either quit the position on his own volition for personal or political reasons or been suspended and even removed for breach of party code of conduct as enshrined in party constitution.

“I therefore developed this apprehension that in taking up the position I might be risking  complicity in breaching DPP constitution, something I would strongly refrain from doing having been party to formation of DPP and therefore obliged to be exemplary in upholding and protecting its constitution unconditionally.”

Mussa also contends that as someone who has held a number of senior elected positions in the party including that of Treasurer General, he finds himself “in such an awkwardly impossible position to take up a position I thought was still in principle being  held by another senior colleague in the party with whom I have worked closely since the inception of our beautiful Blue Movement and Family without creating fertile ground for political conspiracy theories that I have been part of a coup detat to remove my senior colleague from the position so that I should be party to taking it up”.

“This perception would be very much buoyed by the reality that I have not been holding any substantive position in the party since the last elective convention though I have been playing active voluntary political role as part of the DPP rearguard. I have therefore also been psychologically emboldened by this political dilemma to recuse myself from taking up the position,” says Mussa.

Newly-appointed spokesperson Brown Mpinganjira said Mussa has the right to accept or reject the position “but the party will have to move on with or without him”.

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43 replies on “Henry Mussa ‘recuses’ himself from DPP appointed position”

  1. Those who know Henry Mussa well, would he have refused this appointment if DPP had still been in power? I doubt it very much….

  4. The problem with Henry Mussa is that he overrates himself. The way the Party looks at him and the way he regards himself are two different things. To the party, he is “deputy” material. To himself, he is presidential material. Samasiyana ndi Chenji Golo in terms of overrating themselves.

  5. It simply shows that there is poor leadership in dpp. These days you need a very energetic person to run up and down. APM is more than 80 years old and you still want him to run dpp? He makes Mpinganjira who is not one of the founders of dpp to be a boss to Henry “mbava” Mussa ? Olo atandithira doom mkamwa sindingavomere.

  6. Henry mussa is an opportunist. Did you see him campaigning for APM during this past election? The guy was at his home full time when his friends were campaigning. Mu DPP anachokamo kalekale otherwise he was just waiting for positions if DPP was to win. Njoka muudzu.

  7. Mongokumbutsana, Frank Joab Chakhaza of ZBS ndiosakwatira koma imvi zili thoooo ngati za Henry Mussazi. Kodi akazi okongola onsewa samamutotetsa? Umbomboo chani? Kudzisunga mpakana 48 years? Koma injini imanyamuka zenizeni a Joab?

  8. mbava inaso iyi. imangodula matikiti a ndege pompo pompo kupita koona Agrina koma kumati wapita ku nsonkhano. paujeni pake. anali mphawi uyu akukhala ku location yoyandikana ndi Kwacha Bt.mxiii.
    akhale ku dpp konko dhemeti

  9. It’s understandable. How do make a veteran like him deputy to the most useless person like Brown Mpinganjira. BJ watha zipani. BJ watha azimayi. He isn’t someone to trust. He is dustbin stuff.

  10. Kodi abalee, mukuti kwataninso ku diphwiphwi? Eeiii, koma yikakuwona litsilo bamboo. Kukhala katanii, eii, koma kutha nsanga kwakee.

  11. Henry Mussa ndi wa MCP wa pa phata. Last shadow cabinet ya Kamuzu anali minister of Transport, UDF ikulamula. Amakhala ku Mandala near Mudi House I have a picture that shadow cabinet . Mkazi wake Agrina ndiye anali wa UDF. Henry Mussa atagula Mandala Insurance yomwe anali Manager nkuisintha kukhala Eagle Insurance ndi mmene anaiwerenga kukalowa UDF then ma insurance onse a boma anapita kwa iyeyo. Thats why analowa DPP msanga kutsatira Bingu. Pano palibe chomwe angakhalire mu DPP. ngati ndikunama Mr Henry Mussa mundikane ndiye ndiulula zina ndi zinatu.

  12. Tinakuiza Maliseche wakalamba. Akulephera kuyrndetsa chipani koma munkati ayendetse dziko. Komanso Maliseche mutu wake sugwiratu, akungosankha ma udindo mu chipani ? Ali m’boma anthu amamumvera kungomupasa ulemu kwina kuti aye nawo.

  13. APM does not understand the dynamics of the people around him, he is sooooo out of touch, totally clueless,

  14. Anything BJ touches turns into stone. Remember NDA and his stint at PP, UDF, Pay Acting with MCP…
    BJ lied by saying Dausi remains the party’s spokesperson.
    I am just waiting for the day APM will recuse himself. DPP is definitely on it’s way out and that’s what happens to an institution that sustains itself through corruption, thieving, plunder and anything else that is bad governance. Channels of illicit funding, I.e. procurement, construction, parastatals, favours have closed resulting in DPP ending on a sick bed.

  15. When we say APM is clueless we mean it he does not understand the personalities of his inner circle, Deputizing Henry Mussa to Mpinganjira is an insult to Henry Mussa

    1. I totally agree with you Maliseche. There is no way someone who was once Treasurer General can be given a position that is slightly lower. The best that can happen to DPP is that Peter Mutharika must leave the party as soon as possible so that it can start rebuilding. With Peter still clinging to power DPP is surely heading for its ultimate end.

  17. Please Tonse, spare us from Henry Mussa!
    He is also one of this frontline politicians of the multiparty aera, in different parties and different portfolios, also as minister, but apart from enriching himself and sweet talk a real none performer! Fact is, multiparty democracy made us poorer, and he is also one of the contributing factors! Even the people of Lirangwe didn’t want him anymore! On political stage We need to finish with this recycling system Mr. President and your VP, we can’t afford liabilities and we have plenty of fresh young blood around!

  19. Mr Mussa is full of himself, was he not consulted?? was he not in the meeting?? what is going on here??, does he think he is just too big for a deputy position??? …timasuleni!??

  21. Why can’t this party just call for an early convention???? what is the problem???? ……NO FUNDS!!!!

  25. This is the sign of the cracks in DPP that we’ve been talking about. Will the centre hold?

    When did Mpinganjira join DPP straight to an appointed position? And yet he has the audacity to say of Mussa, ” … the party will have to move on with or without him “. This is rudeness to Mussa, an old soldier of the DPP. That’s BJ for you. He’ll be the cause of the total disintegration of the party. Mark my words!

  26. If you know Henry Mussa the way I do any position in DEPUTY CAPACITY is demeaning to him, it is below him, He would rather be the man in charge

  27. Mr Mussa, I think mwaganiza mosakhala bwinotu, inuyo timaganiza kuti kenako mukhale President wathu in 2084! Kikkkkk Henz wathawa mtela uli pa phale! Uthawa kuchipimo ng’anga itatsizina! Koma man Henz inuyo simunapange bhooo!

  29. APM used to complain that Henry Mussa was extremely corrupt and had enriched himself with by abusing his Ministerial position. A crook who should be held accountable for the corruption and bribes he has received.

  31. Henry Mussa has explained himself very well. If it was wrong to fire or replace the SG because she was elected at a convention then the same should apply to everyone else. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”

    1. VERY INTERESTING

      Goosey goosey gander,
      Wither dost thou wander?
      Only through the Rhineland,
      Pray excuse my blunder!

  34. Mussa is about to dump the DPP. Of course. You don’t need to be a genius to realize this. But while he sounds reluctant to be part of a coup now, he never worried about this when he was part of the “midnight six” after the demise of Daniel Phiri. Odd. I suspect he doesn’t want to associate too closely with his party now, since the ACB is actively digging into what DPP treasurers did with the parastatals in the past six years. Word on the street is that Nankhumwa, another party treasurer, was nabbed by the police a day or so ago, although he might have been released the same day.

  36. Vuto ndi spokesperson uyu watsopanoyu. This party should go back to the drawing board after the presidential election loss. New blood mainly from the youth should lead this party. We need an urgent convention to elect new office bearers who are not suspects of trust. They should summon all constituencies to submit names for interviews and shortlist those who can compete for positions.

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