Njobvuyalema won, declares MCP primary polls returning officer
There is total confusion in Malawi Congress Party (MCP) following the primary elections for Lilongwe Mapuyu South constituency as the election’s returning officer Makala Ngozo MP has declared incumbent legislator Joseph Njobvuyalema duelly elected to be the pafrty’s candidate, disputing earlier results that indicated his main challenger Edward Chileka-Banda had won.
Njobvuyalema, who has a been a member of Parliament for the constituency since 1999, was reported by the party’s central region chairperson and his director of elections Patrick Chilondola and Willard Gwengwe to have lost the primary election to 37-year-old civil society player Edward Chileka-Banda.
But Makala Ngozo said the official results which he has submitted to the party’s director of elections indicate that Njobvuyalema won.
According to Ngozo, the veteran politician carried the day after amassing 356 votes against Chileka-Banda’s 199.
“These are the figures I recorded on the result sheet and a credible report of how the party members voted,” Ngozo said.
Ngozo said he has has submitted his report indicating the winner to be Njobvuyalema to to Elias Chakwera, MCP director of elections.
The report has faulted Edward Chileka Banda for declaring himself a winner.
Chakwera said the results are under dispute and he has withled them until the party establish what happened.
Both Njobvuyalema and Chileka-Banda are insisting to represent MCP in next year’s polls.
“ I am the rightful winner based on the number of delegates who voted as such nobody else can dispute that other than agreeing to the reality,” said Njobvuyalema
While Chileka-Banda , who, ironically, failed in his bid to represent MCP in 2014, asked Njobvuyalema to accept defeat with honour.
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Zikakhala zimenezo aChileka Banda Ife ayi zachinyengo you should handsoff ndale zaukapysala ife ndizomwe tikukana.kodi inu ndi aka mumatumidwa kuti mudziyipitsa chipani eti??? Mwalephera mukanika kuvomereza ndikumauza mtundu waMalawi kuti mwawina.one Kasumbadeza ndikuti mukapezeka olakwa pankhani yonyazitsa chipaniyi,you must be punished severely in terms of osapatsidwa Mwai otenga nawo gawo poyendetsa chipani kwa zaka5.mukakonzekenso bwino.demeti!!!!!!
Are the polls not conducted by the candidate standing and his/her supporters lining behind him/her? Was it difficult to note who had the largest following? Certainly someone must have taken a picture of the polls. That picture can be used as evidence supporting or against the disputed polls.
Tsono apa nde timve ziti, I think this really is a party of “death and darkness” di eti
Use secret ballot to stop this mess. People are fighting to stand for MCP because the party has a chance to win. Do you think people can fight for udf outside Mangochi and Machinga? MCP has grown in popularity and we will see such disputes through out. The best is to change the way of doing primaries. Nkhondo izi sizitha.
Nothing works at MCP, atibere song is all they know
ngati mwatopa kapumeni. ndiye zokanikazo, ndale zachikalekale mukuwona ngati a malawi samawona kapena ndiwochepa mzeru eti. hon njovu just accept the defeat. it seems you are not a statesman
Ife pempo lathu ndiloti mungo yima ngati mphungu woyima yekha
MCP sopano, this is what happen when you already have your own Candidate trying to eliminate the other for your own personal gains yet they are both MCP.a executive,learn to be neutral.
Chonchi mwayamba kale kuberana nokhanokha, ndiye mudzizati wins wabera
We don’t want dull oldies like you Njobvu. You have previously failed. Just go and run with your fellow oldies like APM and Goodall or Chaponda. Inu ndiye amene mukuwononga dziko. Kukakamira ngati your personal estate bwanji.
Edward, if these people mess you up run as an independent. You will defeat this guy and come back to MCP. I know people will vote for you because I also come from this area.
run as UTM….