MALAWI ON THE MOVE

We have seen Malawi move forward from colonialism to a one party dictatorship state to a democratic transition and then to an economic zygote that is happening right now with the current regime. MCP and UDF cannot just accept this and bury the hatchet with the current regime. The type of leadership Malawi has now is very rare in Africa especially in this age's political scene as simply put by Canadian Lewis, in the article written on Tuesday May 05/09 in the Daily Times entitled "Bingu praised at US summit". He may not be an excellent politician per say in comparison to former president and UDF chairman Bakili Muluzi or MCP opposition leader John Tembo. But he certainly is a dream come true for Malawi's developmental plans. I can assure the people of Malawi that any manifesto the other parties are presenting is of no comparison to Mutharika's because what they are saying is typically a niche of what Mutharika is already offering for the lovely people of Malawi in his manifesto. His manifesto is a train carrying all these other manifestos as passengers.

Malawians do not really need and exceptional politician at this point but rather there is need for a superb leader who can take people's welfare and development of the country into a realistic future. Yes Mutharika is already above average as a politician and that is enough and the rest is indeed told by his work done and that which is still in the pipeline.
The other politicians are indeed just "politicians" playing "politics" with no extraordinary and sufficient manifesto and with no paramount and concrete ideas. Most of the supporters of these opposition parties are just moved by the political speeches of the leaders of their parties and not by the economic and development side of things. This is clearly evident because if it were about the economics side of things, well Mutharika has done it, is going to do it and has a good team willing to work and develop the country for the next 5 years and the evidence is plainly visible, right there in uppercase and bold.

But the opposition is getting the people of Malawi to view all the 5 year developments and Mutharika's vision with a blind eye. They are practicing the old politics during the one party rule where Malawians were completely like lambs, blind folded and made gullible into perceiving that government was infallible hence needn't any correction, in disguise and yes, consequences indeed did follow to any opponents. This is true as the leaders of the two opposition parties are the same who held influential positions in the old one party regime. Their political approach has only changed on two fronts according to what I see, which are:

They are more politically tolerant to other parties as undeniably, it is of course, an era of democracy and secondly, No use of force, torture or death on political adversaries (which I am quiet uncertain as of yet because there has been some few disturbing developments on the ground).
But apart from these, everything else has remained the same we can clearly see what that is too, without need to explain here.
With the so called coalition right now, which to me is a failure as coalitions are problems in Africa ably because there is less to no focus on the needs of the country and its people but fixing political differences and sharing power and positions just to satisfy individuals and political pacts. A coalition between UDF and MCP is of no substance because these two parties have no common grounds in their manifesto and let alone interests and if we could go back in time to when UDF came into power, the language and stones these two parties threw at each other was enormously disdainful.
Its best to expose some of the media coverage of such a political impasse during that era for people to be alerted that history decides the future. And if they get back in power, there will definitely be a lot of bickering and problems to misunderstandings hence the shift in focus from country to appeasing individual interests and materialism. UDF has a good number of historically greedy politicians. And MCP on the other hand, will definitely not entertain nor will it condone that because they would need to serve their own purpose and interests too. It is complicated in Africa and its better to make political parties sovereign and let democracy take its course. In fact, if the coalition wins, how will they be in the next elections since what seems to be the main and common goal between the two parties to get into a coalition was achieved; which basically was to unseat Dr Bingu Wa Mutharika according to the main architect, Dr Bakili Muluzi, whom this was generally his personal vendetta against Mutharika and not for the country.
We have a saying in Malawi that there is a lot of ideas and smarts as to how to climb up a tree but not when getting down. Its the same with these political parties, especially big parties like UDF and MCP forming a coalition.

Malawians lets not complicate things more than they already are. Malawians, we listen too much.We were forced to listen, dragged to caucuses just to listen, told not to travel or do what we wanted to do just observe some day by listening to the radio by our the very own old regime and we still are in that state until now because it looks like the syndrome is being passed from generation to generation. We get diverted from truth, future dreams, history, knowledge,what is correct and what matters and we listen and support that which is the loudest negative. Let those who play politics do that but do not let them blind fold us by their sharp utterance; lets not let our reasoning and intellectual capacity be subdued by total deception when we have already seen and experienced what some of these politicians are capable of achieving or not. Lets give way to those who are willing to develop the country, those not willing to play cheap politics but move the country forward without malice, greed or personal vendetta, but only for the love of their beloved motherland, Malawi, the Warm heart of Africa.