Kumangochita makani opanda phindu anzanutu alembatu apa. Zimvere montolo, bravo Aleke

Alamu ake nde anali a dolo mu chipanicho kenako anayamba za fodya kuthana ndi anzawo in the end zinawanyelela nde a Tembowo tsopano, angodzitengela penapake osadzimvetsa.

Bravo Ngwazi
 Iwe ndiye watsitsa mfundo........

Thomas Zibade Wrote:
If its not fair to blame the man who has failled to get the party back in goverment for two times,the man who takes the party as a persona property then please tell me who should we blame

The first time, if i may recall in 1994, it was Gwanda as Presidential candidate of MCP with John Tembo as the running mate and in 1999 it was Gwanda Chakwamba again (forgotten who was the running mate, possibly he had Chihana) - remember JZU campaining for people to vote for MCP MP's while couldnt give direction to MCP supporters as who to vote for as a presidential candidate?
Then came 2004, it was JZU himself as Presidential candidate with Peter Chiona as the running mate. and you know what was achieved? he took MCP to the point where it has failed since the coming in of multiparty! it has the highest members of MP's in the house and if consideration is applied of possible rigging of the elections by the UDF (as confirmed by late Dumbo Lemani) then John Tembo would have taken MCP into Government the very first time he has been its Presidential candidate. So there is no question of JZU taking the part as a personal property and as pointed out by the forums Ngwazi Its very unfair to blame Tembo,we have to accept that people come and go in positions of influence and power and especially in politics,durability is very rare.

Proffessionally Tembo is not a good national leader,too regionalistic.He has never liked the south or north.

A very, very interesting topic to Amikhe! As issues stand, Bingo was never meant to be at the helm, the elections were rigged. You can tell by the number of  MP's MCP has in the legislature. Amikhe dislikes repeating himself but I will say it again, majority rules. If we had a majority of MP's  on the governments side, we would never be going through these incidents whereby the budget is being rejected ajnd so fourth.

As to propriatorship of MCP, I have never heard bwana Tembo saying the party belongs to him. No. We must appreciate that to run a party is no joke especially if you are the strongest party in the nation. You get people who are there just to mess up matters and you have to stand up against them or the whole process will eventualy drown.

Long live JZU!

Dada Ngwazi wrote:

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 JZU is run out of ideas and manifestos to make him win the elections. He is a failure in all aspect of life (politics).

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That my friend is underestimating the powers that John Tembo wields and his durability as a politician and doing so is a sure sign that you are not or dont follow Malawi politics very well.I can agree with you that JZU is not the President now but as others have rightly pointed out,the UDF through late Dumbo Lemani(of all the people!)accepted that they rigged the last election,they stole the votes from JZU and gave them to Bingu,Dumbo stated that over 350 thousand votes were "transferred" in this way and that despite all the horror stories we here about the man.

He is the only party leader in the country to have associated with Muluzi to the point of voting for Muluzis third term bid but managed to keep his grip on both his party and his base.The late Chihana not only lost his support in the north and won only 6 seats in what was originally his home turf but lost his party as well since the Dindi Gowa Nyasulus,khwaulis and the Shawas started challenging him after his support for Muluzis third term.But for Tembo,the support he gave Muluzi brought with it monetary gains that he used wisely to consolidate his position in the party as well as the Central region by giving enough support to all those aspiring MPs that stood on MCP ticket,find out how a veteran like Ntaba lost Lilongwe South East to a little unknown Willard Gwengwe.

Again we have to thank JZU for making sure that Muluzis bid for third term failed because he instructed Kate Kainja and three otherMCP MPs not to turn up on the day of the voting as he knew that Bakili could not win without all the MCP MPs voting for him and that is why Bakili lost the voting by a mere three votes,he needed 128 votes but got only 125 and Bakili was very furious with John Tembo for not delivering yet he had walked away with close to MK65million,now there is a politician!.

At the moment,the Central region is strongly behind JZU and he is gonna retain all the seats in this region.The South is divided and so is the North.Bingu and Muluzi will share the spoils in the South with no clear majority and definitely JZU will scavenge the remaining votes,the north will vote mainly depending on who gets Goodall Gondwe,if Bingu does not make Goodall Gondwe his running mate then he will lose the northern vote but if he does make his VP then he is assured of the vote.However approaches have been made from the MCP camp to GG to consider becoming JZU running mate if Bingu does not make him one and if,I am saying if,GG crosses to MCP then its game over for both Bingu and Muluzi.

So there you are my friend Dada,you can never rule out the man,you underestimate Tembo at your own peril.

THOMAS ZIBADE wrote:

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Kamuzu Banda himself didnt see good leadership in Tembo thats why he left it in Gwanda's hands.

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I know you might have read what Ntaba said but you can be assured that this is a wrong impression created by a frustrated person called Herthewick.

The truth of the matter is that when the MCP by then led by Kamuzu realised that they could not win any votes in the Southern region in the 1994 P&PE without a hard hitter,a heavyweight who could bring the Southern vote.Two people were approached,Brown Mpinganjira and the just released Gwanda Chakuamba.Gwanda had hoped that when he came out of prison,joined and donated over MK10000 to the UDF,the UDF people would give him a senior party position befitting a man of his stature.When this did not materialise and the MCP approached him after BJ had rebuffed their approaches,he tied his return to the party with certain conditions and the main one being that he should only be second to Kamuzu in the party hierarchy as well as in government.This did not seem a hard thing for a seasoned politician like JZU to accept because he wanted the party to do well in the elections and he never objected to these conditions and surely MCP though it lost the 1994 elections got all the 9 seats in Nsanje and 3 in Chikwawa because of this reasoning.

Now,because Gwanda had become number two in the party,it was obvious that when Kamuzu died and in the absence of a convention,he takes over and at the following two conventions Gwanda won the presidency but JZU as determined as ever never gave up and today look where he is,now there my friend we have a politician and not what Ntaba is claiming.Actually instead of talking about Tembo,Ntaba should explain the missing aids monies!

Ngwazi wrote -

He has outlived and outmanouvered all those pretenders,survived persecution under the UDF and today he is at the helm of the strongest party in Malawi with a real chance of becoming our next President if the wrangles between Muluzi and Mutharika continue,he will definitely be the beneficiary of that fight.



So would this not make Zenasi a champion.......among pretenders ?