{"id":69151,"date":"2018-09-06T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69151"},"modified":"2018-09-06T18:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:48:28","slug":"veteran-njobvuyalema-falls-in-mcp-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/veteran-njobvuyalema-falls-in-mcp-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Njobvuyalema falls in MCP primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Audrey Kapalamula<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Njobvuyalema<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[dropcap]L[\/dropcap]ilongwe Mapuyu South lawmaker, Joseph Njobvuyalema, yesterday became the first long-serving legislator to lose in the ongoing Malawi Congress Party primary elections.<\/p>\n

Njobvuyalema lost to youth activist Edward Chileka-Banda in primary elections held at Kang\u2019onga Primary School in the constituency.<\/p>\n

Chileka Banda got 470 votes against Njobvuyalema\u2019s 320.<\/p>\n

A third contestant, Stella Kathumba, got 50 votes to fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n

During the elections, two incumbent councillors also stumbled.\u00a0 In Kamazi Ward, Dominic Banda defeated Edson Kalonga while, in Kachawa Ward, Lucky Nkasauka triumphed over Gibson Macheso.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate reaction from Njobvuyalema.<\/p>\n

However, Chileka-Banda said he was excited and ready to serve constituents once elected in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would best describe it [victory] as crazy because this [triumphing] is something many people did not expect considering that the incumbent is a very experienced politician. So the feeling is so good and, at the same time, it\u2019s a lesson to young people,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MCP director of elections, Elias Chakwera, yesterday said he was yet to receive a report detailing results of the primaries.<\/p>\n

Chakwera said, despite facing hitches in some areas, the party has registered progress in areas it is holding primaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a common understanding reached prior to primaries since we opened up to all parties involved. Because of that, we expect to have fewer cases of misunderstandings and violence although you cannot rule that out,\u201d he said<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chakwera said the party has postponed elections in three constituencies\u2014Dowa Ngala, Lilongwe Msinja South and Dedza West \u2014as they want to clear misunderstandings.<\/p>\n

MCP is holding primary elections in the Central Region, where Malawi Electoral Commission\u2019s voter registration exercise was completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  By Audrey Kapalamula [dropcap]L[\/dropcap]ilongwe Mapuyu South lawmaker, Joseph Njobvuyalema, yesterday became the first long-serving legislator to lose in the ongoing Malawi Congress Party primary elections. Njobvuyalema lost to youth activist Edward Chileka-Banda in primary elections held at Kang\u2019onga Primary School in the constituency. Chileka Banda got 470 votes against Njobvuyalema\u2019s 320. A third contestant, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69151","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=69151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69154,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69151\/revisions\/69154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}