BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President, Sidik Mia, has pledged much support for Lazarus Chakwera and Saulos Klaus Chilima, who have been today unveiled as MCP-UTM alliance presidential candidate and running mate respectively.
Writing on his official facebook page, Mia has encouraged Malawians to register and vote for the presidency of Chakwera and Chilima on July 2.
“We have today witnessed the conception of what will give birth to a new Malawi in July this year. I have closely known Dr Lazarus Chakwera and, believe you me, he will be the best President Malawi has ever had.
“Let me also salute the patriotism of Dr Saulos Chilima in complementing Dr Chakwera in our quest to develop our country. Today, Malawi has won. My fellow Malawians, let me encourage those who didn’t register last year to go and register. More importantly, during polling day on 2nd July, 2020, we need to come out in our large numbers to vote for the Presidency of Dr Chakwera and Dr Chilima,” wrote Mia.
Speaking to journalists at Mount Soche before Chakwera presented his nomination papers, Mia said he was at peace with the Chakwera-Chilima pair.
“Sidik Mia is a man of honour. What is say is what I will do. What is all important is to see that Malawi has best leader and this is what we are doing. For me to have come back into politics was to make sure that we have a leader that will represent the nation and solve the problems that have engulfed the nation for several years.
“So for me the office of the vice presidency is less important than to fight for the rights of the people in any capacity,” he said.
Mia was Chakwera’s running mate in the 2019 elections which saw the MCP securing second position while UTM came third.
Triumvirate of Chakwera, Mia and Chilima possible in MCP-UTM alliance
It’s a fact that Malawians who are agitating for change in this country want a grand opposition alliance to boot out the besieged Democratic Progressive Party. In this grand alliance, they mostly want the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) to partner with UTM.
In the meantime, both parties have officially announced to the nation that they have formed a task force to discuss the possibility of forming the alliance in question. This is refreshing news.
In this article, I would like to put forward a model for an alliance involving these two parties where I propose that it must involve the trio of MCP President Dr Lazarus Chakwera, his deputy Sidik Mia and the UTM President Saulos Chilima. Reaching this far, one would say that this is a complex calculus to solve. I agree but it is doable. I urge you, as you go through the write-up, to more importantly pay attention to the justification behind the proposal this model so provides. As a disclaimer, I don’t intend to demean anyone in this discourse and if it so turns out, I want the consumer of this write-up to ignore such weakness but rather concentrate and/or critique the advanced proposal(s). Let’s go!
In my view and probably also the view of many like-minded Malawians, we consider it axiomatic to postulate that Malawi Congress Party (MCP), is, unless things change in the near future, a strong party and UTM a junior party with potential to come of age in years to come, all conditions constant that is. To substantiate this fact, the performance of the annulled presidential election tells it all. Dr Lazarus Chakwera of MCP got roughly one million and seven hundred thousand votes whereas Chilima got roughly one million votes. On the part of MPs, MCP got over 50 MPs and if we add the independent members who joined MCP, the number of MCP MPs now are close to 70 in Parliament. On the other hand, UTM got 4 MPs. These facts; these statistics cited show that a good number of Malawians wanted Chakwera to lead as President of the republic of Malawi as opposed to Chilima, that is if we leave out the embattled President Peter Mutharika of DPP.
This being politics and on account of the strength of the party, Chakwera, in my considered view, ought to earn the right of being a torchbearer of any possible alliance between MCP and UTM.
However, one thing must also be made very clear: much as UTM is, in my view, not as strong as compared to MCP as evidenced by the number of MPs it got; Chilima as an individual is undoubtedly a strong candidate hence I consider him a king-maker in such possible alliance and in the present political environment. In the annulled presidential election, he put up a gallant fight, he energized his support base and getting one million votes wasn’t a joke. He earned for himself political respect after being sidelined by the DPP. It’s now a settled question that Chilima, whether one likes it or not, is a political force to reckon with in this country, at least for now. This is the sole reason why Malawians want an alliance between MCP and UTM to deal with torturous DPP once and for all.
In terms of who has a better vision for our country, I contend that Dr Chakwera and Dr Chilima are at par. Other people would argue that Chakwera has better vision for our country than Chilima. Others would argue the vice-versa. This is akin to a debate football fanatics the world over have as regards Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The bottom line is that both Chakwera and Chilima are good in their own right just like Messi and Ronaldo are as well. What, in my view, is separating the two are the strength of their respective parties as already explained.
So if settled that Chakwera should be the presidential candidate for the alliance, then does it follow that Chilima should be his running-mate? This model says NO. Chilima should not be Chakwera’s running-mate. Why?
Well, Chilima supporters and most well-meaning Malawians think Chilima can be the game changer—like the missing piece in the jig-saw puzzle for the development of this project called Malawi. He can be the catalyst to bring the prosperity Malawians want to see. I share the same sentiments.
However, I contend that making Chilima vice president would not give Chilima the platform for Malawians to exploit his full potential. Chilima would continue to be a liability, a burden to tax-payers as vice president. Why? We Malawians including Chilima himself know that the vice presidency in our country is an inconsequential position. Useless position. This is a delegated position. You wait for your boss, the President to give you something to do.
If the relationship between the President and the Veep is sour as it is now, the Vice president is reduced to a lame duck status. In the words of Chilima himself, the veep is reduced to a non-functional status only existing on paper but with zero impact on the ground.
Those who strain the relationship between the President and the vice president are those who surround the President. It has happened at least since Cassim Chilumpha days till now. Vice Presidency, in this current legal configuration in this country, is a liability to tax-payers money… a poisoned chalice. If Chilima can accept to be running-mate of Dr Chakwera, it would mean he simply wants to serve his interests as an individual and not the interests of the nation. This is the case because we can’t expect him, as vice president, in the next five years, to be a functional vice president when the trend has been horrible for the past former vice presidents to date.
It is against this background that this alliance model proposes that Chilima, in this alliance, should be made prime minister. This means that after winning the election, the MCP-UTM led government should amend necessary laws to provide for the office of the Prime Minister. This will be someone responsible for the operations of government with clear constitutional or statutory duties, responsibilities and power. This should be an arrangement where the prime-minister, once appointed should never be un-appointed but serve for the rest of the term of the President. This arrangement, would be a win-win arrangement for MCP-UTM supporters and more importantly, a win for Malawi.
Now that Chakwera would be the presidential candidate and Chilima the prime-minister in this model, then who would be Chakwera’s running-mate? In this alliance model, I propose that the alliance presidential candidate, in this case Chakwera, should be given the prerogative to appoint his running-mate.
At this juncture, the model proposes that Chakwera, in exercise of his prerogative power, should still maintain his choice of picking Honorable Sidik Mia as running-mate. Why? A running-mate, in my view, should be someone one can feel comfortable to work closely with…someone the Presidential candidate enjoys bromance with. I think, in this respect, Mia remains a perfect candidate.
This model considers not only Mia as a perfect candidate for running-mate position in a possible alliance with UTM but also important for the unity of this country. Remember, one of the pillars of the Chakwera High-5 agenda is to unite the country. Granted, both Chakwera and Chilima hails from the central region. Having a Chakwera-Chilima ticket would be to confirm fears the people from the southern region are been made to have that MCP and UTM want to wrestle leadership from the region and that they should not allow that to happen. This explains the quick DPP-UDF alliance to lock-up the region and take the battle to their opponent base(s).
If we have Sidik Mia in the alliance configuration as running-mate, that move would send a strong signal that both Chakwera and Chilima are serious about the rhetoric of uniting our country. It would also mean a serious attempt to get a significant number of votes from the region. The north has Catherine Gotani Hara as Speaker of the National Assembly—an arm of government. This, in my view, is enough for the northern region. We need a figure from the southern region in this possible alliance and in my view, it is only Mia from the Shire Valley whom the cap is perfectly fitting.
And Boom!
We have made a winning and meaningful grand opposition alliance taking into consideration the matrix of unity and competent leaders to move the country forward. Shall this alliance fail to materialize, whether based on this model or a different model from this; it’s either DPP-UDF alliance may somehow win the fresh elections or if they fail to garner 50% plus one votes, then MCP will square off with DPP in the second round where UTM might be a spectator. In this case, UTM may not have a good bargaining power with MCP than they now have. I rest my case.
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Trouble is brewing in opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with three factions emerging, one made up of 37 Members of parliament who were sponsored by Sidik Mia and won in the May 21 elections and two others led by Lazarus Chakwera and Ken Kandodo, it has been established.
According to the information we have got at hand, On Saturday, June 8th, 2019. MCP President Chakwera called all the MCP parliamentarians, telling them that they should not register at the Malawi Assembly because there is a case at the caught against the Presidential elections results.
This did not go well with the 37 parliamentarians who were sponsored by Mia who went ahead to register at he national Assembly, saying they can no longer be told what to do with Chakwera, whose mandate to run for the Malawi Presidency has expired.
The 37 members of parliament out of the 55 MPs which MCP has, have openly endorsed Sidik Mia as the leader of Malawi Congress Party, and they want him to steer the MCP on the road to 2024.
Chakwera knowing that he has lost the plot, he went ahead to parliament to register while the 37 Members of Parliament pushing for Mia’s Takeover of MCP leadership are currently at parliament doing orientation.
All is not well with Chakwera who seems to be at war with the man he picked to be his running mate who now has the support of the majority in MCP to lead the party as Chakwera has become irrelevant to the future of MCP.
Efforts to get reaction from Mia provided futile. But readers will be updated as the developments unfolds once something pops up.
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President Mutharika’s electoral victory a done deal-Mchacha
Written by Patseni Mauka
Before experiencing the death of a president in office, Malawians only concentrated on the name and character of the presidential candidate to decide who to vote for in an election. The name of a running mate was not that crucial. Not many people thought an entire president could die in Malawi.
Joyce Banda and Bingu Campaigning
When former President Bingu Wa Mutharika, a great achiever in his first term as president, selected Joyce Banda as his running mate for his second bid for the presidency, many people concentrated on Bingu’s impeccable achievements. They voted for the pair.
Unfortunately, Bingu died with two years before the end of his second term and Joyce Banda took over. The succession process was a nightmare for the country. Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) didn’t want her to take over because being a family party, they wanted Bingu’s brother Peter to succeed him. Officially, they said Joyce Banda could not take over because she had formed her own party while still vice president.
On the other hand, those that agreed that Banda was constitutionally the right person to replace the departed president, faced the reality of having Joyce Banda becoming president regardless of the fact that Bingu chose her as a running mate mainly because of the women’s vote and not any known credentials.
Notwithstanding anybody’s views on whether she was constitutionally entitled to become president or whether she was competent enough to be president, Joyce Banda was sworn in as president in April 2012.
As expected by most people, her performance was below average and she oversaw heavy devaluation of the Kwacha and increase in cost of living. But her famous legacy is the cashgate financial scandal. Billions of taxpayers money were stolen under her watch and participation.
The lesson learned from Joyce Banda’s ascendancy to power is that anything can happen even to a president. It is therefore important to scrutinize not only presidential candidates but their running mates as well to avoid ending up with an incompetent or thieving president.
President Peter Mutharika’s running mate, Everton Chimulilenji, is a big flop. He is totally unqualified to be a vice president. Chimulilenji doesn’t posses any leadership qualities. Crucial among the qualities he doesn’t have is vision for Malawi, mental capacity for problem solving and potential to motivate professionals in different fields of the Malawi economy.
Chimulirenji speaking at the rally pic MANA
Most DPP members were disappointed with Mutharika’s choice of running mate such that the presentation of nomination papers by the DPP leader, Professor Peter Mutharika, turned into a somber ceremony for the party.
Chimulilenji’s main focus now is assuring Mutharika that he will be nothing but a puppet. He wants Mutharika to know that he has no presidential ambition and that his job is doing everything that Mutharika tells him without questioning.
In his many years as a member of parliament, I have never heard him speaking and articulating issues with brilliance of a man who should be vice president and potential president. At parliamentary level, he has no achievements of national importance that I know.
MCP President Lazarous Chakwera with his Vice President during the Convention in Lilongwe – Pic by Abel Ikilon
There is very little Lazarus Chakwera’s running mate, Sidik Mia, can show as his achievements for Malawi as a politician for the 15 years he has been active. Most achievements are personal and relate to his ability to successfully hoodwink leaders and followers of different parties into giving him senior party positions and ministerial posts.
Mia uses his wealth to hide his mediocre style of leadership and burning ambition to become president of Malawi. In Joyce Banda’s PP, Mia boot-licked and spent his way to the vice presidency of the party. He then went on a spending spree to convince Joyce Banda to choose him as his running mate.
In one of the embarrassing episodes of desperation, at a PP rally in Chilomoni, he instructed women to vote for a fellow woman, Joyce Banda. He told the women that if they don’t vote for Joyce Banda, they should consider themselves witches! Joyce Banda who was sitting just close to Mia was seen with a face of disapproval and embarrassment.
On the other hand, Dr Micheal Usi is a new politician. He joined politics less than a year ago. He has no financial scandals. He is known for speaking his mind and will be of great help to UTM’s presidential candidate Dr Saulos Chilima who needs people who can advise him professionally and not just praise singers.
Dr Usi has one clear advantage over his rivals; development expertise. As former Country Director for ADRA Malawi, Usi has hands-on experience on areas like food security, nutrition, and economic empowerment. His hands-on approach to leadership is what made him to include himself among the actors who have been at the centre of Tikuferanji, a radio and television drama series.
Tikuferanji’s objective is to address Malawi’s current affairs and other issues that affect day to day life of Malawians. Tikuferenji is not just a sewero. It is a communication tool for different issues that affect Malawi’s development. Dr Usi is just the right candidate who feels strongly about various issues affecting Malawi.
In my opinion, the Chilima and Usi pair is the best combination that Malawi has ever had. It is a good mix of development and leadership experience coupled with high education, knowledge of the issues that affect Malawi and track record of achievements in both public and private sector.
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If Joyce Banda and Moses Kumkuyu succeed in their plan to swallow MCP, it will be the greatest coup of all time
Written by Patseni Mauka
As Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera plans to protect and reward Joyce Banda and her team of fellow PP cashgaters in the unlikely event that he wins elections, Banda, former and current PP members are planning to swallow MCP. A source close to the secret meetings for the plan has revealed that the main architects of the plan are Joyce Banda, her son Roy Kachale and Moses Kumkuyu.
MCP is now full of former PP senior members including Moses Kumkuyu, Sidik Mia, Harry Mkandawire, Sosten Gwengwe, Ken Zikhale Ng’oma, Ken Kandodo and Cornelius Mwalwanda. Former PP Vice President Khumbo Kachale has joined MCP in a coalition. These former PP members plus the current PP members brought by Joyce Banda are having secret meetings to plan on how to take over MCP. The main man from the group of former PP members that joined MCP is Kumkuyu.
People’s Party plan to take over MCP has been made easy by Lazarus Chakwera who has already shared power with PP before winning elections. Observing photos of joint rallies between the two parties or three if you count briefcase Freedom Party (FP), one painfully notes that power has already been shared between naive MCP leader Lazarus Chakwera, cashgate queen Joyce Banda, Sidik Mia and Khumbo Kachale.
After these comes Joyce Banda’s son Roy Kachale and other smaller actors like MCP Secretary General Eisenhower Mkaka. The rest of the MCP supporters trail way behind on the ladder of power without knowing that their party has been sold.
After failing to revive itself due to an embarrassing loss of power in the 2014 elections, PP plans to swallow MCP and make itself stronger than before. The prospect of having a strong PP with the same politicians that master minded one of the biggest financial scandals in Malawi is scary. It is scary because, thanks to their mafia way of doing things, five years after the scandal, these politicians have no been arrested.
Cashgate Convict Oswald Lutepo mentioned Joyce Banda and her People’s Party (PP) as the main beneficiaries of billions of stolen taxpayers money. Lutepo said the money was for PP’s 2014 campaign. He was a member of PP and was seen many times in the company of Joyce Banda at State House ‘donating’ vehicles. He ‘donated’ billions of Kwachas in cash and kind. For money to come out of government accounts without obvious connections to them, PP politicians led by Joyce Banda sought help from unscrupulous businessmen.
Unfortunately, the only people who have been taken to court and convicted are the businessmen and some civil servants. The PP politicians who were the master-minders are freely roaming the streets and making coalitions with other politicians to be elected back into government in order to continue from where they left. No senior PP politician has been charged and tried.
The executive branch of government which is supposed to charge such suspected criminals and take them to court is headed by politicians. The current ruling DPP politicians have their own version of cashgate dating way back before Joyce Banda became president. On top of that Joyce Banda was one of the senior DPP members when the DPP version of cashgate took place.
Despite the fact that Joyce Banda is now a political rival to DPP, their roots are entangled, so is their style of stealing money from account number one. DPP would also pay a heavy price if the trial of Joyce Banda revealed more on DPP version of cashgate. Seven ministers in the current cabinet are implicated in the DPP cashgate. That is why Peter Mutharika, the head of state can not prosecute Joyce Banda. These are the main reasons why Joyce Banda and other PP politicians are not being arrested.
If Joyce Banda and Moses Kumkuyu succeed in their plan to swallow MCP, it will be the greatest coup of all time. Credit to them, they have chosen the best time to attempt the take over. MCP has the weakest leadership since it’s formation 59 years ago. Get your popcorn and enjoy the drama.
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Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president and presidential running mate in the forthcoming watershed election, Sidik Mia
Submitted byInnocencia Chikuse
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president and presidential running mate in the forthcoming watershed election, Sidik Mia, said they are upbeat of taking over the reins of power next month.
Mia was speaking at Migowi primary school ground where a throng of people had gathered to hear from him.
“You would think for a moment that that the sea of people was in one of our strongholds but no, this was Phalombe—probably the MCP stronghold in the making,” said Mia convinced with the turn-out of the people in the Lomwe belt which is considered to be the stronghold of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
“The people in Phalombe, just like the majority Malawians across the country, are also fed up with this failed government. They came in their large numbers to make a statement of intent that they want to join the majority Malawians to democratically remove this government from power next month.
“They came to assure us that they are ready to install Dr Lazarus Chakwera—a mature and fatherly national figure who is longing not for vengeance but national unity and development—as our President next month,” said Mia.
He continued:
“We’re closing in & victory is in sight.You see, we are traversing the width and breadth of the country and the mood wherever we are going is crystal clear: People say they want to remove the current president—because he has failed to deliver—and install Dr Chakwera—because he’s the only candidate who is ready and steady to govern,” he said.
During the rally, Mia, who was accompanied by National Executive Members, Edgar Chipalanjira, Enock Kanyimbira, and Lawrence Malemia and Mr Nyakamera and Ali M’balaka from Peoples Party, one of their alliance partners, said Dr Chakwera will transform Phalombe.
He said that Phalombe produces a lot of rice, beans and other stuffs. As such, he promised that the Chakwera led administration will establish factories that will be managed by farmers themselves through cooperatives, the aim being to add value to their agro-products before selling them.
As Chakwera and the alliance partners Joyce Banda and Khumbo Kachali are busy canvassing votes in northern region, Mia is also pushing in the once believed to be a no go zone area for other parties in the Lomwe belt.
Mia addressing Chilobwe citizens at Naotcha ground
Submitted By: Innocencia Chikuse
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Deputy President who is also presidential running mate in the forthcoming elections, Sidik Mia, said his party will move to deal with urban poverty by protecting workers from exploitation.
Mia was speaking yesterday at Naotcha ground, Chilobwe Township in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre. This area is in Blantyre city south whose shadow MP is Moses Kunkuyu.
Citing the first bullet of the party’s manifesto on page seven under ensuring economic growth and development, Mia, a business tycoon himself, said that MCP will “raise the minimum wage from MK 25,000 to MK 50,000 and the zero-rated Pay as You Earn (PAYE) tax from K 35,000 to MK 100,000 to ensure working Malawians have a dignified living.”
He said it is appalling to see how Malawians are being exploited in their work places saying no one can survive with money as low as K25,000 the whole month. Mia, who appealed to the people to vote for Dr Lazarus Chakwera as President and Moses Kunkuyu as their lawmaker further said that this ‘madness of using and abusing workers will come to an end once we take over,”
The vice president designate said that protecting workers from exploitation is what even international conventions demand. For instance, he cited article 23 (3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which stipulates that “everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity…” as another basis in which the MCP government shall base to improve industrial relations in the country.
Reports indicate that Malawian workers are used and abused, given the low wages and/or salaries they receive in Asian shops and industrial sites in Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu.
Philanthropist Sidik Mia who is also a business tycoon and seasoned politician—now leading opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential running mate in the 21 May 2019 watershed election—renowned for his charity work, has now gone flat out to help people who have been adversely affected by floods in Shire Valley.
‘As BBC put it, the floods this year caught us (Malawi) off-guard. However, on our part as Sidik Mia Foundation, our charity machinery has been activated and we have started giving help to those who have been affected.
“I will visit four affected areas here in Chikwawa and later in the afternoon, I will descend to Nsanje for the same exercise,” said Mia at Kulima village in Chikwawa—the first place for the exercise where he distributed Maize Flour (Ufa) and cow peas to the affected people.
– Sidik Mia
Sidik Mia on the ground helping flood victims in Shire Valley
Quizzed if he is doing it out of politics, Mia said helping people is his way of life.
“Are you a stranger in Shire Valley and in our country,” queried Mia adding “charity is part of my life. It is in my DNA and this is why we have Sidik Mia Foundation…it is a charitable organization.”
Politically, state controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC TV) in its bulletin yesterday carried comments from a social media bully Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadet, Lyson Sibande, masquerading as a social commentator, where in advancing partisan interests for his party, attacked the opposition MCP and Sidik Mia for holding celebrations, referring to the launch of the party Manifesto in Lilongwe, over the weekend.
According to the DPP operative Sibande, MCP and Mia were insensitive to hold the Manifesto launch when a cross section of the people were affected by floods.
Mia downplayed the accusation as cheap political propaganda.
“Information about the extent of the damage was trickling in on the eve and during the launch of our Manifesto such that our president, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, directed during the Manifesto launch that we fundraise to help those affected by the floods. Over 5 million kwacha was realized—within minutes—following that plea on that day, is this what they are calling being “insensitive” to the plight of flood victims?” countered Mia.
As we draw close to elections, DPP is trying its best to discredit MCP, which many political commentators, are hailing it (MCP) of being “ready and steady to govern” and more importantly they say that the MCP, a liberation party, is now, more than ever before, “focused, organized and united” to win the May 21 watershed election.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The First Vice President of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) who is also the party’s running mate in the May 21 elections Sidik Mia on Tuesday hosted the party’s candidates from Eastern and Southern Region.
The meeting, which took place at his residence in Blantyre, was organized to kickstart the campaign termed “Operation Kwacha” in these regions.
The VP urged every candidate to go and campaign for Dr. Lazarus Chakwera who is the party torchbearer that MCP forms government in May 2019.
During the meeting Mia donated 20,000 pieces of cloth to be shared equally among all the constituencies in eastern and southern regions.
One of the candidates for Mangochi Monkeybay, Gerald Kazembe, donated MK2 million to the MCP Campaign Directorate to be used for campaign in the two regions.
To end it all, Mr. Ceasar Fachi, an MCP supporter, donated 5,000 t-shirts to be shared among the candidates.
Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and Hon. Sidik Mia presented their nomination papers last week Monday in what has been described as the best presentation by any presidential pair so far.
According to critics and political analysts, MCP is the most organized party and is leading in the May 21 elections poll.
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) First Vice President, Sidik Mia has assured Malawians that MCP is the only party which is ready enough to form the next government.
Speaking to multitudes in Lilongwe Mpenu constituency where he was guest of honour at the party’s political rally, Mia hinted that, the seriousness that MCP has demonstrated on the ground trims all other parties from public confidence, leaving the main opposition starring gaudy in peoples hearts, ahead of the May, 2019 polls.
Citing points of seriousness in an interview monitored on Times Radio, Mia said MCP was the first party in the country to hold an elective conference in April, 2017.
The political heavyweight said, MCP was also the first party to go everywhere in the country to sensitize people to register in the voters’ registration exercise, just as it was the first party to conduct parliamentary and local council primaries in all 193 constituencies across the country.
Above all, Mia said Malawians have invested all their confidence in MCP, as it was the first party to unveil its presidential running mate when other parties are scampering and rocked with leadership as well as running mate crisis.
He therefore emphasized that, MCP is blessed with the best leadership of Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, who has the best policies to move Malawi from the current disarray, that has come about due to poor leadership.
High on the agenda was to make Agriculture a priority through huge investment and the introduction of universal fertilizer subsidy, in the very first year MCP takes over reigns of power.
Against the claims that Malawi’s economy is growing, Mia stressed that, “We in MCP understand that Agriculture is the mainstay of this country and that, who ever neglects Agriculture can never look at Malawi as growing.”
Said Mia: “Our priority will see to it that people harvest a lot and that, they have enough food throughout the year, with surplus to sell at the ready markets that will offer better prices.”
He said, MCP will utilize the vast resources of water that Malawi has from Karonga to Nsanje, and therefore ensure that irrigation farming is put into practice, to enable local farmers harvest twice or thrice per year.
Mia therefore urged people of Mpenu to rally their support behind the MCP power house by voting for MCP leaders with Lazarus Chakwera as President.
Mia had during the function unveiled the party’s Secretary General, Eisenhower Mkaka as the Parliamentary candidate for the area.
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On the other hand, Dr Micheal Usi is a new politician. He joined politics less than a year ago. He has no financial scandals. He is known for speaking his mind and will be of great help to UTM’s presidential candidate Dr Saulos Chilima who needs people who can advise him professionally and not just praise singers.
