The leading opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) believes the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) financed a letter from regional leaders that questioned Lazarus Chakwera’s leadership.
But DPP has with disdain described the accusations as a gross disrespect to the “upright thinking MCP regional chairpersons”.
MCP Spokeserson Alekeni Odala Menyani, told journalists in Lilongwe on Monday that the DPP was not comfortable with his party’s continued rebuilding process, hence financing squabbles.
Said Menyani: “These squabbles are a political moves of an external third party and the chief suspect is defiantly the ruling party. I do not want to rule them out, although I am not pointing a finger at them directly, but I can’t just rule them out. They are under pressure so they want to divert peoples’ attention from the problems that the country is going through now because these problems are becoming perennial. Since they came in, they haven’t been able to solve any one of them.
“So when they are seeing a party that every day is in the building process, like we are doing, they would envy that and would want to finance issues like the ones emerging. But we are not shaken and have invited the concerned party to a talk over a cup of tea and make them realize that these third forces are there to destroy not to build. We believe as a party which is gearing itself for government in 2019 is a huge concern for the DPP. That’s why they are funding a fight between ourselves.”
But DPP Spokesperson Francis Kasaila said his party is pre-occupied with running government affairs to find time to be poking its nose into the affairs of MCP.
“In fact, that’s an insult and gross respect to the upright thinking MCP officials who wrote that letter. Why the MCP leadership would want to portray its own members as de-arranged and who could only see the wrongs in their own party at the dangle of money by the DPP, only themselves can explain. But as far as we are concerned, we have nothing to do with MCP.
“After all, we went into government while they were in opposition. Fate pushed us outside government and joined the MCP in opposition. We campaigned on the same footing and we left them right there in opposition. So what makes them think we can be spending sleepless nights with their so called re-building process? No-no-no, DPP is smarter than MCP,” said Kasaila.
Last week, the opposition Peoples Party (PP) also accused the DPP of meddling into its affair, an accusation Kasaila denied.
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