Mutharika may seek an alliance with a new candidate from the North such as ex-President Joyce Banda's former vice-president the powerful playmaker Khumbo Kachali or emerging politicians from the region...
Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) claimed the elections were rigged but most Malawians celebrated the win by the Tonse Alliance of Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM) ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) her former deputy Khumbo Kachali's Freedom Party and five smaller parties...
Former Vice-President Khumbo Kachali is said not be seeking a cabinet appointment while those who are eyeing a senior job include Tonse Alliance member-party leaders such as Alliance for Democracy President Enock Chihana who was in Joyce Banda's cabinet billionaire businessman and People's Progressive Movement leader Mark Katsonga Phiri former presidential candidate for Umodzi Party John Chisi and Peoples Transformation Party (Petra) president Kamuzu Chibambo...
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Ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party which backed Chakwera at the last election and Banda's former deputy Khumbo Kachali's Freedom Party would each take 10% of the jobs if they win these sources say...
Also losing their seats were Aford President Enock Chihana and Khumbo Kachali Banda's deputy when she was head of state...
For his part Chakwera who has the wealthy businessman Sidik Mia on his side will also gain from his electoral alliance with Banda and Khumbo Kachali who have a lot of pull in the northern region...
She has also met her former Vice-President Khumbo Kachali and a team from the MCP (AC Vol 54 No 4 Banda takes on her deputy)...
They are already talking to people like former Vice-President Khumbo Kachali to get him to rejoin the party...
An opposition alliance task force has been formed and is targeting Khumbo Kachali Banda's Vice-President who has formed his own Freedom Party and is exploring the possibility of pairing up with the current Vice-President Saulos Chilima should Mutharika dump him from the ticket...
In the past 18 months she has lost at least six key senior party officials including former national Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha Sidik Mia and most damagingly Khumbo Kachali (AC Vol 54 No 4 Banda takes on her deputy)...
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...