Former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika is beating emphatically his successor Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in a poll survey conducted by REALITY ON THE GROUND (ROTG) SURVEY.
The survey says 82% of the respondents say former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika handled this country better Tonse Alliance members of Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and Dr Saulosi Chilima. Chakwera gets 13% in the report.
In terms of methodology the survey says that the following tools and procedures were used.
•Regional representative sample of voting age citizens
-All respondents are randomly selected.
-Sample is distributed across Districts, Constituency & Wards.
•Sample size of 320 adults yields a margin of error of 5% at a 95%
The survey was done in conducted in the Northern Region between 23 December 2021 and 7 January 2022.
Malawians were asked on the economic status of the country, the majority interviewed regardless of their party affiliation felt that country’s economy is in shamble not because if Russia/Ukraine war but because of top officials in government and in cabinet.
The Tonse Alliance government is also faulted by 87% northerners regardless of party affiliation, felt Tonse Alliance has failed governing the country while 13% felt the alliance is governing well.
Majority of respondent say the continuity of borrowing is leading the country into bad direction.
The majority of respondents(84%) also say that the Tonse Alliance is heading into wrong directions.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, past thinkers said. Onto our journey to elections Malawians were sold a dummy. People in Malawi and those who heard Chakwera talk in the many countries he visited soon after tasting power, were cheated with his palaver and senseless poemlike speeches crafted by his son in law. It is only now that the world can see that all he has been dishing has been garbage.
If the survey is anything to trust then it says it all on its own. But knowing Malawians, they are saying that based on flimsy reasoning. Come next election they will go for mediocrity once again. The damage made by Tonse will take ages to repair, mainly when we all know that the rest of the world is also experiencing the pangs of the Economic Order. Much as the economic malaise has covered the whole world, progressive and forward thinking leaders are able to find solutions and development in their backyard can be noticed. Malawi has that capacity because if it didn’t have, all these globetrotting childishness wouldn’t be possible. Instead of Chakwera leading as promised in his meetings when he was a pauper, he has now chosen to become a tourist. Him and his friend used to say there is a lot of money in government. They said that with an aim of aligning their pockets with the money they had sniffed from the government coffers. It is now up to Malawians to judge for themselves who the worst devil is; one who was coined as a crook but developed the country and the economy was lively, against a crook who day in day out is on a stealing spree with total disregard of the stakeholders, no development worth writing home about? Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. God is punishing the voters for voting blindly!!!