Mutharika submits no basis for Malawi fresh elections: Suleman demonstrated ‘sheer ignorance’ of MEC results system
President Peter Mutharika’s final submissions to the Constitutional Court in a case which the opposition are challenging his re-election of in May, has maintained that the petitioners – Saulos Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera – have failed to prove in court that presidential results were manipulated; hence, asked the court not to nullify the results and no need for fresh elections.
Nyasa Times verified with Mutharika‘s lead lawyer Frank Mbeta the authenticity of the documents ahead of the oral submissions in court this week.
Mutharika is the first respondent in the case and was declared winner of the May 21 elections.
In the case, Chilima and Chakwera are seeking nullification of the presidential election results over alleged irregularities in the results management system and an order for a rerun.
But in the submissions, Mutharika through his legal team argue that there were no irregularities that would change the results of the presidential elections hence no basis of annulling the results.
The submissions also quashes Daud Suleman, an information technology (IT) expert hired by MCP during the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, who made an elections data simulation in court to indicate that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) results management system was compromised.
Mutharika submits that Suleman did not understand the MEC results management system (RMS) and that he does not have proper Microsoft qualification and was burnt on misleading the Constitution Court.
“My Lady my Lords, it would only be proper to understand Sulemani’s shifting of goal posts on the servers and indeed his failure to understand most of the RMS operations if one considers his qualifications,” reads part of the submission filed by Mutharika’s lead counsel Mbeta.
Mbeta has buttered the point on Suleman’s professional qualifications and expertise in IT.
“Suleman’s Microsoft qualifications only make sense to him as his purported Microsoft Certificate has no date including the period for which he was certified. Suleman failed to pull out his transcript for his Microsoft Certification on the Microsoft website just as any person holding Microsoft qualifications would do online.
“Instead, and indeed to the disbelief of many, Suleman went into his email address and only sowed the Court his Microsoft Student Identity Number. It does not require a genius to know that once a person register for a course with recognised institutions, a student identity number will be assigned to that person, we submit that such student identity number does not in any way prove a person’s attainment of the particular qualification,” reads the submission in part.
It says, besides in respect to his CISCO Network qualification, Suleman voluntarily exhibited a transcript.
“One wonders why the Microsoft transcript was never exhibited nor pulled from the Microsoft website if not for the more probable conclusion that such Microsoft certification did not exist.”
Mbeta argues that Suleman’s “extremely doubtful” Microsoft qualification and his own admission that he is not a certified IT Auditor (no CICA certification) “clearly makes his competence in Microsoft systems like the RMS extremely questionable and therefore he would not be competent to undertake exercises that would otherwise be done by properly certified IT Auditors.
He further submits that Suleman demonstrated “sheer ignorance” of the RMS processes thereby making “erroneous opinions” and conclusion.
“We therefore submit that all his opinions and conclusions be disregarded for being non-expert opinions and also coming from a person whose competence in Microsoft systems is highly doubtful,” reads the submissions.
The petitioners have their submissions also been filed and focus on irregularities that occurred in the election and how MEC failed to remedy those irregularities as required by law, saying the electoral body failed in its constitutional obligations.
The lawyers for MEC have also filed final submissions in response to the submissions by the opposition challengers.
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Peter Mutharika, If you won the elections, why have you been trying to bribe the judges? Why were those three men found in the court’s ceiling? Did they not confess to have been hired & sent by you & MEC? Why did you hire Mayamiko Nkoloma of Polytechnic to perform some dirty work in Mulanje? Why have you been holding night meetings with your lawyers? If you and you girlfriend Jane Ansah do not confess now, then your sins will find you out. Time is running short for you two. “Wobisa machimo ake sadzaona mwayi!”
Peter Mutharika you don’t love yourself, at your age stealing? clinging to a post which doesn’t belong to you…. Cardiac arrest will struck you soon …
Mbeta, you had all the time to fight Suleiman expertise through cross examination, your Muhabi Chisi also had all the time to discredit Suleiman testimony and 65 paged submission but never did. By the way do you know that passing miscrosoft certification requires big brains unlike passing IT exams at Chanco or Poly?
Kungoti this is politics and everyone sees and hears what they want to see and hear. No doubt the judges will also lean one way or the other instinctively and in the end it might not be a unanimous decision. But expecting Mbeta to deal with Suleiman’s facts is wrong. Mbeta did not represent MEC, he can’t possibly go into MEC computers to check what Suleiman is saying. He can only assess Suleiman’s credibility. Let’s say TB Joshua says that GOD has told him that the election was rigged. If we don’t know how he communicates with GOD and we ourselves can’t listen to that conversation or whatever system he uses, we can still dismiss his assertions by saying if he is able to speak with GOD why did he not know that his own building would collapse and kill people, why cant he help locate where MH360 is? Etc.
U will face it
Living in a DPP bubble with blue utopia, decorated by crooked lawyers. Foolish men who rather support den of thugs when they fully know Justice was robbed. Seleman’s simulations remains undisputed with clinical precision how violations were conducted by Ghost hackers & personal emails etc.
Once ddp is out we need to arrest their leader for all the pillars of corruption and his followers. its time we demonstrate that Law needs to be respected…osamvaso chisoni kuti ndi agogo arrest them all. They have killed our brothers only to make themselves gods of Mother Malawi, but we have our God and surely we will run you over..
Wakuwopanji ndiye kuti wadaberadi. Ndipo waluza zako . One of the opposition will take over from you. Chimunthu chachabechabe
Mr Tippiex. Wether you won or not we don’t care about that, we care about our country! You are very old to be head of the state in this 21 century because your brain is dead so please leave this country in young men’s hands. I hope if you are true Malawian you will very proud of these young men how they gonna develop this Nation. Can you just accept you have failed and you failed this country to develop in the first term nothing you can do in the next 5years. But if you will try fight to force yourself to be a leader of this country you gonna die badly and go to hell badly ’cause we do not want you as a leader of this nation. Stupid old Animal.
Chimpando chokakamila icho mugwa nacho ngati wa late waja wa munthalikaaa woyamba uja. Inu phee fupa lokakamiza ilo inu wa DPP. Zitsilu inu ndi mbeta wanu uyo 😂😂😂😂.
Watch out you may the one going to land of silence. Remember yense wokumbira mnzake mbuna amagwamo yekha so who are u that u shud push somebody to the grave. Are u God? APM will live till 2024 just wait for the determination my friend
Muuzeni MBETA akwatile. Azakhala Mbeta mpaka litilo?
What about Mec forcing auditors to process results rejected by bdo? What about Ben phiri admiting irregulrities? What about Mec ceo admiting irregularities and fake forms being signed more than once?
MEC constitutionally has the final say so this is irrelevant. it’s mandate is to run a free fair and credible election. How the learned judges choose to view this is just our guess
According to Suleiman’s whom you are saying have no qualifications about internet users as an expert I See knowledge in him on how he explained to concourt judges on how the Microsoft works is exactly what chisi your so called graduated in IT Microsoft revealed in the the including that if there was a batch that means the person was on that was a ghost users. So don’t blame Suleiman . Well done for your and from what the court’s judgement according to the Law of Malawi and elections.
BASELESS ARGUMENT.THE ISSUE IS NOTE ABOUT QUALIFICATION.IF HE DEMONSTRATED USING MEC GADGETS THAT THERE WAS RESULT TAMPERING THAT IS ALL AND YOU CAN NOT REBUT THAT EVIDENCE
That’s wisdom my friend. Petitioners argued about irregularities not qualifications. If a qualified person lie then it is truth because he is qualified? Is truth based on qualifications?
Does Daud Suleman’s Qualifications matters most or what he presented to the CONcourt?
Why are you grinning?
ooooooooh its what mbeta can say lets wait for the verdict of the court, mbeta has won the case on the paper
If you really won, what are you afraid of? Why not accept to challenge them at another poll? Mutharika, you are a coward & a lier!
If the results were not manipulated, why then did you hire those three men who were found in the court’s ceiling? Did they not confess to have been hired by you & MEC? Why was Chanco Library set ablaze? “Wobisa machimo ake sadzaona mwayi” Limatero Bible!
Uuuuh mwene mabodza awo. Why did you not see their photos in media or being aired in electronic media?
well, wamisala anaona nkhondo……… He might not have a microsoft qualification, but whatever he demonstrated was seen to be exactly how RMS works. take it from me, muluza mlandu umenewu
He is theory about ghost approvals so laughable. This sulaimana ought to be jailed for misleading the bench
Even lawyers that are defending their knowledge is far behind ,they answer for the sake of fulfilling their purpose and job given to them.
kkkkkkk OK mbeta mbeta zakuvutatu apa ndithu submission yonse kungolimbanamo ndi qualification ya Sulemane Basi kkkkkkk iwe osekesa bwanji
This is just waste of time people who voted at home they need development but you readers need to fill your stomach. Five years is not a long time , live him rule. If you are winners wait after 5 years you will win. Tikufuna chitukuko osati milandu. We don’t eat cases please
Ataye ayise olo atati tivotenso sangawine anthu ankhanzawa. Adaluza adaluza basi.
Iwe Inga ur stupid…coz iwe ndi banja lako mukuduya zakuba look around u and see how many Malawians are suffering because of muthalika and dpp
Ha,ha,ha Mr Animal,. Mr Tippiex for all cases you have for killing Albino, supply Tippiex in MEC office, Corrupt this country and your legal team failed to stand by you in Court presenting fake Evidence. You still think to be a leader of this country, You must be joking nobody wants you as head of state. We have young men who are intelligents who can lead this country with concious. Not you old person go to hell.
Just accept the will of Malawians, we don’t need a weak president like you who just let your cabinet members to stealing the money for this country. You are very stupid old man l never seen! I am sure l can lead this country than you stupid than you old Animal.
It’s strange that Daud Suleiman is now being indicted in this submission, when in open court the repent lawyers failed to prove any part of Suleiman’s presentation to be wrong. I don’t know what legal experimentation this is?
Alhomwe ndi mtundu okuba and omvetsa chisonidi! You mean in 2019, you don’t know what Microsoft Certification is? Inuyodi tamangolimani gondolosi, you have nothing to offer to this country. The colonial settlers already saw these thieving traits. What a stupid grouping!!!! You believe the Judges are going to buy your ignorance?
what kind of tribalism is this. you are a shame to the human race. in every tribe there is good and bad. A negative mind has a negative future. learn to judge people as individuals and the world will be a better place. Even people who openly criticise Peter Mutharika like Ralph Kasambara have found a good thing in the Lomwe belt not once but twice so it wasn’t a mistake. His first born sons mother is from Thyolo and his wife from Mulanje. So lighten up, it’s never that serious.
Bit Chisi accepted ghost loggers,Private emails ,All that was out off order as per agreed regulations
Mmmm Chembeta? Mulandu si sulemani koma muyankhe zomwe anzanu afotokoza.
Hahah this is unheard for, u forget that u have Ben Phiri in your midst that possess pure fake Degrees and masters from unknown Jerusalem Bible College.
U focus on Suleman alot bcoz he has managed to hummer the last nail ie 6inches on the MEC RMS system.
U brought in Chisi your IT Expert who has done nothing to dispell what Suleman has demonstrated but to agree with him that indeed Ghost user was around the clock manipulating the system. Myisova nokha.
you fail to see that Daud went there as an IT expert that is why his credentials are important. on the other hand Ben went there as campaign director for the DPP and his credentials in answering the case were not relevant. He could have even been a witchdoctor and it wouldn’t matter
Mbeta You are so stupid, submissions its all about targeting someone’s qualification, Suleman showed clearly the court how Mec messed up elections, despite of having less or more irregularities, but the thing is Mec involved disputing the results by providing Tipex to the presiding officers.
This argument has been dismissed by the court twice and it would be dismissed for the third time. Never again should MEC and DPP take Malawians as fools. Malawians would never again allow anyone do that d it’s time to change our laws about elections to prevent future disaster.
It seems that the whole 54 days that the Concourt spent on hearing the landmark elections case, the whole Mutharika and MEC lawyers were hardly hit and tormented by Daud suleman’s simulation exhibits! Why the whole submissions are only focusing the qualifications of Suleman yet he told the court and even the University lecturer alluded that it is indeed possible for one to be an expert in IT but with questionable or poor academic qualifications! Mbeta and the company why only focusing on Suleman and Not Bendulo Mirriam Gwalidi all these testified in court! This simply means that you thought you would hide your crookedness of manipulation of election results in areas that Daud has uncovered in court! My thinking iis that Suleman has done it all and how I fear his life for uncovering the truth of the matter! ” Nkhanga zoona kale!!!!
No, nyasatimes cannot extract the whole submission, but decided only to dwell on Suleman part.
One thing is Frank Mbeta is incompetent himself and so delusional.
His wild imagination and scope of Suleman’s work being presented at the court is narrowly based at appeasing his boss.
Let’s wait and see if the concourt will eat from the palm of his hand.
If indeed it is true, then the first respondents are missing it through and through. Much as a witness needs credibility, you can not dwell on the Suleman because his track record proved those certificates.
Koma Jerusalem qualification ? Kkkkkkkk
Seriously Mr Mbeta your argument is the qualification of Suleman? And you want the courts to uphold APMs win? You must be joking. Anything on MEC Commissioners abrogating their responsibilities not to present their affidavits,, no minutes of their resolutions?
Who can be more ignorant of MEC systems, a person in a legal profession or a person who has worked with computers as his full-time job? Mbeta has missed the point by dwelling on discrediting Suleman’s qualifications instead of disproving the actual simulation by Suleman and where it was leading to. Mbeta’s seemingly emotional submission stems from failing to demonstrate how Mutharika resoundingly trounced his opponents and his argument is much of an arrogant presentation as if everything was normal during the electoral process.
There was no way Mutharika could with a genuine vote against the backdrop of prevailing problems such as albino killings, electricity blackouts, rampant corruption, inflation, tribalism, and social problems. The old man has never been loved by the majority people in Malawi and he is forcing himself on the throne. Peter Mutharika’s late brother(may his soul rest in peace) was a a darling of the people due to his convincing performance in his first term , but DPP started losing steam after his demise.
Mbeta should stop fooling Malawians together with his idiot comrade Kaphale who is already having a conflict of interest. We need a new beginning for our country and not being ruled by people who have no future for the people who pay taxes. The country is moving backwards at an alarming rate while a small country like Rwanda is prospering because of leadership intelligence. By the way, why are Malawians paying people like Mutharika himself, Ben Phiri, Kaphale and other DPP psychopaths because they are not serving them and some of them have cheated on qualifications?
How about Ben Phiri and Chimkango’s testimony, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣