{"id":54918,"date":"2017-10-11T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54918"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:09:45","slug":"peoples-party-fires-uladi-mussa-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/peoples-party-fires-uladi-mussa-as-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Party fires Uladi Mussa as vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/strong>eople\u2019s Party (PP) has fired Uladi Mussa from the position of vice president for the Central Region.<\/p>\n

PP spokesperson, Noah Chimpeni, Tuesday confirmed the development and said this follows the recommendation that a disciplinary committee made to the party\u2019s National Executive Committee (Nec).<\/p>\n

Mussa\u2019s dismissal follows his declaration that he would contest as the party\u2019s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

Prior to the dismissal, he was on suspension.<\/p>\n

Chimpeni said, after Mussa\u2019s suspension, a disciplinary committee was formed but Mussa never showed up when he was summoned for hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [disciplinary committee] made their recommendation to Nec and, a few days ago, it [Nec] met and confirmed the decision that was made by the disciplinary committee. One of the recommendations is to remove him as acting president and vice-president for the Central Region,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Chimpeni further said Mussa will remain a member of the party and he is free to contest for any position at the party\u2019s convention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you recall, he [Mussa] has never won any position at our convention [and he only] became vice-president after Cassim Chilumpha resigned from the party. As of now, he is an ordinary member until we have a convention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mussa was not immediately available for comment but, a few weeks ago, he sought an injunction at the High Court in Lilongwe. In his application, he wanted to restrain the party from firing him from all his positions, pending a judicial review.<\/p>\n

However, Judge Ruth Chinangwa dismissed his application.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Member of Parliament for Mzimba South, Makwenda Chunga, has resigned as the party\u2019s provincial chairperson for the north.<\/p>\n

According to Makwenda, he would like to concentrate on the affairs of his constituency as part of preparations for the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to concentrate on the ground as member of Parliament of that constituency I need to work hard on the ground. Being regional chairperson is having a huge responsibility because you have to concentrate on Mzimba and other districts. I remain a member of the party.<\/p>\n

He has ruled out suggestions that the decision follows the leadership conflicts that have rocked the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople may say so but I must tell you I love Joyce Banda. She has done a lot for me. But I must say it is normal for people to resign. I want to concentrate on my constituency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But Chimpeni has expressed ignorance on the matter<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not aware of the resignation. However, I know that there were issues with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People\u2019s Party (PP) has fired Uladi Mussa from the position of vice president for the Central Region. PP spokesperson, Noah Chimpeni, Tuesday confirmed the development and said this follows the recommendation that a disciplinary committee made to the party\u2019s National Executive Committee (Nec). Mussa\u2019s dismissal follows his declaration that he would contest as the party\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54919,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54918\/revisions\/54919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}