Reports reaching the Maravi Post indicate there might be trouble brewing between the main two partners UTM and MCP in the Tonse Alliance.
According to people inside both camps, The Malawi Congress party (MCP) and UTM are engaged in a bitter fight for supremacy. The fight comes against the background that Sidik Mia who it is not a hidden secret sponsored Lazarus Chakwera’s rise to power, using money he stole from DPP when he served as secretary-general, believes he deserves to be treated as Vice President of Malawi and not Saulos Chilima.
The arrangement that Sidik Mia who apart from being currently serving as Minister of Transport and Public Works since June 2020, is also the Deputy President of the Malawi Congress Party is acting as Vice President has angered Saulos Chilima who has instructed his media team to go flat out on Sidik Mia.
This has seen Malawi Congress party (MCP) media team coming out in defence of their cash cow Sidik Mia.
Compounding the issues is the history of Saulos Chilima, who is known to indulge in one or two alcoholic drinks and at the moment is not having none of the Shenanigans from Sidik Mia.
Former President Bakili Muluzi shared on his Facebook page that Saulos Chilima has a history of never been in good terms with his bosses in all the jobs he has had, while Mia has not been employed anywhere since he has no papers.
Bakili writes Mia and Chilima are both serving in the “Nyau May Try Govt”; that was put in power through a judicial coup.
The fighting is coming while Malawians are waiting for promises made by the *Nyau may try govt*.The promises include: three meals a day, cheap fertilizer, 1 million jobs in a year for the youth, a bullet train connecting Malawi from Chitipa to Nsanje and 100 thousand nontaxable salary among others.
His excellency the state president of the republic of Malawi, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, please kindly address this issue asap. We are not ready for another DPP government and if this rumour is true then your government is on the wrong path. Some of us spent at least a million kwacha of our hard earned cash through assisting people to campaign for Tonse alliance outside Tonse alliance structures while exposing DPP of what it truly was. We worked hard to boot out the regime which had nothing to offer Malawi other than nepotism, theft, embezzlement, cronyism and corruption and we expected nothing in return other than good governance. Allowing DPP to bounce back after a mere 5 years will be the greatest disservice, his excellency, you can do to our nation. Do not be fooled by anyone Sir that DPP is no longer strong because that is not true and it is only UDF which is on a death bed because of a serious miscalculation which I do not want to shed light on.
There is only one president and it is you his excellency and Dr Chilima is your vice president. If you mistreat Dr Chilima then be assured that you will be a one term president. I would like to propose that you should sit down with Dr Chilima and talk like men about how you can strengthen your parties while at the same time weaken DPP. We can all see that there is unhealthy competition between UTM and MCP and this must stop as a matter of urgency.
As for Hon Mia, I know for a fact that he somehow has this belief that MCP can single-handedly win which is not true. Numbers do not lie and I can say without fear of any contradiction that DPP was more popular in lowershire compared to MCP if the votes for the nullified 2019 and the fresh election of 2020 are anything to go by. Hon Mia should tame his appetite for vice presidency before he drags you Sir out of the oval office. This is my free advice and ignore it at your own peril.