***ITSANANA: One of Aford cashgate buses***

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-It will end in tears! As one way of consolidating power, the main shareholder in Tonse administration Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has launched a hurricane assault on UTM in the Northern region by re-branding Alliance For Democracy (AFORD) which is led by Enoch Chihana for 2025 tripartite polls as tipping trigger.

This publication understands that UTM’s ‘headquarters’ is in the North where the party enjoys more support than any other party so far.

AFORD is slowly growing in the North with support from MCP according to multiple sources within Tonse administration.

“By 2024, Chilima will be finished by MCP. Chakwera has tied him to the corner with rope. He can’t breath anymore. AFORD is now the main partner of MCP in the Tonse Alliance.

“They get ‘scandalous’ businesses than any other partner. It’s a strategic decision that MCP through by Chakwera two ‘notorious’ boys Mkaka and Chimwendo Banda that have done to put SKC off the map and indirectly make him a sleeping partner in the system”, discloses inside Tonse administration.

He added, “So far Mkaka is the ‘Prime Minister’ in the Chakwera cabinet. It’s a tough situation for the UTM folks as most of them are just messengers in the government.

“Why must AFORD acquire a bus and not UTM which is a strong partner of MCP? Don’t be cheated, there is a lot happening in this government,” wondered a source from MCP.

Reports indicate from grapevine that Malawi President Chakwera has not been answering his vice Saulos Chilima calls and text messages of late hence not seen twice at Chakwera COVID-19 press briefings.

On Sunday, January 31, 2021 signs were everywhere that AFORD) is strategically regrouping and rebranding.

As part of re-organizing itself, AFORD has managed to Open a National Office in the capital Lilongwe, acquire Party cloth, T-shirts and caps which the Party is distributing Nationwide.