As dust refuses to settle in the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the party’s leader Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has summoned all regional, district, governors and all youths directors to his Villa House in Mangochi to cox them into endorsing Dalitso Kabambe as the party’s leader.
Both Mutharika and Kabambe are from Thyolo district.
Sources within the Central Executive Committee say the development follows research findings that are suggesting that two contenders, Joseph Mwanamvekha and Kondwani Nankhumwa are away ahead of APM’s anointed heir, Kabambe.
Kabambe a the former Reserve Bank Governor who gave himself an outrageous K27 milloon per month salary was axed by President Lazarus Chakwera after change of leadership at Capital Hill.
Sources indicate that APM has noticed that Mwanamvekha and Nankhumwa are ahead of his anointed son, Kabambe amongst all voters in the party from constituency to regional and parliamentary levels.
“Bwana as we stand now, Mwanamvekha and Nankhumwa can not lose the election at the convention to Kabambe. These two gentlemen are so much loved in the party at any level, you can imagine,” said a source.
APM is said to have been briefed by one of the central executive members who was part of the research team.
Kabambe has been tasked to pair his candidature with former First lady Gertrude Mutharika as his running mate during the 2025 tripartite polls targeting Eastern Region votes, a move many feel is a ploy to prolong the Mutharika dynasty.
Recently Joseph Mwanamveka has been on the campaign trail all over Malawi to woo support for his candidature at the DPP convention which is to be done in 2023 according to DPP constitution. and
According to the research DPP central executive made, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Kondwani Nankhumwa who is also DPP Vice President is leading in the polls with a comfortable percentage. Nankhumwa is leading by 55%, DPP spokesman on Finance in Parliament, Joseph Mwanamveka coming second at 30%, Bright Msaka who is DPP Vice President for the East comes third with 10% while Dr Daliso Kabambe comes last with 5%.
The above numbers have made Professor Mutharika and his inner circle to summon governors to threaten them so that they endorse Kabambe now though he is not popular.
Many Malawians have expressed concern over Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika type of leadership where he is being bulldozed to make unpopular decisions against the will of the people.
I thought it would be a genuine candidature until I read that DK was to have Gertrude as running mate! It’s bullshit through and through…
this is fake and apm can not do such a stupid thing. if the summoning is true it might be he wants to discuss with them about the new spate of violence the party youth has acquired from the undemocratic notorious cso groups. this story as it can be read has been written on assumptions and fear of unknown is the triggering factor. as the democratically elected party president he has a core duty of unifying the party not this trash authored by a mercenary jorno. give us evidence that apm picked kabambe. is it a crime for anyone from thyolo and any one from mutharika family to show interest of contesting at any party position. who make government salaries? is it the employee or the employer? who employed who here, is it kabambe or the ministry of finance? to hell with your foolish thinking. everyone including you are at liberty to contest at any political position. stop dictating on us who to choose. we are capable of making our own decisions. engaging mud-slinging tactics wont work for your favourites. let the regional, districts and constituency governors speak for themselves after meeting apm, don’t put words in their mouths. apm made it point clear that he will and will only support the one to be chosen at the convention. or is it an indirect campaign for utmcp after dividing dpp? you are the very same guys who attack dpp leadership when things go wrong like in the cicurmstance where the party realised the two statements signed by 2 different officials: mwanamvekha and bj.