{"id":57839,"date":"2024-02-01T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=57839"},"modified":"2024-02-01T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T06:03:57","slug":"mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale","title":{"rendered":"Mutharika replaces Grezelder with Clement Mwale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Days after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Grezelder Jeffrey organised a National Governing Council (NGC) meeting, leader of the party Peter Mutharika has replaced her with Clement Mwale.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a press statement which has been signed by Mutharika which says Jeffrey has been moved to the position of the party\u2019s vice president for the Central Region.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika says the party constitution gives him the mandate to assign any National Governing Council member to any position, hence the change which is with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy virtue of the powers vested in me under Article 10(8) of the DPP Constitution which I quote; \u201cThe President shall have power to assign a member of the National Governing Council to any public or political office. Unless otherwise directed by the President, a member so assigned or so appointed, shall cease to hold his original office or to exercise or to perform the functions of that original office in the National Governing Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hereby assigning Hon Grezelder Jeffrey to the position of Vice President Central Region and Hon Dr Clement Mwale to the position of Secretary General General of the Party with immediate effect,\u201d says Mutharika in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership wrangles continue to haunt the former ruling party which now has two factions, one led by Mutharika and another led by DPP vice president for the South Kondwani Nankhumwa.<\/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. Days after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Grezelder Jeffrey organised a National Governing Council (NGC) meeting, leader of the party Peter Mutharika has replaced her with Clement Mwale. This is according to a press statement which has been signed by Mutharika which says Jeffrey has been moved to the position of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10,410],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-57839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","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>Mutharika replaces Grezelder with Clement Mwale - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Days after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Grezelder Jeffrey organised a National Governing Council ...\" \/>\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\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mutharika replaces Grezelder with Clement Mwale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Days after Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Grezelder Jeffrey organised a National Governing Council ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\" \/>\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=\"2024-02-01T22:32:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/sm_1706754701.941921.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1040\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"493\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mutharika replaces Grezelder with Clement Mwale\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-01T22:32:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/02\/sm_1706754701.941921.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mutharika-replaces-grezelder-with-clement-mwale\",\"name\":\"Mutharika replaces Grezelder with Clement Mwale - 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