Greetings from the Munda wa Chitedze Farm where we relocated from the hustle and bustle of your city. The farm was a hive of activity last Tuesday. It was a time when the villagers around the farm went to vote for the leaders of their choice.
If you can remember, Dear Diary, last week we were trying to explore the possibility of Peter Mutharika losing the election, who would cry? This was against the backdrop of the thought that the competition was between Mutharika and the incumbent Lazarus Chakwera.
As I write, the unofficial results strongly suggest that Peter Mutharika is poised to win the polls. Around the farm, some villagers are already dancing in celebration that it may come out clear that Chakwera is facing the chop.
You see, we are not carried away because just moments ago, Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chair Annabel Mtalimanja was telling us of the 36 councils, only three have completed the manual processes and they were heading for the national tally centre in Lilongwe. We are not carried away because anything can happen. Wasn’t Lazarus, at some point, raised from the dead?
From the unofficial results, it is clear that Mutharika is sweeping the votes from across the country. The tables are being turned and even what the MCP considered its stronghold, the Mutharika tsunami is sweeping clear.
So, as the vote-counting continues, we ask the same question: When Chakwera loses, who will cry?
We did indicate last week that in the likelihood that Mutharika lost the elections it was his cronies who would cry the most. The inner circle that put him in that position forsaking his age would really mourn and groan.
But, if Chakwera loses the elections, he will be the one to cry the most. But, even deeply, those around him will really understand the true meaning behind the soundtrack by Alan Silvestri for the Chuck Norris movie the Delta Force. He will definitely weep on realizing that he brought down that rich orchestral music to the simplistic wadya mtoliro notion that would sound sweet to the ears of the villagers around the farm.
Dear Diary, you see, if Chakwera loses the election those around him would cry, but he would cry the most because the buck stops with him. In the first place, he would cry the most for having listened to the selfish hangers-on who fooled him that his running mate in the Fresh Presidential Elections Saulos Chilima would not matter during the MCP Government.
The ndiolotse n’kakutafune approach Chakwera took on Chilima and the UTM has cost his tenure big time. We are not saying this out of the blues, did we not hear his cronies saying they never agreed that Chilima would take over from Chakwera in this election. Ya Chilima Amalawi adayiyedzeka!
Chakwera and the MCP must realise that Malawians may have resorted to massively put Mutharika back to power not because they love the octogenarian more, but because the Tonse Alliance rule has been nothing but a sham of a government.
While the rest of us at the Munda wa Chitedze Farm were complaining about the hard economic times, we were told to work extra harder. When fuel shortages reached obscene levels, we were fooled about government-to-government deals that happened nowhere but in the heads of the ruling elite.
When we talked about the sky-rocketing fertiliser prices, we were told to blame it on the war in Ukraine! From a promise of K14 000 a bag to over K170 000, the war in Ukraine must be a real Star Wars!
Chakwera will cry the most for taking Malawians for granted, for not listening to their voice of reason. How many deals went awry during his rule and all he did was act non-challant.
In the fight against corruption, can one forget how his leadership treated the then anti-corruption chief Martha Chizuma?
Chakwera will cry the most, because even in the event that there is a run-off, UTM’s Dalitso Kabambe would very unlikely side with him against Mutharika!
At the Munda wa Chitedze Farm, we strongly see a turn in the political tide. Mutharika at the helm, dangling Kabambe at Ministry of Finance.
Chakwera will cry even more because some of the parliamentary positions the MCP may have won are lost to independent candidates. All that because those around him, the ones who hood-winked him made the primaries undemocratic and useless.
Excuse me, Dear Diary, for my dear, dear love! May the best candidate win between Mutharika and Chakwera!
