Its worth to be called a journey of a blind man leading a magnitude of thousands if not a million of other blind men.Its a big procession and the end result will be that these people will definately fall into the ditch,and a number of them especially the leader will sustain serious injuries and without good medication life threatening injuries will be sustained.
This is a journey of the once popular 'United' Democratic Front on its way to the May general election in a bid to form the next government but the worrying thing is the reasoning of the man who is leading this procession, as he looks like he is lacking the sixth sence.
Former president and National chairman Bakili Muluzi claims to be allowed by the Malawi Consititution to run again after a five year break an opinion which has divided the people of Malawi with others claiming its possible.
Section 83 states that the President and vice president may serve in their capacities for a mximum of two consecutive terms, and it seems Bakili Muluzi is trying to capitalise on the wording of the said section, which will unlikely work as i feel that laws on their own can't work without reasoning.
If Muluzi think that the laws do allow him,why did the framers of the constitution based on two maximum consecutive terms?Why did they come up with the idea of specifying the number of two terms?Can he points some other sections which backs him to come back as a retired president?Why did the third and open terms failed when he was in power with all the resources at his mercy?What will happen to his pension if he will be re-elected?
If he cant give satisfying explanations on these questions ,am afraid he wont make it and he is taking a huge risk which may cost his party more and will soon follow the path taken by AFORD!
The other problem with UDF is that they are failing to notice that things move with time.Most of the voters in the coming election are those who were seven years or so in 1993 and the party is still busy using the old slogan 'zinthu zitani'?which i feel is meaningless to the youth of today who have their own special needs rather than us who were there when it was a must, to buy a party card to go inside Lilongwe market.
I suggest that Muluzi be forced to go and do a risk management course before its too late as the gods are against him and if his UDF got 49 seats in 2004 election he should expect to get almost half of those seats on 19 May,2009.
