SALIMA- (MaraviPost)-The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s  Salima North West legislator, Jessie Kabwila on Tuesday  buried a hatchet with the party’s leadership with the hope of setting a new pace a head of 2019 general elections.

Kabwira has therefore  embraced the party’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, as bonafide leader.

This follows outbursts which Kabwira has been making in the media where she has been failing to recognize the new National Executive Committee (NEC) describing it as illegal.

Kabwira was speaking at Siyasiya in Salima when welcoming  MCP Vice President Sidik Mia during his whistle stop tour of the lakeshore region.

The legislator said she was happy a new chapter is open in the MCP political history.

“We are very happy that today we are opening new chapter in our history because for the past one year the people you are seeing here were not being recognized, ” said Kabwila.

During the tour Mia encouraged the Lakeshore region to go and register in order to vote out the Democratic

Progressive Party (DPP) government which he said has no welfare of people at heart.

He said it is sad that Malawians are struggling to make ends meet and yet there is a government running.

“Go and register in your large numbers so that you have an opportunity to vote these people out,” said Mia.

Apart from Siyasiya in Salima, Mia also stopped at Benga and other various trading centres in Nkhotakota

The MCP Vice President  said Malawi was in an “abyss of despair, yet the corrupt and inept” DPP wanted to portray a rosy picture to long-suffering citizens and the outside world.