Chakwera unopposed as MCP convention elects Sidik Mia new Vice President : ‘Nkholokolo’ no show at indaba
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is going ahead with its elective convention despite threats of legal challenge by the party embattled secretary general Gustave Kaliwo and has elected Mohammed Sidik Mia as new Vice President of the party replacing Speaker Richard Msowoya as party president Lazarus Chakwera was unchallenged.
Atleast K100 million has been set aside for the 1000 delegates who are parricipating at the indaba in Lilongwe.
Conspicously missing from the delegates list are the “big five” of the party; Kaliwo, who was reinstated as the party’s secretary general on Thursday, Richard Msowoya who was restored as first vice-president, Tony Kandiero brought back as director of international affairs, James Chatonda Kaunda as first deputy secretary general and publicity secretary Jessie Kabwila, who had been fired, who are likely to lose their positions by Sunday.
Second deputy secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka has aleady put up his name to replace Kaliwo.
Kaliwo, who was reinstated into his position this week, told reporters at a press conference in Blantyre that ssconvention in Lilongwe as ‘illegal’.
He said: “Two issues are quite clear; that two days ago, I was reinstated in my capacity as the MCP secretary general. Another is that the party decided to go behind my back and call for a convention which I, as party chief executive, has not sanctioned.
“Notwithstanding my being shortchanged, the deecision to hold a convention does not have blessings from party vice-president and treasurer general.
“In this regard, according to the party constitution, the national executive committee [NEC] that endorsed this decision is illegal and there is no convention.”
Lawyer Wesley Namasala said the MCP is not in cotempt of court in calling for the convention which ends on Sunday.
The list shows that Chakwera renews his mandate, unopposed, as president; Sidik Mia as vice-president, Harry Mkandawire elected second vice-president.
Joseph Njobvuyalema will vie for the position of secretary general against Reverend Maurice Munthali (Retired), and lawyer Paul Maulidi.
Four people—Cornerious Mwalwanda, Evance Kamala, Nick Yiannakis and Rhino Chiphiko will battle it out for the post of treasurer general.
Other notable names are Ken Kandodo, who will seek to be elected as director of strategic planning. He will battle it out with Zikhale Ng’oma and Lawrence Kajawo.
Legislator Sosten Gwengwe, who was former president Joyce Banda’s running-mate will seek to be elected as the party’s director of economic affairs.
Gotani Hara, who served in Joyce Banda’s administration as a Cabinet minister, is contesting for the post of second deputy national campaign director for which she will battle it out with Maclean Ndafakale.
Vincent Mwale, a member of the party from Dedza explained in an interview that he travelled to Lilongwe with his fellow supporters on Friday morning after hearing of the dates for the convention
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GRM,I have never never seen a broke-head Malawian like you in my all life.You never find Arabs in Chikwawa,the guy you are referring to (MIA) is an Arab from Arabia or another name the Middle East. We don’t have Arabs in Malawi or Southern Africa as a whole,these people are foreigners in our countries.The owners of these countries are: Yaos,Senes,Lomwes,Ngonis,Shonas,Ndebeles,Makondes Shanganis,Tumbukas,Chewas the list is long,so be informed that Mia is a foreigner from Arabia or Middle East.It is sad that as a Malawian Mr.GRM,you do not know what you are talking about you guillible monster.KNOW YOUR HISTORY,MIA AND HIS WIFE ARE NEITHER MALAWIANS NOR AFRICANS.
Chakwera wachotsa msowoya because he is a tumbuka. Inu akumpoto mukumusapotabe simudzatheka. He is throwing it in your face
MR.Gwemula,do you have all the senses in your head? i don’t comprehend your gibberish.What did you intend to write? You talk of RWANDA AND BURUNDI,but as uninformed buffoon,you don’t know anything about these two countries.As a Freelance Journalist,I covered the bloody conflict soon after the carnage and it was an imaginable state of the situation to see people of the same culture and language cut one another’s throat with brutal unmerceyfullness.So,what do you have to tell me on Rwanda and Burundi taking into account that you are un educated fool even if people can throw to a lion,it will never eat you.When did you last eat rat?
TIYANJANE,candidly,you are not a learned Malawian and find it difficult reading what you have written and I do not comprehend what you wanted to express yourself.First and formost,B.Muluzi is a pure Malawian and aboveall, he is an African and he ruled an African State.Contrary,S.Mia is an Arab and a foreigner.You embacile,can’t you see the difference between the two people?Tiayanjane,your narration does not equalise with a man’s intelligence,a goat might have a sharper brains than you.Iam still leaving outside my country because Iam accepted as a citizen of Africa,Iam not regarded as a Mutumbuka,Iam not regarded as a Hinya,Mbwenu, Chikangawa and all sorts of idiotic names in my fatherland and I did not experience the bloody quota system when I was in school in exile.So Mr. Tiyanjane,try to arrange your rotten brains smartly so that you write sensible materials.Do you know that Arabs regard Africans as KAFFIRS (MONSTERS)? Can you pin-point one African State in Southern Africa which has an Arab Leader? Indeed,a fool is fool!!!!!!!
North. Central and South MCP woyeeee
Kaliwo sitikumva m chipani chathu cha mcp,atsatile nkholokolo izake felex jumbe ku DPP
A rushed convention. Ndalama zayankhula. Open-door policy has enabled alendo to take big positions.
these are the very same faces we have been seeing through the ages in udf pp dpp now mcp.realy do we have no other choice per the seventeen million malawians .God come to our rescue.
The lawyer Namasala or Masala is saying that MCP is not in contempt of court, of course it is not & that is not what Kaliwo is saying. All we need to hear is the issue which Kaliwo is raising that him as a CEO of the party after being reinstated he is not the one who called for the Convention as stipulated by the MCP Constitution. Is this true that the MCP constitution says so???????? Please enlighten us on 5 his issue.
I still strongly and nationalistically oppose the oppointment of an Arab Mia as Vice President. If Chakwera did not like Richard Msowoya because is a Northerner and the hated Tumbuka,there are so many qualified Malawians from other ethnicities or tribes Some of misguided baffoons think that my choice of R.Msowoya is based on tribal affiliation,not atall.My point here is that Suppose Mia leads a Malawian delegation let’s say to the SADC Conference,what would other African States think of Malawians? And if there could be an issue of secrecy pertaining to the Middle East,would the SADC delegations feel free to discuss this in the presence of an Arab from Middle East? In Zambia,after the demise of Mwanawasa,a white Zambian was unanimously elected to fill the gap,some few Zambians rejected him despite the fact that this white was born in Zambia and spoke a dozen of local languages fluently.This fiasco has put Malawians on tight corner and Chakwera with his misguided and Arab-led MCP,he has many questions to answer.Mia and his wife are vigorously holding the mantle of the MCP and Chakwera is just a villainous Islamic servile.He has sold our country for his personal gains like Banda when he sold our country to the Western Imperialists for his own gains.Malawians,it is time to differentiate between good and bad and I have no doubt in my mind that under Chakwera,Malawi has become a NEO-ARABIC STATE.
Mr. Msowoya, your are right. In any case, its hard to swallow that Mia could be Vice President assuming that the said party stumbles into government in 2019. Honestly speaking, Arabs do not protect Christian values. Fellow Arabs will encourage him to cast terror into the hearts of people they call infidels. Read their religious literature in particular Quran 3:151; 9:123; and 8:39. However, it is comforting that Mia is not automatically a running mate.
What Christian values?killing albinos ,sex with amai a mvano,stealing from the poor ..The same Christians giving lucrative contracts to Muslims of Asian origins ..Your Christian president is giving away our land to Asian Muslims in the name of development..Christians are a shame ,they don’t have any values ..Bora kungokhala m’ngoni..Christians and Muslims have no values..
Grace, peace, faith, hope, love, justice, joy and service. These are Christian values that relate Christian identity in identifying politics. They influence good behaviour and action. They inspire and encourage individuals. They denote the importance of action with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what is best to live. For instance, promoting legislation against the killing of albino people or same sex marriages or supporting laws against homosexuality. One can do no better than return to what is good, true and right. Generally, Christian values relate to political positions based on the interests and perspective of social groups that people identify. Besides, Christians look for opportunities to bring peace wherever possible as it is a social good which indicates that a community is functioning well and in harmony. True peace requires justice, and no Christian can live complacently with injustice. Those are the sort of values I was referring to that need protection. Not those based on “an eye for eye” code or covert or be killed. However, the word Christian values has various applications and meanings such that specific definitions vary widely among denominations or school of thought. As for the rest of your comment, please adduce electronic evidence that purport to indicate that Christian president is awarding contracts and land to Muslims of Asian of origins. Explain if procedures in the award of such contracts and land are being flouted.
Mr. Msowoya, you seem to have forgotten that a Moslem ruled Malawi for 10 years.. Why are you so full of hate? Your comments show a person who is not at peace with himself. May be that is why you are hiding in diaspora instead of coming home to fight for a better malawi as you would wish. By the way, Ru,phim your ancestors home has a white MP who also is a very good vimbuza dancer. She is a darling of your prople!! Sorry dada Msowoya
He is afraid of Kamuzu Banda ,a big old coward
In my entire lyf i never seen heatred idiot lyk this evil! Well i know that u were behind msowoya and Gustavo kaliwo. Wait Gustavo is going to call another convention soon he will choose right people including u demn shithole. Where was u when great America choose Obama?
(IDIOT)
Are you sure? You call a person from Chikwawa an Arab? Then call Alomwe Mozambicanso, Angoni South Africans, Achewa people from Congo
You are very pathetic Winston Musowoya not msowoya how can you say that you are musowoying hatred in malawi i don’t want to remind you about Rwanda and Burundi so please shut
This is a man with brains in his shoes ,he is using a slave masters name “Winston”.He seeked refugee in a slave masters country ,used welfare support from the slave masters ..He calls himself Canadian when it suites him,he choose to forget that Obama was born from a Kenyan father and later voted into the highest office in USA..This man Winston Msowoya was once Kanyama Chiumes cook in Tanzania ,he was never a dissident or freedom fighter .He cannot return to Malawi because he has nothing in Malawi, his bank balance is zero ,no house .All he has is his village ,a pathetic old liar ..
Mwina nkholokolo zili pa Ma ARV
Is this MCP or PP convention?
If its a PP convention then am afraid, DPP wont stand the heat as PP is likely to work with MCP
Harry Mkandawire is a shrewd politician. Infiltrating MCP up to grab mpando umenwu? Can the dust settle now?
We are waiting.
On the other hand, it looks this was an endorsement meeting not much of a convention.
The journey has been tortuous now that the gangsters have hazy future we expect the MCP to throw out Richard Msowoya from the speaker’s chair. Bakili booted out Mpaso Biyeni as the speaker by appointing a minister so this Richard must not taste the speaker’s pension he is a qualified moron. They held the DPP machinations on their laps now the frogs are the boiling pot which marks the expiry of their political effectiveness in the MCP, I am in love with Felix Jumbe because he crossed into DPP ranks in the daylight. Not the hyaenas. They’ve been making a lot of braying aunt Kabwila is nursing wounds from self spearing the political road is just a mirage your crew won’t cry with you because the boys have failed in the courts Kaliwo a qualified lawyer with Kalekeni Kaphale both in the legal mud
MALAWI NEEDS PROFESSORS /DOCTORS WHO CAN /WILL CONVERT /TRANSLATE THEIR BRAINS INTO SOLUTIONS FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE ON THE GROUND IN VILLAGES –MANY SELF STYLED PROFESSORS /DOCTORS HAVE FAILED MOTHER MALAWI FULL TIME —
FOR SOME PEOPLE TO BE CALLED A PROFESSOR /DOCTOR IS A BIG BIG MOCKERY TO AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COUNTRY AS A WHOLE
CONSIDERING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS —
A COUNTRY WITH SO MANY PROFESSORS /DOCTORS ON PAPERS -BY PAPERS BUT NO BRAINS TO TURN THE COUNTRY INTO A LAND OF MILK AND HONEY !!
SHAME !! SHAME !!
Mukuwona ngati Harry Mkandawire akuthandizani? Mufumbenge dankha pakuchita vinthu image bakongilesi!
WE WILL CHALLENGE THIS IN COURT. MK100 MILLION HAS GONE DOWN THE DRAIN.
Kuthetsa kunyoza, nanga winawe utani tsopano? Ukabweza changetu?kkkkki
Congratulations Malawi Congress Party for setting the pace for a peaceful and orderly convention. As the mother of all parties in Malawi it is important to hold a convention in a peaceful manner. Malawi is our country together and there is no reason for party officials to fight over positions. It is always important for people of Malawi to work together in peace for the sake of progress.
It always amazes me that from the earliest historical times Malawians of all tribes have always been a peaceful people – ready to co-exist with those speaking a different language, eating different food, belonging to a different tribal stokes or indeed subscribing to different political ideologies. It is for this reason that those political parties that have not discovered the beauty of peaceful conventions must learn from MCP otherwise they will soon become a monument in the history of Malawi. The greatest asset Malawi has had over the years is its peace and it is important for every citizen to ensure that this asset is protected at all cost.
I congratulate honorables Chakwera, Mia and Mkandawire for making it to the party’s top most positions in that order. My plea is that they will continue to ensure that the party remains a beacon of peace in Malawi politics. May they continue to live in peace between and among them so that the party can begin to make a meaningful contribution to the social-cultural, social-economic and social-political avenues of the country. Malawi needs parties that do not only champion peace but also demonstrate that peaceful existence among Malawians is possible.
It is in this vein that I ask AFORD leadership(s!) to consider sorting out their differences the soonest. Malawians that are old enough will recall that AFORD was one of the political groupings that made a significant difference during the transition to multi-party politics. It beats my heart when I see different AFORD leaders failing to work with one another. Malawi needs a peaceful AFORD, a peaceful DPP and a peaceful PP if progress is to be registered in Malawi in the near future. It is always important to remember that the strength of any country is in the diversity of its citizens. It is the diversity of skills that builds nations all over the world.
Once again, I congratulate MCP for holding a peaceful convention. It is my hope that things will continue to run smoothly in the next two days remaining. Malawi needs peace for development to begin to happen. We have been here for too long. For 25 years Malawi has not moved. We have kept on retrogressing despite abundant resources that we have.
Kent Y.G. Mphepo – Blantyre.
This is a PP convention. Look at the names. Chakwera don’t be excited with party destroyers.
Nanunso inu, kodi mumakhala ku Malawi kapena kunja kwa Malawi? Between PP and MCP, which one is older than the other?
Why ask obvious things! All people from UDF, DPP, AFORD PP etc were once MCP members and it is illogical for you to claim that they are PP…………. rather they were MCP, got lost and are back to MCP………………………………………………………!! Enafe tikudziwa zimene mukudana nazo ndipo si nkhani ya mtundu wa chipani koma zomwe zija zanu za natural hatred ……………………………………..taziponyani uko zimenezo tonse ndife a Malawi………………………………….. as God’s creation you need not have permanent enemies……………………………!! Abale, umfiti, chani…………………………?
Then it’s DPP as well coz we know Harry Mkandawire and Sidik Mia Former DPP.
I have a feeling that the court will nullify the resolution of this convention. But what is democracy? if the majority of people have agreed that this is how things should be why should Kaliwo hold them to ransom? Pezani china chochita baba. You are becoming a disgrace. Do you have a family or friends? What do they tell you?
Kkkkkkki tamufunsanidi ameneyu.
Sacheza ndi munthu. Ask people of Thondwe where he lives. No wonder he lost miserably in 2014
Nkholokolo zathawa kuwopa kuchititsidwa manyazi zitabwila mabanzi a DPP. Chakwera,Mia, Harry Mkandawire 2019 boma.
Koma ikakhala DPP ndiye nyo nyo nyo kusokosa inu a dzukamalawi apa bwanji mbusa wanuyi akuphwanya malamulo a convention kaliwo ndi loyatu sangaphwanye malamulo koma a Chakwera makani chncho mungalamulire inu a daily times ndikukujambulani katuni simupha amene wajambulayo siao Gotani mk’ndawire angoma akujowinani amewonso muwanene kuti mahule maritayad .Chimene ndaona ine maganizo anga dzikoli akuonnga ndi anthu a zamalamulo achosa bwanji chiletso mwini wake palibe waitanitsa convetion ndindani poti SG palibe eeeeeeee hmmmm MCP makani simunasiyebe 2019 ifike Mia alire kuti ndalamazanga ine chakwera undibwezere wandipusitsa kuti MCP iwina aaaaaaa mayoooooo
Speaking like JZU of abongololo fame. Now you call people with differing views “Nkholokolo”. What is this? The mindset of people in this party of death and darkness will never indeed change.