{"id":68646,"date":"2018-07-25T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68646"},"modified":"2018-07-25T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:51:32","slug":"paramount-chief-chikulamayembe-reverses-peter-mutharikas-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/paramount-chief-chikulamayembe-reverses-peter-mutharikas-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe reverses Peter Mutharika\u2019s endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY SAMUEL KALIMIRA: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paramount <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/chikulamayembe-hails-chilima\/\">Chief Chikulamayembe<\/a> of Rumphi District has reversed his decision to endorse President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chikulamayembe publicly endorsed Mutharika at a rally at Bolero in Rumphi District. The President was in the Northern Region where, among other official tasks, he laid a foundation stone for Rumphi-Nyika Road construction works.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional leader said Mutharika deserved another term so that he could continue working on development programmes he has initiated.<\/p>\n<p>But, speaking in an interview yesterday, the Tumbuka chief said he is not a politician and that, as such, he has no mandate to endorse Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never said people should vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-malawi-politics\/malawi-opposition-calls-for-president-to-resign-over-graft-allegations-idUSKBN1JS1DZ\">Mutharika<\/a>. Am I a politician? I have never been a politician before. Chiefs are not supposed to be politicians. I believe in division of labour,\u201d Chikulamayembe said.<\/p>\n<p>Chikulamayembe added that politicians abuse traditional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live my own life. I repeat, I am not a politician, I am not ready to leave my duties and join politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>President Mutharika held a closed-door meeting with Chikulamayembe for 30 minutes before going to Bolero Ground, where he conducted the rally.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount Chief M\u2019mbelwa of Mzimba and Traditional Authority Timbiri of Nkhata Bay also endorsed Mutharika during his recent visit to the northern region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY SAMUEL KALIMIRA: Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of Rumphi District has reversed his decision to endorse President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Chikulamayembe publicly endorsed Mutharika at a rally at Bolero in Rumphi District. The President was in the Northern Region where, among other official tasks, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68646","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\/68646","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=68646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68649,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68646\/revisions\/68649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}