Barely a day after meeting UDF national chair Bakili Muluzi in Zomba, President Bingu wa Mutharika on Thursday told his detractors to leave him alone to run the affairs of the country, instead of spending time scheming to bring him down. In a speech many people attending the function at the New State House in Lilongwe felt gave a hint on how his meeting with Muluzi on Wednesday ended, Mutharika said he did not accept to be president of Malawi in search of                         fame. The President was hosting a luncheon for Mzuzu University 2004 graduates. He said he hosted the luncheon because the graduates were the first he conferred degrees upon since he took office. “I would like to appeal to all Malawians and politicians of this country to give me a chance to run this country properly. Do not slow me down with cheap politics. Leave me alone to run this country, and I challenge you that after my first term of five years you will see a difference,” he said. Mutharika, clearly addressing someone else other than the students, said he would not waste his time on cheap politics. He said he detests the Malawi vernacular definition of politics as ndale (tricks) as it gives impetus to the problem. “I have no time to scheme against anybody. I have no                         time to plan to pull down anybody. I do not believe that politics is ndale. The Oxford dictionary defines politics as the science of running of the affairs of state, and a politician as the one vested in the art of running such affairs. “And I am a politician in the correct sense of the word, because I do not know the politics of destruction,” boasted Mutharika. The President said he did not become president of Malawi seeking fame “because I had more fame elsewhere I was”. “In fact I was joking with someone that even if someone wrote a letter then and wrote on the envelope that ‘Bingu wa Mutharika, Africa’ without specifying the address, it was still going to find me. So I do not accept to become President to create a name, but to serve,” said Mutharika.

 He called on the students not to spend time with   politicians who “call themselves wa ndale because what they achieve is just to mess up other people”. “A country can decide to be poor or rich. People make the decision. God could not have created certain sections of the people to be rich and others to be poor. God does not wish us to be poor. These things happen because of circumstances which we create ourselves,” said Mutharika. Mutharika and Muluzi held a three-hour meeting in camera at Zomba State House to mend a growing rift between                         government and the party. Nothing official is known about the outcome of the meeting. Former Mzuzu University students’ union chair Aaron Chirambo, in his speech, asked Mutharika to implement a promise of a bus his predecessor made but never affected it until he left office. Mutharika said that the bus will be given in three weeks.      

   Source: www.nationmalawi.com (Tuesday, 28 December 2004)

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