Who should replace Chakwera as MCP leader? Have your say

October 23, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 75 Comments

Presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera of the liberation movement-turned-political party – Malawi Congress Party (MCP) – that ruled the country for decades in one-party dictatorship, will be barred by his party constitution to contest for presidency for the third time luck in 2024 and will have to s pass on the baton to a candidate that will replace him. In the MCP rank and file, who do you think among these can take over the party leadership:

Chakwera (r) with former president Joyce Banda

MCP first vice president Sidik Mia

Acting leader of opposition Lobin Lowe, MP

MP Sosten Gwengwe

MP Sam Kawale

Dr Cornelius Mwalwanda MP

Eisenhower Mkaka MP

Or suggest any other name

Chakwera  hasled the MCP into the 2014 and 2019 elections, coming second to President Peter Mutharika at the polls.

MCP  has lost all five presidential elections since 1994 but Chakwera has made great efforts to re-energise its base.

  • 64 years old
  • Chakwera was president of the Malawi Assemblies of God from 1989 to 2013
  • he was endorsed by former president Joyce Banda in March

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75 replies on “Who should replace Chakwera as MCP leader? Have your say”

  2. MCP Convention will review the constitution and decide way forward……………………. why are u too interested in MCP leadership takeover not DPP’s since adad’s era is coming to the last dot!! Akutumaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Basoppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

  4. This is an internal MCP matter. What is your interest into this? Chakwera has never came second to APM twice first. Secondly their constitution can be amended if the party feels so. So keep yourself out of this.

    2. Kikiki Koma amending Party Constitution to tailor fit one candidate?
      Za zii izo; Inali game ya uja waMuyaya uja, Kamuzu. Anapita nazo ku manda.
      And democracy prevails today in this country, and we are better off politically as a people.

  5. I think this paper is full of cadets. The elections period is not over linda madzi apite ndipo uziti ndadala. Chakwera mukumutchurayu akuchititsani manyazi mawa. Ndipo mudzachita chitungwi pemphero langa ndilakuti musadzafe ndi ma BP. MCP will go to convention in 2023 and you are talking about MCP now why talk of that nkhalamba yopanda manoyo.

    1. I agree none of the Above …MCP has no problems when it comes to Replacing Leadership …We have had Chakuamba,Tembo and Chakwera .Chakwera was Not Even in Mainstream Politics …It’s an Insult for Some Cadet to be Insinuating that Only Those Already in Politics Now can lead MCP…DPP leaders have Been Muntharika and Muntharika .So worry about Your Family and Tribal Parties not Our Mighty MCP .If We Want We Will Give Chakwera Another Chance …We should be Talking about Changing Voting System to 50 + 1 ,Banning Use of Tippex on Electrol Materials,Making sure that 100 percent of results are Audited before Announcing,Maybe Even A Federal System if Some People want to Maintain the Tribalistic First Past the Post System…

  7. Very interesting topic and is true
    Who will replace chakwera. In chewa akuti chida chomwe akuyenda nacho chizakupweteka and is true.
    I recall how hard Mr Tembo axed and constitution was changed at that time.
    Mr chilima will lead MCP if they want to defeat DPP. Thank you

  12. Who doesn’t know the author is one of the regime thugs….leave our mighty MCP alone…our President Dr. Chakwera is busy putting together and ready to implement mfundo zopititsira patsogolo Malawi akatenga dzikoli early next year….your tippex president is leaving office 45days from 6 December, 2019.
    Muberetu misonkho yathu nthawi ndiyomweyi.

  13. MCP alone can never win Presidential Seat in Malawi unless it goes into alliance with a party from the South just to give it even 400,000 votes. Kapena apeze a very populist candidate like Chilima who can be likable in the eyes of many koma as far as we are voting in regional lines ntchito ikalipo

    1. I doubt whether Chilima can have a better campaign in 2024 than the last one..The populism would have eroded by the time we reach 2024.

  14. the question is unnecessary. he just have to resign basi. alipo anthu angatenge. look at the solid people like the DA leader of SA.

  15. Chakwela will rule from 2019 up to 2029 thereafter we shall see who can take over the mantle. He is energetic and visionary ; just because he is chewa does not mean he is tribalist. This man has shown attributes of a good leader ngakhale munthu aliyense ali ndi zofooka zake.

    1. Kkkkkk kkkkkk, some dreams! Eish! Kkkkkkk kkkkk kkkkk kkkkkk kkkkkkk. Iwe maloto musiye munthu kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

    2. kwambiri achibale ndipo chakwera ndi akanati agwilizane malawi akhoza kugwesa mdala uyu lets wait for court as of now

  16. MCP Constitution provides for two terms which chakwela is serving.the author is right.mcp is not personal estate hence the question.
    for those who have lived in mcp will agree with me that convetion is just arubberstamp in mcp.Leaders are imposed including Chakwela himself he a benificiary of imposition.Those u see making noise today were not party when chakwela was made mcp president.keep on waisting you time chakwela shall never be presidentt of malawi.

      1. ya ku court yokhayo isiyeni, tinakamba ndipo tinakambadi. MCP ilibe umboni woti ma judge nkugamula kuti kukhaale re run.

  17. Call back Njovuyalema to lead the party. Mkaka is new in political circles. Gwengwe is not stable .Remember he was Joyce Banda boy and failed in 2014. As for Mia, he can not lead the party which is dominated by Chewas. We should not forget that MCP is a party for Central Region kummwera kulibeko . So Mia can not command following from the South or from the North. It was a mistake that JZU nominated pastor Chakwera to lead this party of death and darkness. Lazaro is selfish. lazaro is a hater. Lazaro is a thief. He embezzeled church offerings and Party Money to build his house in area 6. Lazaro does not take advice from anybody . Lazaro hands are full of blood. I am surprised that today he is talking about dialogue when he has caused damage to the Malawians through his stupid HRDC . He had planned evil things with Mtambo prior to May elections. So recall Njovuyalema to propel the party to 2024. As for Leader of Opposition confirm Lowe into the position

  18. stupid reporter
    so you want to bring confusion in mcp
    stay away
    this is old style of doing politics

  21. Fundamental stipulations for applicants: Must be oChewa and from the Central Region. Otherwise, don’t bother applying.
    Asa.

  23. DPP Cadets please leave our party alone! Why should you be the on e choosing! We will cross that phase at its own time. For now leave Chakwera alone. Who does not know your motive?

  24. DPP cadet has decided to write this article. Why are you not talking about DPP leadership in 2024? In case you forgot, your tippex president won’t be the leader of Malawi anymore according to the Malawi Constitution. Your choices are Ben Phiri and Nankhumwa! 😄

  26. If MCP is to continue existing, which is very doubtful of course, then the race must be between LOWE and NJOVUYALEMA. However, NJOVUYALEMA could be a solution for MCP. Sidik Mia and his PP team in MCP must not be given any space in MCP. In the 2019 election which MCP thoroughly lost, how many votes did Mia bring to the party? Nothing. How can he lead the party relying on votes from central region? Mia is a non starter.

    1. Surely in my opinion Mia brought considerable vote for MCP from South. MCP was visible this time around as compared to the other previous election in my view because of him.For gods sake I feel MCP had the best election campaign since multiparty but the voter is an predicable animal.

  27. We are having problems of leadership in Malawi because of such kind of thinking let the people chose from 17,000,000 not those you have listed don’t impose people time will come don’t confuse people

  29. PRESIDENT: TIMOTHY SATANIC MTAMBO
    VICE: TRAMPANT
    SECRETARY: JOICE BANDA
    KAYA ENAWO: KONKO
    BUT MALAWIANS HAVE TO KNOW THAT WE ARE HAVING ALL THESE PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF hk BANDA, THE FIRST PRESIDENT, JOHN TEMBO AND THE MCP PARTY

    IF MCP LEADER HAD A VISION TO RULE THIS COUNTRY FOR YEARS, THEY WOULD HAVE MADE SURE THAT ALL HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES WERE NOT THERE. NO ALLEGED KILLINGS ETC. THESE ALONE FORCED MALAWINS TO CHANGE AND HATE MCP

    BEING IN POWER FOR 30 YEARS IS A GOOD EXPERIENCE. SO WE VOTED THEM OUT OF POWER. NEW LEADERS CAME IN AND IT WAS NOT EASY TO MANAGE FINANCES IN MALAWI AS MOST MALAWIANS LEARNT HOW TO USE SHORTCUTS ( ( METHODS OF ENRICHING THEMSERVES WITH LEAST EFFORT)
    MULUZI TRIED BUT MOST MALAWIANS HAD ALREADY LEANED HO TO PLAY AROUND WITH FIGURES.
    SO WE KEEP ON CHANGING PARTIES AND THIS MAKES OUR LEADERS TO THINK OF HOW BEST TO ENRICH BECAUSE THE FEAR IS THAT THEY WILL NOT RETAIN THE SEATS

    look att tanzania. this is a country which is ruled by CHAMA CHA MAPINDUZI FOR DECADES. NO CHANGES. AND ISSUES OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ARE NOT AS SERIOUS AS HERE BECAUSE THE PARTY IS ALWAYS ASSURED OF WINING THE ELECTIONS. WE MAY SAY MAGUFULI , MAAGUFURI) BUT IN REAL SENCE IT IS NOT MAGUFULRI. , IT IS BECAUSE THE PARTY HAS RULED THAT COUNTRY FOR YEARS AND THEY HAVE EXPERIENCE
    SAME WITH MOZAMBIQUE DESPITE THE WARS.

    SO IN MALAWI WE KEEP CHANGING PARTIES LIKE PANTS AND WE HAVE MORE POLITICAL PARTIES. I WISH WE HAD A PARTY THAT WOULD REMAIN IN POWER FOR MORE YEARS.

    KPMA KUBA AND KUWUKULALANA TOO MUCH

    1. Sizugwirizana. If HK Banda never laid the foundations we are standing on now, do you think any of these presidents we’ve had could’ve done it???????
      Everyone has weaknesses & strengths.

      1. Zikugwirizana kwambiri. Mufune musafune Achimwene Lazaro athira mchenga mumpoto wa mpunga dziwani zimenezi akongeresi. MCP simudafune kuti anthu akumwela alamulire. You did not support Gwanda Chakwamba. Remember, Obaba nthawi imeneyo, phungu voterani MCP. Upulezidenti zathuzi ai. Lero ndiye mudzibwera kumwela kwacha. kwacha, kanundu chani? Kkkk

      2. You call feeding people to crocodiles a weakness. active killing of the Chisizas, bodies being left openly for people to view “criminals”. Killing of the Gadamas, etc. Being denied freedom to worship as Jehovahs Witness. Go to Nkula hydropower station and find people who worked in the station, particularly the siltation department. Bodies were being removed there and all killed in a similar fashion. People who never lived through those days will never remember the terror.

        2. Tan, some of those killing you allege were done without HKB’s knowledge. Remember that people at his rallies used to say “”Angwazi musamva zothaitha” and most times one could be reported to party officials even if you are innocent. People could do anything to whom they ditaste, political witchhunting was the answer. The good thing is that HKB apologised while residing at Mudi for all the atrocities that were committed in his name and government. Check with Daily Times issue published in July 1995

  30. I think MCP is mad now with Chakwera kkkk.

    Sidik Mia is southerner whom cannot win any vote for the leadership of MCP kkk.I can see Mkaka being denied.Lobin Lowe will be favoured than Gwengwe who has been nomadic kkk.

  32. I sense a lot of malice in the opening paragraph of your article. But is it an issue, really? I thought the convention will sort this ” next MCP torchbearer”issue?

    1. Laptop yanga masiku apitawa inkapanga zomwezi. kudinya chilembo iyo ikulemba nambala lero yasiyayokha ikugwira bwino bwino. Anamatetele pakomputanu kodi vutoli limadza bwanji nanga tingatani? Kodi kongeresi ndi chipani cha pa shosho media? ndimayesa alindimasitalakichala. Lidala timasankha kukomveshoni odala.

  34. What for! ? This violent party with hooligan supporters need to be disbanded and it’s long overdue!. This election is the last it has managed to get more votes. Next election 2024 they will be nothing! For MCP! watch the space.

  35. Am sorry we cant glorify this article with a comment. Seems its a cadet sponsored article aimed at distabilising the one and only mighty MCP.

  37. Chakwera is one person full of hate and God saw his heart and knew that if we elected him, Malwians would have been in bondage. Curreently he is boycoting parliament because he claims he won the presidency and say he does not recognise APM as president. I find this stupid because parliament includes the oresident and why did he take oath of an institution where he claim the president who is part of parliament has no legitimacy

  38. It’s a party constitution and Chakwera will stand again since this time around every onre knows he has been robbed of his victory

  41. Mmmmmhh ngati ndikuyankha munthu oti atha kuitsogolera MCP Kuti ilowe mboma mwa anthu amene atchulidwawa. Njira yabwino ndikuyankha constitution review apa Kuti mwina Lazalo azayimenso. Ngati sizitero chipani cha blue chizakhaliranso MCP pamutu sure.

    2. But this idea of constitutional review was shot down during John Tembo era.We should not in my view change laws to suit a particular individual.This would not be what the constitution was meant to achieve….

  42. The right question should be who should replace APM? From the list pick one: Chaponda, Change Golo, Vuwa, Nakhumwa, Msaka, Chithumwa, Ben Phiri

  43. He has been the worst leader of MCP puting his personal interest first at the expense of the national interest. He will leave Malawi more divided on regional and tribal lines than ever. Only time will tell if that is going to work to the advantage of MCP in other regions in the next elections.

  45. This is a heavy task for MCP. Mia by virtue of being deputy could have made it but its unthinkable that he can be accepted in the political ranks..Its a party entrenched in regional political theories.. They would rather have a pig standing other than having a non central region candidate to stand.. The rebuilding exercise will further weaken the party.

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