The electorate in the meantime has decided that President Peter Mutharika is no more deserving of their support than his deeply unpopular predecessor Joyce Banda or her own forerunner Bingu wa Mutharika the incumbent's late brother...
This makes him more dependent on alliances with largely discredited figures familiar when his brother Bingu wa Mutharika who died suddenly in 2012 was in office (AC Vol 53 No 8 How Mutharika went wrong)...
A leak of the latest audit names serving cabinet ministers for participating in contract inflation and procurement fraud during the late President Bingu wa Mutharika's time in office...
After earning praise as a doughty defender of human rights throughout the 1990s Kasambara's course changed when he became the late President Bingu wa Mutharika's Attorney General in 2004...
disappeared in 2013 when Banda was President but the earlier fraud could implicate the current government many of whose members including President Peter Mutharika held office under his late brother President Bingu wa Mutharika...
The late President Bingu wa Mutharika Peter's brother secretly bought the Dassault Falcon 900EX for $13 mn...
Much speculation has surrounded the role of ex-President Banda and her Former deputy Khumbo Kachali along with rumours that the current administration does not dare to implicate them in case they reveal what they know about DPP theft from government coffers during the rule of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika...
After elections most Presidents – including Mutharika's late brother Bingu wa Mutharika who died in office in 2012 – hold rallies across the country dispensing political patronage and consolidating their support...
President Banda sold the jet which Bingu wa Mutharika bought in secret to great acclaim but it later emerged that the funds went to a South African company in payment for arms bound for the Malawi Defence Force contingent with the United Nations in Congo-Kinshasa (AC Vol 55 No 3 Scandals to dominate polls)...
With such vast scope for anti-government alliances and tactical combinations it will be difficult for Peter Mutharika to pursue the outright ethnically-based policies and appointments of his late brother Bingu wa Mutharika who favoured his Lhomwe group...
The late President Bingu wa Mutharika had dismissed her from his government for refusing to support his plan to install his brother Peter as the next DPP presidential candidate although he could not sack her as Vice-President...
Muluzi is the son of former President Bakili Muluzi who had a love-hate relationship with the late Bingu wa Mutharika...
This is her first electoral test since succeeding to the presidency following the Byzantine intrigue over the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in April 2012 (AC Vol 54 No 7 Lilongwe's treason trial)...