Chatinkha orders Chakwera to call for NEC meeting

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) reinstated member Chatinkha Chidzanja Nkhoma Wednesday ordered the Party President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera to call for immediate National Executive (NEC) meeting to iron out differences rocking the party.

Nkhoma said this during a media briefing in the capital Lilongwe.

“There is need for order and stability in the party and we should be united as we are one. There is no point in name calling and dismissing members of the party just because of small disagreements,” she said.

Nkhoma said that MCP was a peaceful party and therefore its leader and president, Dr Lazarus Chakwera should not dismiss its members as it pleased him.

According to a court document, the case against the party’s president Dr Lazarus Chakwera, Potipher Chidaya and MCP was ruled as default as the defendants were not present for hearing and time for doing so expired in terms of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1965.

In its judgment the High Court, among other things, said the MCP Constitution, its decision to expel /dismiss the plaintiffs was invalid and that as such ought not to be implemented.

The court also said the new MCP NEC was unconstitutional and illegal in terms of Article 30 of the party’s constitution and as such “all its resolutions are unconstitutional, illegal and of no effect.”