Mwenifumbo quits UTM Party
Politician Frank Tumpale Mwenifumbo has resigned from UTM Party where he served as the party’s publicity secretary.
In a letter to UTM Party secretary general Patricia Kaliati dated November 22 2022, he said he tendered his resignation to the party’s president Saulos Chilima, who is also the country’s Vice-President, on October 13.
He said he delayed to announce the decision on “moral and ethical” considerations due to the illness of the Vice-President’s spouse, Mary
Reads Mwenifumbo’s letter to Kaliati: “I explained to the president my reasons for my resignation and he graciously accepted it. In my own consideration I delayed to announce the resignation on ethical and moral reasons.”
Mwenifumbo, a former parliamentarian for Karonga Central, said he will now concentrate on his business.
“I intend to live a private life and concentrate on my business and farming at the village. I also do not, at the moment, intend to join any political party or participate in any political activity,” adds the letter.
Last evening, Mwenifumbo confirmed resigning from UTM Party, but could not be drawn to provide further details.
Kaliati did not pick up the phone on several occasions last evening, but someone later answered that she was attending a meeting.
But on the resignation letter, Kaliati wrote: “Hon Mwenifumbo, noted. May God bless over the support you provided to the party. We will miss you.”
In the court-nullified 2019 presidential election, Mwenifumbo was running mate to United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Atupele Muluzi.
Atupele in May this year also resigned as president of UDF, stating that he was stepping back from politics to transition into a Pan-African business executive.
