People’s Party (PP) has maintained that former president and its party founder as well as leader Joyce Banda will “definitely” return home this month from abroad, where she had been operating from and President Peter Mutharika has since said she is a free woman to come back home. Banda has been out of the country […]
Malawi President, Peter Mutharika has come under heavy criticism for failing to consider the plight of poor Malawians as he travelled with a delegation of over 100 people to the 2015 United Nations General Assembly. Mutharika on Monday left for United States of America to attend the UN General Assembly’s 70th session which will attract leaders from […]
Former ruling People’s party (PP) has accused President Peter Mutharika and the entire Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership of political witch-hunting. According to PP spokesperson Ken Msonda, DPP is using the ongoing cashgate cases as a tool of trickling down former president Joyce Banda and her party through implicating her in cashgate issues. Msonda has […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Party (PP) continues to sail through existential crisis and has stopped Khumbo Kachali’s intentions to start conducting political party rallies for the party. PP secretary general Ibrahim Matola has announced the return of party president and founder Joyce Banda next month on a date the party say will officially communicate. Kachali was recently welcomed […]
President and founder of opposition Peoples Party (PP), Joyce Banda has reversed the party’s decision to expell two provincial chairpersons, Reverend Christopher Mzomera Ngwira and Cliffer Kondowe. The party through its Secretary General, Ibrahim Matola on Saturday expelled Mzomera and Kondowe from the party over alleged misconduct after the two led a group of thugs to […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has fired its provincial chairpersons for the northern region, Cliffer Kondowe and Reverend Christopher Mzomera for alleged misconduct. The party has since given the two seven days to hand over all party materials in their possession including vehicles. Mzomera, until his expulsion, was the party’s northern province Chairperson while Kondwe […]
The People’s Party (PP) is now into a bitter civil war with former vice president Khumbo Kachali and Rev Christopher Mzomela Ngwira are fighting the rank and file with the latest meltdown on Friday in Mzuzu at Victory Temple where “thugs” disputed a meeting organised by secretary general Ibrahim Matola to prepare the return of party founder […]
Former president Joyce Banda is scheduled to return home next month from South Africa, where she had been operating from, and government is preparing her retirement home. Office of President and Cabinet says government officials have been showing houses to former First Gentleman, retired chief justice Richard Banda, this week as they understand the former president […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has acted quickly to replace its suspended Director of Administration, Reverend Peter Kaleso by appointing Ken Msonda in acting capacity. PP suspended Kaleso on Monday on allegations of indiscipline of which he vehemently denied. And on Tuesday the party’s president, Joyce Banda appointed Publicity Secretary, Ken Msonda to act as Director of Administration, casting […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has suspended its Director of Administration, Reverend Peter Kaleso for indiscipline. PP Publicity Secretary, Ken Msonda confirmed Kaleso’s suspension on Monday. ”Reverend Peter Kaleso has been suspended as PP Director of Administration with immediate effect,” explained Msonda. Msonda could not disclose reasons behind Kaleso’s suspension but revealed he has been summoned […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has expressed its bitterness over a miserable performance during the Tuesday’s Local Government by-elections, describing the polls as free but not fair and credible. PP failed to win a single seat in the By-elections with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) dominating the results, winning three out of the five competed wards. […]
Controversy erupted on Tuesday night in Karonga the northern border part of Malawi during the unofficial announcement of local by-election results of Nkhwawa ward at the tally centre where some members of Malawi Congress party (MCP) and Peoples Party (PP) suspected the results to have been doctored as the results sheet had some anomalies. The […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has hailed President Peter Mutharika for retaining a lean cabinet in the recent reshuffle that saw two ministers dropped and others switched positions. Mutharika, in a cabinet reshuffle on Monday, dropped Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Paul Chibingu and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Tarcicius Gowelo after […]
In a slight protest against Malawi Electoral Commission’s (MEC) suspension of Peoples Party’s (PP) candidate for Chibanja ward in Mzuzu, Blackson Gondwe, supporters have announced they will vote for Alliance for Democracy (Aford) candidate Gibson Chisale. PP and Aford entered into electoral alliance during the last year’s elections. MEC suspended Gondwe three days after receiving […]
Northern Region Democratic Progressive Party governor Kenneth Sanga has brushed off former vice president Khumbo Kachali’s return to People’s Party (PP) leadership role, saying the development will least affect the party’s popularity and membership in the region. Kachali was last week controversially unveiled as PP interim president in the absence of the party’s founding president […]
People’s Party (PP) provincial governor for the north Rev Christopher Mzomera Ngwira has denied to have staged a party leadership coup by deposing founder and its leader Joyce Banda and installing Khumbo Kachali as interim leader, clarifying that Banda “remains legitimate party president.” Mzomera last week told a rally in Mzuzu that Kachali the interim […]
Former minister of Industry and Trade, who was also People’s Party (PP) running mate in the May 20 Tripartite Elections, Sosten Gwengwe, has defended his move to rejoin Malawi Congress Party (MCP) saying he is back to his political nest. Speaking Friday during an interview on Times TV, Gwengwe said he considers himself as a […]
People’s Party (PP) provincial governor for the north Rev Christsopher Mzomera Ngwira is sticking to his guns that former State and party vice-president Khumbo Kachali is the party’s interim leader , saying the party is lacking leadership in the absence of party president Joyce Banda who is currently abroad. Banda has been outside Malawi for […]