{"id":45057,"date":"2023-07-05T11:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/zikhale-ngoma-trashes-eiu-report-says-chakwera-will-scoop-71-in-2025"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:23:35","slug":"zikhale-ngoma-trashes-eiu-report-says-chakwera-will-scoop-71-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/zikhale-ngoma-trashes-eiu-report-says-chakwera-will-scoop-71-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Zikhale Ng\u2019oma trashes EIU report, says Chakwera will scoop 71% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Director of Research, Ken Zikhale Ng\u2019oma, has projected that President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera will scoop 71 percent of the total votes to be cast in 2025, trashing a forecast by a United Kingdom (UK)-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).<\/p>\n

In its latest report, EIU predicted that Chakwera would face a tough ride to retain his seat because of the food and fuel shortages, low foreign exchange reserves, corruption and unemployment.<\/p>\n

It adds that the Malawi leader will continue to lead a minority government, with limited support from other members of the governing Tonse Alliance [such as the UTM Party of Vice-President Saulos Chilima and the People\u2019s Party of former president Joyce Banda], owing to infighting about succession issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoint parliamentary and presidential elections are due in September 2025. At the next polls, Mr. Chakwera and the MCP face probable defeat, as the Tonse Alliance is disintegrating, owing to internal strife,\u201d reads the report in part.<\/p>\n

But Zikhale Ng\u2019oma has trashed the report, challenging that Chakwera will win the polls with landslide.<\/p>\n

The Homeland Security minister made the sentiments during the Hot Current programme beamed live on Times Television on Sunday, June 2 2023.<\/p>\n

He told programme hosts Brian Banda and Jonah Pankuku that the economic problems EIU is citing in its report are a result of the rot and mis-reporting the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis country was rotten under the DPP. I wonder why you, journalists, are not telling Malawians that our economy is struggling because of that rot, which the DPP government made. And it\u2019s the Chakwera administration that is fixing those problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Quizzed about an alleged agreement Chakwera is said to have signed with Chilima that he would hand over the baton to his second-in-command in 2025, Zikhale Ng\u2019oma dared the hosts to produce the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a strategist. Although they don\u2019t want to mention it, but I am the one who did it,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

He challenged the programme hosts to produce a copy of the said agreement let alone read to him its contents. Apparently, Chilima told Malawians that he had agreed with Chakwera that he [Chilima] would lead the alliance in 2025.<\/p>\n

The Vice President made the sentiments at a press briefing he held a few days after he was named among alleged beneficiaries of bribes.<\/p>\n

But Zikhale Ng\u2019oma insisted that there is no such an agreement and that is why MCP leadership has settled to field Chakwera in the next poll.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Director of Research, Ken Zikhale Ng\u2019oma, has projected that President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera will scoop 71 percent of the total votes to be cast in 2025, trashing a forecast by a United Kingdom (UK)-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). 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