The worrying thing about the DPP is that you get the distinct feeling that they feigned unity while in the opposition but they don’t like one another too much, and they will tear each other apart now that they are in power.
Petty squabbles about who initiated “aDad ayimanso” are just the beginning and, if inflated egos proceed unchecked, the internecine wars will only get worse.
The tragedy is that instead of rubbing hands together and saying “let’s get on with the important task of rebranding the DPP to make it far more appealing to skeptical Malawians”—some of whom voted for Mutharika, not DPP, per se, because they were disillusioned with the disaster that Chakwera was as a leader—the DPP officials are expending enormous energy fanning factionalism and tearing each other apart in public.
They are repeating the 2020 mistakes of the MCP. The early obsession of the MCP was to diminish SKC and the slogan “2025 president wathu ndi Chakwera” told it all. Drunk with power, MCP played political intrigue but foolishly forgot that it had five years to administer a country and make good many of its promises to the electorate.
I thought we were past such things but it seems our politicians learnt nothing and forget nothing about how—in five short years—the MCP had it all but soon lost it all.
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