By Vincent Gunde
Former President of the Republic of Malawi who is also DPP leader Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, has dismissed claims which are being made by other opposition leaders that he will leave office after one month from his election into office.
There have been claims other opposition leaders are making that Professor Mutharika will leave the presidency to his running mate Justice Dr. Jane Ansah SC and he is just taking Malawians as a ladder to advance politics of Justice Dr. Jane Ansah SC.
Mutharika said after he was ousted from government in June, 2020 he has been working day and night to develop his party assuring Malawians that he has no such plans of giving the presidency to someone and he will finish his 5 year’s term of office.
Speaking at a jam packed Chilimampunga ground in Mtandire location- Lilongwe on Saturday at the launch of the 2025 DPP manifesto, Professor Mutharika said in 2019 he promised Malawians that he would turn Malawi into Singapore but his plans were cut short following his ousted from government.
Professor Mutharika assured Malawians that at the end of his 5 year’s term of office, he will make sure that his plans of making Malawi as Singapore are fulfilled and it is up to Malawian themselves to ask him to stand for another 5 years.
He said the DPP-AFORD Alliance is coming not only to change the country but to liberate Malawians to be in total freedom from slavery of intimidations, hackings and arrests if one has posted on the internet something basing on free speech.
The DPP leader said the late President Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda preached of one unity, one Malawi and one nation saying as Malawians they need love with one another observing that Malawi is one, there is no any other country apart from Malawi they have.
“Let’s work together to develop Malawi, we need Malawi of love and of one unity, we have no country apart from Malawi,” said Mutharika.
On the DPP manifesto, Professor Mutharika urged Malawians to read the 90-page manifesto in English, Chichewa and Tumbuka describing it as “People Centred Manifesto” saying power will be for the people to decide on their development projects not Capital Hill deciding for them.
Professor Mutharika said he accepted to stand because Malawians are in pain and sufferings expressing hope that the support Malawians are giving him will continue to vote for him and the DPP on the 16th September, 2025 elections for an outright 70 percent win with no second re-run.
He appealed to Malawians that are for change to join hands to the 16th September, and after the 16th September, 2025 elections to build a new Malawi encouraging people to go door-to-door campaigning telling one another what the DPP is bringing to the country.
