Mutharika warns against rigging Malawi elections: Spits fire ‘I will go after you, tikufinyani’

April 23, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 53 Comments

President Peter Mutharika has warned “a certain presidential candidate” against rigging the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, saying he will take appropriate action, threatening: “I will go after you.”

Mutharika lashes at plans to rig elections
First Lady accompanied the President
Mutharika addressing the Ntchisi crowd

Speaking at Chinthemwe in Ntchisi in the central region, Mutharika said his government has gathered intelligence report on an opposition party, which he did not mention, that it has rolled out plans to rig the watershed elections.

Mutharika, who is also the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) torchbearer in the May elections, said he is aware that an opposition party intends to rig the elections.

But his claims were apparent insinuations against his estranged deputy Saulos Klaus Chilima, who is in the presidential race on UTM ticket.

He charged: “Akuti wina wabwelesa anthu akunja ndi machine ndi anthu ena ochokela ku Nigeria, ena ku Russia, ena ku Greece. Ndikuziwa kumene ali, kumene kuli machine awo ndikuziwa [We know the people you have brought from Russia and Nigeria, others from Greece. We have put them under surveillance. We know where your equipment is housed.]”

Mutharika said the scheme of rigging includes plans to “offset communication for Airtel and TNM” networks.

“I want to warn you that I know what you are doing and I will go after you. Tikufinyani, Ndithana nawe,” charged Mutharika amid cheers from DPP supporters.

Chilima has been in the news lately bragging that there will be no rigging and branding his competitors as “Afana” meaning amateurs in rigging.

President Mutharika further said the national security apparatus has comfortably put the clandestine activities and rigging experts on the ladder and that they will be apprehended.

“Don’t cheat yourselves that we don’t know what you are doing. We will pounce on you and your team at the right time. You better stop or face the consequences,” Mutharika charged.

Mutharika assured the people that he will protect their votes and allow them to exercise their right to vote freely.

“Don’t worry. As far as am alive, this man’s sinister motive will not come to pass. He should forget about rigging this elections. We will beat him fair and sure.”Mutharika added.

Mutharika has stepped up his gear canvassing for votes in the opposition stronghold of central region holding 5 to 6 whistle stops in a day.

The President also said his government has performed well and  needs to be in power again to continue the unfinished developmental projects it has started in the country.

There are less than 30 days to go before Malawians  vote in the tripartite elections.

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53 replies on “Mutharika warns against rigging Malawi elections: Spits fire ‘I will go after you, tikufinyani’”

  3. Iwe Wictor Sajeni Songazaudzu ndi James Mdwazika mungibweretsere nzukwa kwathu kuno ku Ntchisi. Mulibe manyazi ndi chinthu. There’s a video clip wina akuti ndodayi ndi malemu. Mkazi wake ndi cartoon yeniyeni. Mizukwa iyi. Vampire APM. Chinkhanira choba K145 million. TA Kalumo ndi Nthondo please ask for land in Thyolo. Kwathuko sitikufunani .

  4. Ine mmodzi wa DPP ndayamba kukaika zoti tiwina. Chilima waiponyera game kokuya. Kulikonse ukapita akuti ife tikufuna Chilima. Ine ndikukonzekera zothawa kupita ku America ndi uncle Peter (a Pulofesa). ‘Mzimu wao akuti uuse muntendere’ Ask Chimulirenji.

  6. These are signs of panic cos if that is intelligence then there was no need to be saying & those that are claimed to have landed in Malawi why can’t 6he police take them for questioning? And in Malawi rigging g is difficult cos all one needs to do is simply put monitors with smart phones in all the polling centers after counting at any centre then take a photo of the form signed by all the monitors & send it to their tally centre.

    1. Exactly….It’s amazing how politicians believe and make claims of election rigging especially wen ballots are counted and results declared at polling stations…

  8. Legendary former Celtic captain Billy McNeill – the first Briton to lift the European Cup – has died aged 79. If APM is 80, chake chilipo. A Malawi you are voting for Chimulirenji apatu. Change your mind and vote for munthu who is below 70. What we see is reminiscent of 1993 when Kamuzu was forced into campaign and he ended up with a brain tumor. APM has signs of ill health and his voice tells a story. He is being dragged into this game by the woman who looks like a cartoon in the picture. APM is talking nonsense claiming he has built more roads than any other government. Was he in Malawi when Kamuzu built a road from Nchalo to Karonga? Was he there when Kamuzu built the Zalewa road up to Mzuzu via Nkhatabay? Was he there when Kamuzu built Mchinji road, Salima Lilongwe road, Kamwendo to Kasungu road, Mwanza road and Mangochi road? Was he there when Kamuzu built almost all the big hospitals and good schools? Was he there when Kamuzu built the University of Malawi including the college of medicine? Tikupusilanji with Pitala wakubayu

  10. Koma APM sakugonadi….kunamizira ichi icho koma chonsencho ndi a President. Zautsiru just accept that you see signs kuti zavuta BAMBO00000000
    UTM kuti bhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
    COWARDICE AT THE HIGHEST ORDER

  13. Anganga afiki just go and bring out the machine, arrest the suspects and stop all this bullshit u are talking! It seems this time around the courts will be for DPP and mcp singing atibera atibera

  14. NO WONDER MALAWI IS NUMBER FOUR FROM BOTTOM AS A POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

    Poor and stagnant leadership from the Prof is the clear reason. The whole president campaigning and inciting anarchy when he should be one to avoid it. Please stop panicking Mr President and admit you have done your smallest part. To be honest DPP has already lost the coming elections because of your tolerance for misrule that is full of nepotism, corruption, fraud and stealing by your statehouse officers and their king maker PSs and Chief Secretary Muhara.

    APM has no agenda to sell and he forgets that his campaign is funded by tax payer. We are fed up of hearing unclearly expressed garbage! Peter you have the whole government machinery at your disposal why give out threats and leak your intentions when the country’s security is at stake? Fundo zabvutatu to sell to Malawians. This MBC is abused…….. after your Shamboko speech full of nothing then we are subjected by your zombies on MBC fabricating and concocting zitukuko za fake! Your two zombies on MBC are an insult to the intelligence of Malawians. Zitukuko zomapanga in the last six months of a social contract of 5 year makes the APM not a progressive person as suggested by the name of DPP. Is this you professor or the bad advice you get from your looters?

    Why do your two zombies on MBC try so hard to sell DPP manifesto only every day and at the same time try so hard to force your chitukuko that is not really there down our throats every day and the whole day? This is because Malawians cannot see it! If the roads are well developed in Malawi and ndinu achitukuko how come the M1 Road is like leading to hell? M1 Road of Malawi is the ost pathetic of all M1 Roads the whole world!!!!

    God save Malawi from these crooks

  15. Arafat anazipopa moposa mulingo pa ground sakuothera tsono mwana opanda nzeru yu ngakhale kumpatsa likasa mayeso apeza zero basi. Kupupuluma amaona kuchedwa lero waziona.

  16. Awadi ngakulu akuganiza cikale. Anthu adaamba kutsofola kaya inu mukadali ndi yomwe ija dhala.kkkkkk
    Kodi mpaka kutifinya? Mhhhhhh lathina thayo apa. Paja ukafinyidwa pakhosi thukuta etc zimatuluka uncontrollably hetini!! Yukanika dhilo yosolela misonlho yathu apatu. Nde bakhalibakhali ngati mbuzi yofuna kuswa. Tifinyeni bwana hopi g that will be part of your physiotherapy to your arms.
    Idiot stinky mouth old cow

  17. That’s being coward Mr President. You have all state powers to act or reporting system, why then standing on that platform for the crucial matter like that? If you think you will stay on power in the next 5 years, please be reminded that Malawi needs someone else and NOT you. I voted for you in 2014 only to be disappointed by you and the team that you work with. It’s time for youthful leadership who cannot be corrupted at all. I am also from Thyolo, this country is NOT our estate Mr President. Let us give others chance to turn this country around. In my village where I come from, majority cannot afford even 2 meals a day, today we have Ben Phiri who goes and cheat my parents, please, accept that you have failed this nation

  18. Anthu amene amvera a pulezidenti akunena kuti aberedwa a kuti ndikulira uku kuti akuzisiya pa 21May.

  19. Two issues seem to come out clearly. Either the 2014 elections were rigged, a fact which you both know and being haunted with at the same time, where parting ways may mean that each one of you is always suspecting the other remembering your old ways of 2014, when it was green. Or you are acknowledging that the game is not on your side, so trying to build up reasons for the impending loss. Please do not confuse Malawians like you are doing here. Sorry, time is up and only MEC and courts now have power, as you are a competitor yourself. So sorry, honeymoon is over, and the powers is fast slipping off.

  25. One way of accepting that you have lost. If it’s true then u have all the government machinery y not bring the evidence n arrest them????????????????

    1. @ FELIX NAVIRIYO…ULEMU WANU BWANA….MR PRESIDENT HAS REALLY FAILED…HE IS COWARD AND HE HAS NOTHING TO CAMPAIGN. MTIMA WANU FELIX NDIWOTUKULA DZIKO..U R FROM THE SAME PLACE NDI AMENE WATIWONONGERA DZIKO LATHU AND YET YOU REMAIN IN THE TRUTH…GOD BLESS YOU…I SUPPORT CHILIMA….MY NICE MAN

  28. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk mdalatu apa yamuvuta,chaka chino simumaka sazimitsa network ya aitel neither tnm,agwiritsa njira zamakono za mwambi walero osati wa 2014,,,hamayoooooooo .read more

  29. Hahahaha. Mwagwilizana ka strategy kameneko? Why can’t you send your guys to arrest them? You sound so scared you think you will lose; much better for this country. Let other people rule as you are not the only people to rule. You are toying around with the peoples lives.

  30. A toothless old lion, fearful that the days are numbered and he is being surrounded from all sides by young energetic lions ready to take over his pride!! 29 days to go Mr President and already you are in panic mode? Simuwinatu bwana, ndinu mafana kwambiri! kkkkkkkkk

  32. Nkhalamba yatha ma plan mpaka kututa anthu to Ntchisi. Ukuyesa anthu aku Ntchisi ngopusa eti? Do you have time to go after anyone. Just go and pack your belongings. Iwe Sajeni ungabweretsa nyasizi kwathuko? Bwanji sudayiwuze nkhalamba yakoyi kuti ikonze secondary school yako ija? Simuyinyantha monse. Athakati akuba inu.

  33. Who’s supposed to rig, opposition? Who’s got the machinery and capacity to rig? It seems like game yaavutatu agogo NTCHONA.

  35. Maliseche ulibe manyanzi if u r really sure abt this why don’t go where the pipo n machine for ur cliam, zakuvuta basi old man

  36. why is it that its only Muthalika and Chilima; who is talking of vote rigging, surely there is something these two know about 2014 elections which will come out one day.Malawians are not foolish and God is not dead

  37. If the ruling party is fearing of rigging, it knows that its time is over, but you should thank your finance minister for failing to institute financial discipline and failing to convince donors to help Malawi. People in your country are really suffering except ministers and very few. We appreciate that you have built roads, but this is not a thing to boast as development in 21st century, otherwise there are roads even in Kabul and Mogadishu where the artillaries, missile launchers and tanks passby. But we dont eat the roads, Outside State house in Malawi life is very tough.

    1. That`s true man. Roads are all over the world. In the 21st Century , 54 years after independence we cannot be talking of roads when we dont have drugs in hospitals, when our gruduates nurses, teachers , doctors etc are staying idle while there are many vacancies in civil services.

  38. Anthuwa akudziwana ndithu, Choti prof. Mtharika adziwe ndi chakuti njira yomwe anagwiritsa ntchito 2014 pofuna kubera ma votes yozimitsa Mizu ya Airtel kuti ingagwiritsidwenso ntchito chaka chino . Pano yemwe akufuna kubera ma Votes agwitsa ntchito ya Makono yosiyana ndi yakale.

  39. APM ALI NDI MANTHA KOWOPSA NGATI AKUDZIWA KUMENE KULI MACHINEKO OSAULULA BWANJI KKKKKKKKK MUNTHU WANKULU GAME YAMKULIRA AKUMUOPA CHILIMA KWAMBIRI

  40. MULUNGU WANDIUZA KUTI TAMBALA WAKUDA NDI AMENE AKUWINA PA 21 SUNGANI UNENERI UMENEWU , KAYA MUFUNE KAYA MUSAFUNE NDIZIMENE ZIKHALIRE PA 21 MAY PANO, SINDINE WA MCP AYI NDILIBE CHIPANI , SINDIPITANSO KUNSOKHANO WANDALE KOMANSO KWATHU NDI KU ZOMBA

    2. I agree with you 101%, though i won’t vote, last time i voted for DPP, but am really disappointed this time around!

    3. I doubt very much that God can back a party with a history of murder and bloodshed against its own citizens. Last week i heard your leaders shouting “Kamuzu, Pulezidenti wa muyaya m’Malawi” are you guys mad or what? MCP killed thousand and detained and ruined hundreds of thousands. And to make it worse, you team up with the leader of cashgate???? Kulodzedwa kapena?

        1. Kodi woyang`anila cisankho ndi inu, ndiye mukafunya bwa? Tazingolongezani.Kuteleko ena akadzawina muzidzati anabela. Pull the other one!

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