Shocker! Mbakuwaku wants MEC to disqualify Chakwera, Mutharika
Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) president Peter Kuwani has written Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) asking the body to disqualify Tonse Alliance candidate Lazarus Chakwera and DPP-UDF Alliance candidate Peter Mutharika on the grounds that they violated electoral laws.

Kuwani alleges that the two broke the law when they changed their running mates for the fresh election.
“Basing on the fact, point of law and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal (MSCA) consequential directions and recommendations on candidates, MEC should nullify the candidature for Dr Lazarous Chakwera and Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika for being reconstituted.
“It is apparent that MSCA consequential directions and recommendations as regards to candidates should be in tandem to consequential directions and recommendations on voters’ roll,” reads the complaint letter by Kuwani.
He wants to be declared the winner of the fresh presidential elections, unopposed.
“Unless legally proven or directed otherwise, Peter Sinosi, Driver Kuwani is the sole candidate who fully adopted the MSCA consequential directions and recommendations for the presidential election.
“The presidential candidature of Dr Lazarous Chakwera and Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika are products of reorganisation as they do not bear resemblance to a candidate presented to voters on 21 May 2019… and are a fraud,” he argued and called on MEC to nullify their candidature.
Addressing journalists in Blantyre Wednesday morning, MEC chairperson Justice Dr Chifundo Kachale said the commission will respond to Kuwani’s complaint by close of business today.
“I won’t comment much because we are handling this issue,” he said.
On the same note, Kachale also briefed the nation that, as of today, they have successfully resolved four complaints—two from Tonse Alliance and two from DPP/UDF Alliance.
A very stupid Kuwani. You brought this matter before the election and the matter was handled by clarifying that ONLY THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE PREVIOUS ELECTION were eligible to participate. APM, LMC, SKC and AAM participated in the previous elections as presidential candidates. As such the four were eligible to participate. APM could have been VP to AAM and LMC could have been vice to the Driver or SKC etc – indeed a mix of any of the four is eligible.
I think there is sensein case he has presented. This is not his first time to write Mec for disqualification of these two candidates. If it were in others countries where justice prevails, this would have been a good reason to disqualify the two or give them an option to adopt. Think of it, the court gave an order to restrict new entrants to compete for the position of the president while maintaining the same voters’ roll used in 2019 election.
Below are some of the reasons the two should been disqualified.
(a) TWOhad vice presidents who withdrew the candidature as Presidents. By the mere fact that they withdrew, they were outside the competition. As such, they were prevented by the order to join in the race. led
B) The roll voter was maintained because those were the people whose right to vote was violented through mismanagement of election. The followers’ right was violented by mere fact thatheir candidate failed to stand in position competed earlier.
Is vice president elected or not?
Undele pela, leka waka apa achakwera wayezgepo…. Lindira mwawi wako, give it a try in 2025 papa
MMMMMM AKUWANI MUKUFUNA NANU MUTOLE???? ANAKUNAMIZANI NDANI?
In a rush to I’m implement regime change. The judges forgot to tie up loose ends. Now this…
Well, you listened to number 3 last time here is another number 3 making noise. Another re-run basi!
Akuwani mupanngitsa CHISONI zimene munenazo nthawi yatha. Angakhale chakwera atakupatsaniko 50,000 simungawinenso UCHITSILU UMENEWO
Adriver thus good, koma ngat mwatumidwa shame on u
This individual is just plain annoying.
If truth be told, MMD has a point! But I happen to recall a legal scholar opining that it’s all about the top of the ticket, not running mates. Watumidwa ndi APM ameneyu. APM is a very shifty character. I was beginning to wonder why he hasn’t started parking yet, but now I know why.
vuto la amalawi we are always too excited to follow the laws of the land, for example I don’t know why DPP was not part of of the judgement of the previous elections case where MEc was vindicated for incompetence and yet the beneficiary of such incompetence was not mentioned in the judgement. A malawi anzanga lets sometimes look at the issues with sober mind for the good of the nation not just to please few people. the learned judges errored and thus a fact, therefore it gave the DPP an edge during this elections as they could use the government machinery freely.
Coming to today’s issue, I support the dancing president 101%, we seem to have been to excited to follow the laws of the land as well as the MEC constitution. If indeed the voters who were not eligible then were denied their rights to vote because they were not yet 18 during may elections then why is it that the candidates choose different running mates, this time around yet they want to maintain the status quo of that May elections? Ceteris paribas, we expected the same format of the may 18 elections or else if they changed it then they could have allowed those that were less than 18years last year to register and vote for the president of their choices since this was a FRESH election……..
disgruntled mbakuwaku man. he has nothing to offer.
Dear Mr Kuwani, these are fresh elections where the candidates made fresh submissions of their nomination papers and so yes, the process was redone right from the beginning. Candidates paid MK2million nomination fees among others. They also reorganized themselves to choose principal candidates and runningmates. Mr Kuwani, you also paid nomination fees and you were at liberty to choose your own running mate. The courts did not compel the candidates of the 2019 elections to participate in the June 2020 elections, it was their own choice which including you participated at will.
Surely this man is saying the trueth MEC should have maintained the original composition of ALL parties therefore alliances and current running mates are fake and null and void and the LAW must take it’s cause.
The courts already addressed that! munali kuti? THERE IS NO LAW THAT SAYS THAT
For ur Information Kuwani..Running mate samakhala pa ballot paper, mwagwa nayo
If you are in UK and didn’t vote then shut up. Here in Malawi the name of runningmate was written on the ballot, so yes runningmate was on the ballot.
Who told you that?
Go for it Kuwani. The election has infringed on voters rights indeed. Wishing you all the best.
You have a point son, if we consider the court prevented Malawians eligible to vote in the rerun i.e.those who turned 18 in the last 11 months. What the court did was to force MEC to maintain the voters but change the options which is not fair at all. Judiciary rigging for mcp
Exactly, that’s why other people were voting for Mbakuwaku because we saw that the other candidates had violated the constitutional requirement
Mwagwa nayo
I agree. He has a point, but won’t SUCCEED because of his small number of followers. He raised the issue with MEC immediately after presentation of nomination papers but MEC disregarded him. Legally he is the only one that has followed the court ruling.
A candidate can withdrew his candidature at anytime and support the other.So his point is out of order.
Agent of DPP after noticing the trend is not favouring them. Malawi Election Commission accepted the nomination of these 2 candidates meaning they fulfilled what was necessary.
Wakhuta manyi
Ziona ukaona, kamba anga mwala
awa nawo
Kikikikiiiiiiii, you should have brought this before elections baba. If my memory is correct, this issue was already dealt by the courts who gave a nod to it.
He raised the issue immediately after presentation of nomination papers, but MEC did not respond. MEC was wrong to disregard his point.
He raised the issue immediately after presentation of nomination papers but MEC disregarded him
Remember,its not a forcing matter to a candidature on an elections,you can even pull out from the race at eleventh hour and endorse the someone.
Atumidwa awa ndi abakhawa
This guy is just an eyesore, confusionist , probably a decoy set by DPP. Malawi is already late in development we don’t need people who are just doing things to satisfy their Egos. Let’s get to work and change the livelihoods of malawians. Read the signs and Join the train of change Mr kuwani.
I asked similar questions, what of alliances, was it legal or is it because of the term ‘fresh ‘ am confused
is mad
Actually the court said “re-run” which meant no reorganisation of candidates, although the candidates could drop out if they so wished
“Although the candidates could drop out if they so wished”I think that has answered you everything.
You remember JB in 20q3 wanted a rerun but said would not compete and the reaction that followed