This time around Banda's presence in the race and the withdrawal of the UTM faction under its Secretary-General Patricia Kaliati have seriously affected President Chakwera who was already in electoral trouble from Chilima's demise...
The UTM has deployed equally heavy ammunition led by the formidable Gender Minister and UTM Secretary-General Patricia Kaliati aided by the late President Bingu wa Mutharika's widow Callista Mutharika and Mwenefumbo...
UTM Secretary-General Patricia Kaliati a veteran political warhorse who was in the cabinets of Bakili Muluzi Bingu wa Mutharika and Peter Mutharika is expecting to be appointed we hear (AC Vol 60 No 5 War of the running mates)...
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UTM Secretary General Patricia Kaliati claimed police threw him out of the country after the Indian refused to implicate Chilima in allegations of election-rigging...
Chilima went for the comedian Michael Usi as his running mate which was a slap in the face for key UTM founding members Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya and the party Secretary General Patricia Kaliati...
Although Chilima is unlikely to muster enough votes to beat the DPP or MCP his movement has attracted a large number of young voters and the presence in his team of the formidable former DPP Information Minister Patricia Kaliati now the UTM's Secretary General could bite into the DPP's vote share (AC Vol 54 No 7 Lilongwe's treason trial)...
Cases were laid against Peter Mutharika (now President) and other former Ministers under Bingu: Jean Kalirani Nicholas Dausi Kondwani Nankhumwa Patricia Kaliati Symon Vuwa Kaunda and Bright Msaka...
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...
The Midnight Six The plotters – Patricia Kaliati Henry Mussa Jean Kalirani Nicholas Dausi Kondwani Nakhumwa and Symon Vuwa Kaunda – gained the conspiratorial name of the Midnight Six because of a press conference held at midnight on 6 April that announced Banda's exclusion from the succession...
Patricia Kaliati effective DPP leader and of the 'Midnight Six' (see Feature); former Information Minister...
' 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...
’ Information Minister Patricia Kaliati denied government responsibility...