Opponents of Professor Peter Mutharika presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and brother of the late Bingu wa Mutharika the last elected President are challenging his eligibility to stand on the grounds that he possesses a Green Card which gives him right of residence in the United States...
Peter Mutharika's possible running mates include Henry Chimunthu Banda Jean Kalirani Nick Masebo and Heatherwick Ntaba...
Kachali denied it hotly and sued a radio station owned by DPP President Peter Mutharika's family which repeated the charge claiming K1 bn...
Professor Peter Mutharika of the DPP and the Reverend Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are also faring poorly...
In a move especially controversial in Malawi Mussa also questioned the sexuality of Arthur Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party who is a widower saying he was ‘suspiciously unmarried and unfit for presidency’...
Despite the attacks on him Peter Mutharika has been making political capital from the government’s reluctance to address the homosexuality issue...
The MCP’s presidential hopefuls include a respected cleric Reverend Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi’s largest Pentecostal denomination the Assemblies of God Church; the ex-President of the influential Farmers’ Union of Malawi Felix Jumbe; and retired Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo whom Banda accused of being part of the plot to swear in Peter Mutharika after the death of his brother in April 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 10)...
Lilongwe Chief Magistrate Agnes Chinangwa laid charges of treason against Peter Mutharika the late President's brother and former Foreign Minister; Bright Msaka Chief Secretary and civil service head; his deputy Necton Mhura; Goodall Gondwe former Finance Minister and Africa Director International Monetary Fund; and another eight officials...
All key members of the then governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the plotters led by Peter Mutharika and the fiery Information Minister Patricia Kaliati argued that Banda had made herself ineligible for the constitutional succession because she had been forced out of the governing party...
Treason suspects now on bail Arthur Peter Mutharika brother of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika and acting President of the Democratic Progressive Party...
The DPP blocked any application of Section 65 from 2005 to 2009 when Peter Mutharika the late President's brother and now DPP leader was Justice Minister...
Peter Mutharika is emphasising his Lhomwe ethnicity and openly supporting anti-gay positions on controversial laws on homosexuality currently the other hot topic in Parliament (AC Vol 50 No 23 The rise and rise of ethnic politics)...
The DPP expelled Banda in December 2010 along with the current Vice-President Khumbo Hastings Kachali for refusing to support President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother Peter Mutharika as its presidential candidate...
' Banda has dropped the late President's brother Peter Mutharika as Foreign Affairs Minister and others who plotted to prevent her from taking office such as Information Minister Patricia Kaliati...
Banda 62 founded the PP after the late President Bingu wa Mutharika (see Box Three days in April) had her expelled from the then governing DPP for not endorsing Peter Mutharika as his successor for the 2014 election...
I'll continue the vision Peter Mutharika will not leave you however tough things may be...
Then the Foreign Minister Peter Mutharika along with senior members of the then governing Democratic Progressive Party decided to buy time to subvert Vice-President Joyce Banda's succession by flying the body to South Africa claiming that the dead President was receiving further treatment...
Although he died on 5 April the late President’s cabinet tried keep his death secret and blocked Banda’s accession hoping to sneak Foreign Minister Peter Mutharika into his brother’s post...
Mutharika had sacked Banda from the governing party in early 2011 when she refused to support Peter Mutharika’s nomination as the Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate...
