2 The Lord stated to Gideon, “You have too many males. I can’t ship Midian into their fingers, or Israel would boast in opposition to me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ — Judges 7:2
14 But Samuel stated, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear?” – 1 Samuel 15:14
Malawi, like many African nations, has had multiple president; the nation at present has three former presidents, and 4 former vice presidents. To its credit score, the nation has produced one feminine Vice President who later turned the nation’s first feminine president. It has been a rocky, bumpy, and typically irritating highway to journey as Malawians grappled with international financial, political, and typically social machinations; add to this pure disasters and international well being menaces akin to COVID-19, HIV, and hen flu!
Truly, as a rustic, Malawi is surviving by the grace of God, as my late father used to say!
Recently, in an interview on Malawi Times TV, in an interview on Malawi TV, former President Arthur Peter Mutharika informed Times anchor Brian Banda that “there is no perfect leader…” and that the nation is beset with quite a few challenges, some inside, some pure disasters and others as a result of world financial order. These are all very true statements from the seasoned politician, whose background is constitutional legislation.
While in settlement with these feedback, many Malawians stook again, as they watched the image of him and UTM’s Dalitso Kabambe, speaking about an alliance within the forthcoming 2025 elections. Malawians usually are not new to alliances; there have been many previously because the demolition of the one-party state and ousting (by way of the vote) of former Life President Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda. Regrettably, none of them lasted to both the end line or have been they ever renewed.
This does beg the query, what’s newly-elected UTM chief DKK doing in an image with DPP’s APM? Is he maybe too younger to recall the line-up of our previous leaders and the way they’ve fared on the political platform within the nation? Many persons are actually baffled and asking questions. So far, the questions’ bucket is full and the reply bucket virtually empty. MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.
Below, is a rundown of among the murky waters the nation has skilled because the demolition of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) one-party rule from 1963 to 1994. While in 1963, Malawi was recent popping out of British colonial rule, with a middle-aged voter inhabitants, as we speak’s Malawi voting inhabitants is 80 p.c youth: individuals which can be 40 years outdated and underneath.
Let me spoil the ending right here: younger leaders will in every single place draw out younger voters in the identical approach girls draw out the ladies’s vote when the candidate is a lady; if political events usually are not drawing the youth out of the idle cloth and into the voting cubicles, it’s to their chagrin! Below is a background to the questions which can be baffling many Malawians, most that lived by way of the Kamuzu period, others by way of Bakili, Bingu, and Amai JB, and now the Tonse Alliance that gave Malawi the primary dead-in-office-Vice-President reminiscence that has scarred the nation for all times!
1. In 2014 SKC joined and added the throng of youthful Malawian voters into DPP, tipping the profitable vote in opposition to incumbent first feminine President, AMai Joyce Banda.
2. VERY SOON, the Mlakho wing of the social gathering very quickly despaired of the Ngoni Saulos Chilima and straight brought about a whole VP to be sidelined, by his president, in the identical method that Bingu had sidelined his VP JB. Both SKC and JB began their political events whereas serving a discontented President.
3. Thanks be to former first girl, Ambassador Callister Mutharika, who was courageous sufficient to say “aDaddy (DPP’s name for their leader) must not run again, he is too old.” THIS LED TO THE BIRTH OF UTM (that coincidentally elected SKC as its chief). The youthful Malawi was energized and through the year-long whistle-stop campaigns; younger Malawians turned out in massive numbers. Watching somebody that regarded like them on the political platform, should positively have been a strong deal with.
4. After the 2019 disastrous election theft, it was UTM’s SKC who challenged APM and MEC in court docket; he was LATER joined by MCP’s chief, incumbent President Chakwera.
5. Upon the MAJOR Constitutional Court victory, lots of Malawians have been inspired and applauded the alliance of MCP UTM with 8 different political events becoming a member of, and the Tonse Alliance received the 2020 election victory: with the elder Laz as President and youthful SKC as VP.
6. True blue in Malawi trend, members of the MCP part of the federal government, VERY SOON received bored with the VP, and chants of “Ayimanso!” let the cat out of the bag that LMC and SKC will need to have had a non-public settlement (if Laz turns into president first, then SKC will serve within the subsequent 5 years as President. But what was all this bleating about “Ayimanso”?
7. As has been the case in Malawi, VPs (aside from Kachale and Chimulililenji) haven’t fared effectively in Malawi’s historical past. (Chakuamba, Malewezi, Chilumpha, Joyce Banda, and now Saulos Chilima, have all been shunned by their presidents after doing the victory run into the State House.) June, 10, 2024 bears the ugly scar of such a actuality. For 30 years Malawi NEVER HAD A VP. As a nation, Malawians (each leaders and the led) have all these years solely proven their love and allegiance to the President; anybody else is sharing a limelight, and all Malawians suspect the VP needs to dim the top honcho’s limelight.
8. With VP Chilima’s tragic demise, the UTM struggled to discover a successor to the sensible Boy Wonder SKC. STRUGGLED.
9. Then got here an OUTSIDER known as Dalitso Kabambe. The paint was but to dry in his current casualty from makes an attempt to unseat (the a lot older) APM. The DPP elected Mutharika, that dude that was too outdated to contest for the presidency in 2019….. But on the UTM conference delegates outwitted by youth, some heavy male hegemony stuff, and Kabambe swept to the entrance, and scooped the UTM management.
10. These previous two weeks, talks of alliances have been ABLAZE (despite the fact that Malawians present disdain for alliance as soon as in energy: BUT THIS ONE IS MURKY FROM START TO FINISH. APM and his former competitor Dalitso Kabambe in ALLIANCE TALKS.
10. I really feel like a Rip Van Winkle of types. American playwright Washington Irvin tells a narrative a couple of man who sleeps for 20 years. HAVE I BEEN ASLEEP THIS LONG?
11. Who can be the Presidential candidate on this DPP/UTM togetherness bid to unseat the MCP’s President Lazarus Ckakwera? Would APM conform to be a VP to Dalitso Kabambe, in spite of everything, it’s nonetheless the youth (and girls) that can tip the profitable scales within the September 2025 elections?!
12. LASTILY, has the UTM been hoodwinked by smarty-pants DPP pundits? Could we be trying on the subtle gobbling up of the United Transformation Movement Party?
Something doesn’t ring effectively. Vote for Joyce Banda. Vote for reality, accountability, and sanity!
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