Malawi: Mutharika Warns Against 'Rigging' in Malawi Watershed Elections - 'I Am Watching You'

21 January 2019

President Peter Mutharika is facing perhaps his strongest challenge to date from vice-president Saulos Chilima and his UTM Party, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the People's Party (PP) of former President Joyce Banda and now he has expressed fears of rigging.

Addressing a whistle-stop meeting in Blantyre on Sunday for his ruling Democratic Progress Party (DPP), Mutharika claimed that he was aware of an opposition party's scheme to rig the elections.

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