Three former officers of the Northern Region Football Association (NRFA) have written the Football Association of Malawi (Fam) Electoral Appeals Committee, asking it to nullify outcomes of the physique’s elective normal assembly.
The assembly was held in Mzimba District on Saturday.
The trio—specifically Chauka Mwasinga, Desire Bellings and Ralph Kasilika— boycotted the polls over unresolved issues they declare have been despatched to Fam earlier than the elections.
Fam Executive Member Felistus Dowe, who was the returning officer, went forward with the polls, having declared the three as absentees.
In a letter, which Times Sport has seen, the three have cited “electoral irregularities” as the rationale they’ve sought the Fam Electoral Appeals Committee’s intervention on the difficulty.
“The NRFA constitution requires a 21-day notice period for an EGM, yet Fam, in its letter dated 24th February 2025, only provided five days’ notice to the elective general assembly on 1st March 2025.
“Further, the quorum for the General Assembly is 2/3 majority of the members entitled to vote. Each of the seven districts sends four delegates amounting to 28 delegates. Therefore, in order to constitute a quorum at least 18 delegates must be present,” the letter reads.
The three additionally say Dossi needs to be penalised for allegedly flouting electoral procedures.
They say, as an illustration, that Dossi proceeded with the EGM with out forming a quorum.
“Fam returning officer, counsel Felister Dossi, still went ahead with the elective AGM and conducted business of the day with only 16 of the 28 expected delegates.
“In view of the foregoing, we appeal for [the] intervention of your office and seek the following reliefs: Nullification of the elections that purportedly took place on 1st March 2025;
“Resolve the registered electoral irregularities and then conduct fresh elections in terms of [sic] the NFRA Constitution; Imposition of disciplinary sanctions against the Fam Returning Officer Ms Felister Dossi for flouting [provisions of] the NRFA Constitution,” the ex-officials say.
Dossi stated she would look forward to communication, from the affiliation’s secretariat, on the matter.
Meanwhile, one of many nation’s famend soccer analysts, Thokozani Chimbali, has stated the three complainants have a case to show.
“In this case, if the required number of delegates was 28 and only 16 voted, then they did not make the quorum and this was against provisions of NRFA’s constitution; that is, in line with Article 24 of the association,” the previous Silver Strikers chief government officer stated.