{"id":65918,"date":"2018-05-28T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65918"},"modified":"2018-05-28T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T07:32:34","slug":"sidik-mia-to-contest-for-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/28\/sidik-mia-to-contest-for-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidik Mia to contest for MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice president, Sidik Mia, has said he will contest for a parliamentary seat in Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency in the next year\u2019s Tripartite Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mia made the announcement yesterday during a political meeting with constituency leaders at Ngabu in Chikwawa District.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incumbent legislator, Loyd Malola of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has failed to develop the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left the constituency hoping that the person who would come would do half of the things I would have done but he [Malola] has not performed,\u201d Mia said.<\/p>\n<p>Mia said during the time he was Cabinet minister and legislator, he achieved a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the Vice-President of this country [Saulosi Chilima] has admitted that this country and the DPP government in particular is abusing taxpayers\u2019 money. We can achieve a lot with our own resources and money,\u201d Mia said.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted for his response, Malola said: \u201cWell, that is his democratic right as a Malawian citizen. I cannot comment further than that. [Let me just] say I welcome him and I will embrace the challenge to compete with him,\u201dMalola said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice president, Sidik Mia, has said he will contest for a parliamentary seat in Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency in the next year\u2019s Tripartite Elections. Mia made the announcement yesterday during a political meeting with constituency leaders at Ngabu in Chikwawa District. He said the incumbent legislator, Loyd Malola of the Democratic Progressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65918","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\/65918","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=65918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65925,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65918\/revisions\/65925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}