LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Incumbet President Peter Mutharika’s runningmate for the coming fresh election, Atupele Muluzi on Saturday afternoon told the nation that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government in the next five years will provide free internet data to school leavers.
According to Muluzi the initiative will help school leavers to cope up with the modern technology that access to information could be easy.
The UDF leader last week also promised to provide free laptops and mobile phones to the nation.
He was addressing a campaign rally at Masintha Ground in the capital Lilongwe for the first ally of the DPP-UDF alliance.
Muluzi, who is the president for the United Democratic Front (UDF) which has partnered the ruling DPP in the election told the mammoth crowd that once re-elected, the Mutharika-led government will continue to initiate more development projects.
Muluzi also reprimanded the MCP-UTM alliance for focusing on tarnishing the image of his father (former President Bakili Muluzi) instead of focusing on what they will do for the Malawian people once voted into power.
The young Muluzi also promised that the DPP-UDF alliance will work to end blackouts once voted into power.
He also promised that he and Mutharika will be hitting the campaign trail together where they will highlight more development blueprint the alliance has outlined.
Other notable faces who spoke at the rally included DPP’s Campaign Director, Everton Chimulirenji, UDF Publicity Secretary, Ken Ndanga, Secretary General Kandi Padambo and DPP’s National Governing Council (NGC) Member, Hetherwick Ntaba.
Ntaba particularly faulted the Constitutional Court that nullified last year’s poll on its interpretation of Section 80 (1) of the Constitution, saying the framers of the republican constitution did not mean 50%+1 when they said a President should be elected by the majority.
The rally also saw the DPP-UDF alliance welcoming into its fold former UTM Deputy Secretary General, Levy Luwemba, who during his speech said he had quit the UTM because it has been swallowed by the Malawi Congress Party.
This was the first major rally that the young Muluzi conducted in Lilongwe since he was picked as running mate for President Mutharika in the fresh election slated for June 23, 2020.