Is Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika the right candidate for DPP?

The road to September, 2025 General Election is getting shorter by day and election fever is getting high as political parties are busy getting prepared to face the nation for the Presidential, Parliamentary and local government elections.

Scientific research findings are being released, political analysts predicting the out come of the elections and making suggestions for the winning formulas while both false and genuine prophets are prophesying about who will carry the day on 16^th September, 2025.

There are several factors why Malawians would want Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika back to power in the September 2025 Presidential election and not the incumbent President Dr Lazaras Chakwera.

His Excellency the Former President of the Republic of Malawi and the DPP President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika ruled Malawi for 6 years (2014 -2020) registering remarkable development projects across the country.

This is contrary to the 5 year rule of Dr Lazaras Chakwera’s which has been marred by corruption, high cost of living, gross in competences in leadership skills, hunger, shortage of fuel, shortage of forex, high unemployment rate, high rates of interests, infringement of people’s rights, political arrests, politically sponsored violence among others.

According to a DPP Profile of Development Projects Achieved during Professor Peter Mutharika’s First Term of Administration, Titled APM Delivers – Delivering the Promise; Malawi registered a staggering 3,621 development projects across the country within a period of 6 years of his rule.

The 2014 DPP manifesto and the promises contained therein won the hearts of many Malawians such that on 19/20 May 2014, Malawian overwhelmingly ushered back in power the DPP with a five-year mandate to lead the country.

In keeping with the party vision laid out by the founder His Excellency Professor Bingu wa Mutharika and as captured in the manifesto, the DPP continued people-centered development approaches, long term infrastructure developments, people-driven economic paradigms, and a culture of respect for human rights and human dignity for all.

Since 2014 when DPP ascended to power again, Malawi has seen better roads, better schools and better hospitals. Malawi also successfully implemented policy reforms in the public and private sectors. In this article, Khulubvi Post would like to highlight several development projects that had been initiated by the DPP-led government under President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika from 2014 to 2020.

The 3,621 development projects were implemented across the country with an average of one technical college constructed for each of the 28 districts.

The following are some of the notable development projects registered within this period.

In Agriculture, Water Development and Climate Change Management – 869 projects
Education and Skills Development – 797 Projects
Energy, Industry and Tourism Development – 119 Projects
Environmental Sustainability – 347 projects
Gender, Youth Development, Persons with Disability and Social Welfare – 109 projects.
Health and Population Management – 327 projects
Human Settlement and Physical Planning 162 – Projects
Peace and Security – 51 Projects
Transport and ICT Infrastructure -840 Projects

During this same period under the Mutharika administration, Malawi enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity and there were no political arrests, no fuel shortages, no forex shortages, no hunger, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Association, Freedom to demonstrate, there were efforts to eradicate Corruption and the Director of the Anti Corruption Bureau was never arrested or harassed.

On the contrary, the Malawi congress Party government under President Chakwera has destroyed everything within 5 years (2020-2025) after attaining power through Judicial Coup under the pretext of a stolen election. Malawians are now counting down to 16^th September, 2025 when they will again be given another opportunity to elect their leaders who will be entrusted to manage the economy of Malawi for the next five years.

All signs are pointing to Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika who is poised to win in the September, 2025 General Elections due to his track record of development, good governance, embracing rule of law and many other factors. Malawians everywhere are suffering regardless of their status in society.

From the religious community to the grave yard diggers, people are expressing their dissatisfaction and disapproval of the current MCP regime and no amount of propaganda will change the mind of noble Malawian who has witnessed the worst government since Malawi attained independence in 1964. People will exercise their right to choose whether to continue suffering or move forward with peace and prosperity.

Opinion by Steven Maseya

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