Mtambo claims Ansah’s resignation another DPP scheme to rig Malawi fresh poll
Citizens for Transformation (CFT) – a people power movement – has alleged that the recent resignation of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah is a calculated move by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the pollster to rig the forthcoming fresh presidential election.
CFT Commander In Chief Timothy Mtambo says while his political movement welcomes the long-awaited resignation of Ansah, they are at pains to celebrate because they have been informed that her exit is part of the rigging scheme orchestrated by DPP.
Mtambo makes the allegations in the statement the movement has issued on Tuesday and made available to Nyasa Times .
“Our well-placed sources (whose information we verily believe to be true and correct) have informed us that Dr Jane Ansah’s resignation is part of a rigging scheme orchestrated by the DPP. We will share more details on this rigging scheme as our intelligence team on the ground gather more information, reads the statement in part.
“Let me underscore the following: The resignation of Dr. Jane Ansah was long overdue, and we find no reason to congratulate her for wasting Malawi’s time. On the heels of her resignation, we demand the appointing authority to move with speed on a suitable replacement and for avoidance of doubt, such replacement extends to the rest of MEC Commissioners and secretariat officials who alongside Dr. Ansah were found by both the Courts and Parliament to be “incompetent and lacking seriousness toward their duty. We, at CFT, find such determined character of Electoral Commission officials to be posing a serious danger to the conduct of elections and the institutions of democracy in this country,” Mtambo adds in the letter.
He has since warned President Peter Mutharika and DPP to desist fooling Malawians, challenging that whatever they are planning will not succeed.
“For Peter Mutharika and your DPP cronies, we have got news for you; we know what DPP is planning behind the scenes and we can assure you that you will not succeed. We will clamp down on your agents and thwart any attempts to manipulate the electoral system in your favor,” Mtambo warns.
He further cautions Mutharika against delaying the appointment of MEC Commissioners in order to shift the election’s date, saying that will be acting against Section 4(1) of the Electoral Commissions Act 16 of 2010 which enjoins him to exercise his appointing powers in accordance with the Constitution.
Mtambo states that i Mutharika is indeed a professor of law, he ought to understand that after assuming presidency in 2014, he swore to, at all times, defend and protect the Constitution.
“He also ought to know that he is not bigger than Malawi and the Constitution. The Electoral Commission Act does not request but rather gives an obligation on the President to appoint Commissioners in consultation with the political parties represented in the National Assembly. The same Act further apportions an authority to the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament to determine the terms and conditions of these Commissioners. We further draw Peter Mutharika’s attention to section 5 of the Constitution which provides that any decision that is inconsistent with the Constitution shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid,” says the former chairperson of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC).
Mtambo, who also served as the executive director of the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) before going into active politics, argues that the President has no legal backing to unilaterally or unreasonably withhold an appointment, which has been duly recommended by the Judicial Service Commission (in the case of appointment of MEC Chair) and political Parties and the Public Appointments Committee (in the case of Commissioners).
He says doing so will be plunging our nation into a serious constitutional crisis which no Malawian is prepared to witness in contemporary democracy.
“We remind Peter Mutharika that Malawi is a God-fearing nation. Malawians have had enough of Mutharika’s attempts to frustrate and circumvent our democracy. Mr. Caretaker President, it is a tall order to think that you can delay the Court sanctioned fresh elections by abusing your powers. Put concisely, the right of all Malawians to have a functioning and credible MEC within a reasonable time is guaranteed and protected under the Constitution. As CFT, we will not spare any efforts and resources, be they litigation or otherwise to interdict any unreasonable delays by your office to appoint the Commissioners,” Mtambo stresses.
Meanwhile, CFT has reiterate its demand to have MEC elections management system audited by independent information technology (IT) specialists in presence of representatives from all political parties that will contest, together with representatives from the civil society, religious communities and the private sector.
The movement has further asked development partners like the United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK) and Germany, among others, to intervene in the cleaning up of the voter’s roll for fair and credible elections.
Mtambo emphasizes that if the donors and development partners are serious about ensuring credible and fair elections as the purport to profess, they must demonstrate what they preach by joining the CFT in calling for the audit of the electoral system and voter’s roll.
“Let me conclude by highlighting that it is in our considered view, as CFT, that the appointing authority should no longer hold the country at ransom by either being elusive or continuing with dilly-dallying tactics on these urgent matters of national interest. I must emphasize: We, at CFT, strongly hold that the current crop of Commissioners has no legal, technical or moral basis to handle fresh elections following their gross mismanagement of May 19, 2019 Presidential election. The appointment of new EC leadership in the affected capacities must happen without any delay,” he ends his statement.
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By the way do you know that is a gay activists. The agreeement between him and the alliance is that they will introduce gayism and lesbianism
The opposition is childish. It’s just a body of crying babies. Shame. Mukuwona ngati mukaluza a khothi akumvera chisoni. Kungokhala anthu olira NDI odandaula basi. Mukula liti?
A kick of the dying horse it’s dangerous, but then I know one day these people who have brought suffering to the people of Malawi will one day stand trial in the Courts of law, watch the space.
The caretaker president is an accident which has never happened before to Malawi. We need someone more energetic, at 80 plus, its a disaster to the country. My Grandpa is 82 as well, and enjoying his days with grandchildren. Ma cadets enanu mwina u dont have agogo, let me tell you what happens kwa azigogo akafika 8o years plus, zinthu siziyenda, amabwerela ku umwana. Biology yao imasintha, kaya atakhala akudya bwino chotani. So agogowa kuti atliamulirenso another 5years, uuuuuuu, ndikusiyilanso kamwana ka mbava aka, Malawi siizatukukanso.
Agogo ako okha amenewo ndamene amapanga zimenezoo
The basket mouth mtambo talking trash again. Mtambo and MCP are the reason Tonse alliance will lose. There is no semblance of quality or humanity in them. And combined with chilima’s phuma, this UTMCP alliance is the poorest package Malawi has ever had. Thank you God for exposing dyera and nkhanza za anthu awa .
Long live APM.
Mtambo chigawenga chokupha anthu….. mfiti weni weni anganene chiani and which donor partner can listen to this thug. wabera azungu ndalama zao and you think this time they will listen to you nganya iwe?
iwetu ukunama….. look at your uniform as if its a security company……kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
koma pa Malawi ayi ndithu
Confused people of the TONSE Crocodile Alliance. Smoking weed everyday.
PARAPAIN can help you
My advice to DPP: You have the capacity to win any election hands down like you did in 2009 under late Bingu. All you have to do is change your candidate, replacing agogo with one of the younger, sensible, organized men and women in the DPP. Don’t ask me who because you have plenty of such people. My vote will remain with Tonse Alliance unless and until you do that. Musadzati sitinakuuzeni.
Mtambo usatinyansepo apa wamva leave Jane Ansah alone. Umapita mumisewu kuti atule pansi udindo and she stood saying she wont until the higher court upholds the lower court’s decision and today she has honored her promise chimene ukufuna pa Jane ndi chiyani? Iwe umasuta chamba kwambiri wamva! Ndipo watikwana kwambiri how will somebody outside kubera mavote and let alone no court said the elections were rigged. Mayi Ansah pakufunika kuti yense amene aziti munabera mukamusumire ku court bcoz courts dd not find you wrong on this including dpp. Wandinyansa kwambiri iwe Mtambo ndikuuze chifukwa ukuchita ndi ufiti why kumutsatatsata munthu like that anakulakwira chiyani mbuli ya munthu kwabasi iweyo iyaaa!
Mtambo doesn’t know what he wants now. He is a confused dude. Wayamba kuona nyekhwe tsopano. Siunati. Uthawatu m’dziko lino come after 23rd June 2020 ndithuuu.
Watsoka ndiiwe kuti unabadwira ku Malawi. Ukanabadwira ku Beira Mozambique kapena Somalia. Bwanjji upite ujabawire ku Sudan ndiye uzabwerenso chusankho chikatha,chakwera akazabwekeranso ku bench ya opposition.
Malawi tinachitika tsoka kukhala ndi Mutharika ngati president wadziko lino. Ine ndimakaika kwambiri ngati APM ndi Professor wa za malamulo.
Zonsezi ndi a Muluzi. He brought the elder Mutharika into the UDF and gave him the presidency. Since then, Malawi has never been the same.
Muluzi is the real culprit
Zikaika, nzako akudya chips, sausages etc zaboma
Mtambo has a point it’s a strategy move by Dpp kuti abelenso ma vote akudziwa chomwe apanga
This guy is the Biggest fool Malawi has to deal with, you and fellow thugs destroyed Mwi through Demos, now she is done exact what you wanted. Amalawi sizitsilu they who you are and what u stand for.
I think you are the biggest fool not Mtambo in Malawi for not seeing sense in what Mtambo is saying. I know you are a cadet that’s why you are there to support any evil plan by DPP.
so according to u, J Ansah is wrong for doing what Mtambo has bn demostrating for? is that your Best thought?
Munthalika is a fake professor and failed person he even failed as minister.There are young leaders in DPP who can lead. You are harming the country.Munthalika is very slow to act, and even Voting for him is waste of time.There will be still political parties in future.Young generations should lead now.He is now thinking like a baby.Frm those who are suffering from his rule, keeping him as president is a dangerous move.He should retire now.Such people akagwa kudzuka kumavuta. DPP cadets and leaders stop forcing this guy to continue leading Malawians to no where.Rethink guys in DPP. Right now he doesn’t know what is the constitution is all about.
Mutharika waphunzitsa anthu eni eni ndiye kaya ena mukuti he is fake professor, izo nzanunso mwamva.
Just go back to school my dear
Even ur English can tell that u know nothing…..
A Malawi, chitsilutu si Mtamboyu koma Boma pomuweta. Mtambo watsiluka ngati Joyce Banda. These people will say a thing today and another tomorrow. Now Chakwera says he has big fish in them. And you will hear the media praising them without even questioning their wisdom. Dog.
So you agree kuti boma tiri naloli ndi lautsilu? Nchifukwa chaketu tikufuna lichoke palowepo anyamata ochenjera ali ku Tonse Alliance’wa.
Ayao anzeru anatsalako ati?😂😂😂
I think Malawi he has a lot of sick people only person who can be Peter side he or she must go to the hospital how can you back someone who has 80 yrs old you can support anyone but not Peter unless you don’t want to work mtambo he is hero
Chizungu? Chizungulire?
These people seems not to know what they want.Weed smoking is not good at all.
I havent even read the contents of this article apart from the title. I think CFT is a group full of people with dead and riotten heads. U r the same people who have been fighting tooth and nail to make sure Ansah resigns and HRDC had even organised a demonstration tomorrow to force her resign. What happens, she decides to resign and now u r bringing very stupid statements about the ploy of DPP to rig the elections. What a fuss!! CFT, it looks you have nothing to offer just shut up your closets. To the interest of those who love genuine approach to issues, plse mutigookere, just sit down and keep quiet. This is the problem with you CFT and your bedfellows, MCP, you jump into doing things without looking ahead. May be u r now fighting between yrselves, CFT and HRDC, menyanani tione!
It’s neither politics nor hate, but confusion.
Mr Mtambo, Malawi is a God fearing nation….Are you a God fearing politician? After all the pain you had caused Malawians, burning shops, burning people’s homes, undressing a female police officer, killing officer Imedi, burning Grace Obama’s home and vehicles, burning government offices, invading capital hill and chasing civil servants from their offices, Urinating and defeating in goverment offices at Capital Hill, burning police vehicles and houses, smashing shops in LL…. stealing from Bata shops and Movessa shop, robbery in Chipiku shops.. blocking roads especially LL Kasiya Santhe Road, blocking presidential convoy in area 36 LL….have you already repented on these tragedies? You had been fooling Malawians that you are the human rights defender, ife isadziwa kuti you were fostering your political ambitions. Now you are busy campaigning for your brothers whom you have destroyed Malawi with.. Welcome to politics my friend. This is a field where Boys and separated from Men. Enjoy the political heat. Meet you on the other side after the FPE.
WHEN IS THIS RABID DOG STOP SPEAKING. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS MANIAC AND ITS HIGH TIME HE WAS SENT TO HIS MAKER. HE THINKS HE KNOWS TOO WELL AND THAT MALAWIANS WANT TO LISTEN FROM HIM. ITS HIGH TIME KUNCHEDWA TOOK HIM TO THE BUSH WHERE HE BELONGS
Osaopa,sadzabelaso
WELL SPOKEN MTAMBO
this man is just mad. the day he was saying Ansah out today he is say she should not have resigned. you are just an idiot. how do you keep on attacking personalities instead of talking constructively. a leader who adress issues with bitterness without substance is better called idiot
This guy is stupid. In what capacity is he dictating the government? Is it because of his movement which is built on greed and opportunistic? It’s too much for all of the population in this country to be hearing one stupid Timothy Chizereze chakufikapo Mtambo. This cheat must be silenced . One thing he doesn’t know though is that he is not a matured politician. Whatever and whoever wins , will not take home anywhere near their house. Watch and mark my words
Zalowa misala..aaaa
I we Mtambo wayamba ma speech womakonzekela kuzachita maphokoso mukazaluza?
Your hatred for mutharika will kill you
Polani moto malawians are not stupid to believe every word you utter. Mukufuna chani kweni kweni. DPP/UDF will win
Mbuzi ya munthu waziwa liti kut Malawi ndi Dziko loopa Mulungu…………uziona sudati
Mtambo with respect to your former position as leader of CHRR but i find record of your organisation during you term of office as abhorrent. Protection of Human Rights is fundamental. It promotes civil liberty of every citizen, the right to freedom of PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY , FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION including freedom to demonstrate.
However, all these rights are not absolute and maybe restricted by Law. Where a state seeks to regulate assemblies which are not peaceful or unlikely to be peaceful – no violation of those rights occurs.
Your record has demonstrated that at no point did you condemn or disassociate with groups of people who vandalized, intimated property/ people in the name of demonstration.
Now with that record you have:
1.Been allowed to join Tonse Alliance ( Are you an asset or Liability to that Alliance)
2. I would interpret this as spitting venom: What do you mean that YOU WILL CLAMP DOWN ON DPP AGENTS?
3. You need to go to Mangochi and apologize for the brutal murder of a Police Officer at Msundwe
4. You refer to section 5 where you have stated that any decision which is inconsistent with constitution should to the extent of that inconsistency be invalid. I agree with you on condition you concur with me that the rejected bills by Mutharica violated the constitution hence they are invalid too.
5. You should call out the action of The Legal Affairs Committee setting the date of the election as if this committee is a Parliament.
6.What do you mean that you are Chief in Commander of the Youth?
7. Is this role embedded in the constitution.
8. Are you going to take responsibility of all acts of the youth detrimental or positive?
9. Tell the voters what you will do for the voters but do not use threats .
10. Malawians have not forgotten how Malawi Young Pioneer brutally silenced Malawians,
11. Is this an indication of your philosophy to slide back to those old days.
12. The youth of today are mature enough and they will judge your acts and motive.
13. From my experience every new job , you need time to learn and master it. The new commission they need to be given time to learn how the Electoral Commission operates. They need induction and avoid overloading them with work otherwise they will be forced to make significant mistakes/errors due to exhaustion
Uli pa ntchito aise..You are the worst thing to come of our district Chitipa
Akutichitsa Manyazi bwanji??? complete worst thing produced from the North.
Come on Guys, U need to be serious. At least for once. Don’t be drama Queens. U have bn baying for Ansah’s blood for a long time. She finally resigns,and u now coming up with a different excuse?
wabokola nyongo Mtambo
Easy.
Words of command so you think the whole malawi should follow your wish? Who are you at all? So you have already started crying atibela atibela why?. Chilichonse mkufuna aziyendera zomwe mkufuna za manyi zomwe ukupanga iwe mtambo. Anzako analiko koma anapita monga Mr chakufwa simbi ya moto chihana osati iwe galu yachabechabe
You wanted Jane Ansah to resign, she did on her own terms. You want Muntharika to appoint new Mec he said he will. What’s the fuss about??? Kumangolubwa lubwa. we haven’t even set the date for new polls you are already talking about rigging? What nonsense is this? Very childish. This time around things will be very different, Malawi is watching. Burundi,Chitsilu iwe watitayitsa nthawi yokwana.
Please understand that Jane didn’t resign on her own but out of court position. don’t be a fool tiyeni tionana paground osati zanu izo zomangotukwana zopanda nzeru. It’s time we realise the values of democracy and debate maturely. I see sense in Mambos assertion
You are confusing us. Aren’t you the one who was fighting for this lady to resign. What else do you need. You planed for demo’s on 28th may to force her out. So whst?????????,,,You fool nena Zina tatopa nawe.
If Malawi had more people of Timothy Mtambo’s caliber, our country, Malawi, would have been different. Long live Mtambo and CFT!
If we have the likes of Mtambo, our country would have been destroyed. The attitude of Mtambo is what destroyed AFORD.
You guys do not have time to think things through. That’s why you will always whine and groan all the time because your friend talks less but in terms electioneering he is way better than any of you. You guys you talk too much but with very poor action. He will beat you again. Mark my words.
He ha never won any election remember apart from kuba. Panotu kuno bwera an Independent MEC Chairperson who also knew about roofing tricks of DPP. Tiyeni nazoni ndale zamtunfu wanuzo. Pano ndi vote that will count osati kuba
Empty tins
Musatinyase mwanva!!!!! Uyu wasiya ntchito mlekeni tiyeni za zisankho pano. Ife nde mwatibowa