{"id":21513,"date":"2022-04-27T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally"},"modified":"2022-04-27T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T19:55:21","slug":"dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally","title":{"rendered":"DPP disowns Kondwani Nankhumwa rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it does not recognise a rally that the party\u2019s Southern Region vice president Kondwani Nankhumwa has organised this coming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Posters making rounds on social media indicate that DPP vice president for the Central Region Zelia Chakale will hold a rally at Mgona Ground on Saturday before Nankhumwa and general secretary Grezelder Jeffrey conduct theirs at the same venue the following day. DPP national organising secretary Chimwemwe Chipungu disowned the Sunday meeting, saying organisers did not go through his office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are only aware of Saturday\u2019s rally which the party has organised through the National Governing Council in coordination with the office of the National Organising [Committee leader]. We are not aware of another meeting on Sunday; so, we cannot comment on it,\u201d Chipungu said.<\/p>\n<p>However, DPP secretary-general Jeffrey described Saturday\u2019s rally as a curtain-raiser of theirs. \u201cI am the party\u2019s chief executive officer and, together with our vice president for the Southern Region, have organised this rally. So, if someone says they do not recognise it, what do they mean?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday ndi kalambulabwalo chabe kudikira wa munthu wamkulu Sunday [Saturday\u2019s rally is a curtain-raiser for Sunday\u2019s rally],\u201d she said. The development cements widening divisions that have lately rocked the former governing party over positions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it does not recognise a rally that the party\u2019s Southern Region vice president Kondwani Nankhumwa has organised this coming Sunday. Posters making rounds on social media indicate that DPP vice president for the Central Region Zelia Chakale will hold a rally at Mgona Ground on Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":21512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,8,10],"tags":[233,371,432,3608,309,234],"class_list":["post-21513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-dpp","tag-grezelder-jeffrey-2","tag-kondwani-nankhumwa","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DPP disowns Kondwani Nankhumwa rally - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it does not recognise a rally that the party\u2019s Southern Region vice presiden ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPP disowns Kondwani Nankhumwa rally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it does not recognise a rally that the party\u2019s Southern Region vice presiden ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-27T19:32:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-27T19:55:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/04\/img-62699f86e67a3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"846\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"545\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DPP disowns Kondwani Nankhumwa rally\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-27T19:32:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-27T19:55:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/04\/img-62699f86e67a3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"dpp\",\"Grezelder Jeffrey\",\"Kondwani Nankhumwa\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-disowns-kondwani-nankhumwa-rally\",\"name\":\"DPP disowns Kondwani Nankhumwa rally - 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