Mutharika is banking on support from Atupele Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) which has been supporting his government since 2014...
His eldest son Atupele Muluzi joined Mutharika's cabinet in 2014 serving as Minister of Energy and Mining until 2015 and he brought the United Democratic Front which was founded by his father into unofficial alliance with the DPP (AC Vol 58 No 20 Mutharika's uncertain future)...
DPP insiders had suggested that Mutharika was planning to partner with Health Minister Atupele Muluzi leader of the UDF who joined Mutharika's cabinet after polling 14% of the vote in 2014...
Until Banda re-appeared on the scene the conventional wisdom was that Mutharika would pair with United Democratic Front President and Minister of Lands Atupele Muluzi as his running mate in the next elections...
Pundits in Lilongwe point to a strategic alliance between the President and Bakili Muluzi's son Atupele Muluzi to explain why the case was dropped...
The United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Atupele Muluzi came in at 13...
' Banda has also formed an alliance with UDF candidate Atupele Muluzi who asked Judge Mbendera to resign from the MEC midway through the count...
Atupele Muluzi son of the country's President from 1994 to 2004 Bakili Muluzi leads the United Democratic Front (UDF AC Vol 55 No 7 Bandas Bingu and Goldfinger)...
Atupele Muluzi who is running for president in the coming election faces rumours that his financiers are the same as his father's...
Atupele Muluzi son of former President Bakili Muluzi and leader of the United Democratic Front has floundered since Banda took over from Bingu wa Mutharika on 9 April 2012...