Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Peter Mutharika has asked Malawians to vote him back into power.
He argues that the citizens have been subjected to “immeasurable poverty and distress” in the last five years.
Mutharika made the appeal during whistle stops at Kasungu boma, at Nkhamenya and at Jenda Trading Centre in Mzimba on his way to Mzuzu where he is expected to hold a rally on Sunday.
Speaking at Jenda, Mutharika said he accepted to contest again as DPP candidate in the election not for personal gain or glory but to boot out the current regime and improve the country’s economy which he said has been messed up.
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He said in 2019, he advised Malawians to vote wisely or else face consequences.
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“You have seen it for yourselves, the struggle you are in; high cost of living, stifled freedoms such as that of speech… you booted me out of the government but I have forgiven you and I am here to rescue you out,” he said.
In Mzuzu, supporters and other onlookers waited patiently for hours at Shoprite Roundabout until it got dark.
At around 19:35, Mutharika arrived in the city but he did not address the people other than just waving them.
This was Mutharika’s first appearance in the Northern Region in 2025 as he makes a second bid for the presidency.
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Since presenting presidential nomination papers to the Malawi Electoral Commission on July 25, Mutharika appeared only once when he launched the party’s campaign activities at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre.
Three weeks later, he re-emerged from his Page House in Mangochi on Thursday, stopping over at Nsipe in Ntcheu and Biwi Triangle in Lilongwe.
In a statement on his Facebook page after arriving in Lilongwe on Thursday, Mutharika said all along, he had let his running mate Jane Ansah, alliance partners Enock Chihana and David Mbewe and the entire party machinery run the campaign as he was “equally busy with the task of setting up a team and measures to deploy once we assume office”.
“Those are now ready and in place,” he said.
He said his previous administration had proven it can lower inflation, uphold rule of law and make necessities such as fuel, forex and passports available to Malawians.
Mutharika was president between 2014 and 2020. In the 2019 elections, the Malawi Electoral Commission declared him winner by the Constitutional Court nullified the presidential elections on account of being married by irregularities. It ordered a fresh one, which was held in June 2020.
President Lazarus Chakwera won the fresh election, leading an alliance comprising nine political parties.
