By Linda Kwanjana
As the first person to openly challenge Peter Mutharika’s leadership, Kondwani Nankhumwa has always been a thorn in Peter Mutharika’s fresh and the Mutharika camp has always been looking for an opportunity to pounce on him.
So, Nankhumwa has been walking around with the hangman’s noose around his neck.The more his star has been shining the more the Mutharika’s apologists became determined to get rid of him. Now it seems the opportunity has availed itself, Nankhumwa is about to face the music when he appears before the party’s discipine committee.
The story is that the DPP has summomed Nankhumwa to appear before its disciplinary committee for some alleged insubordination to party president Peter Mutharika.
According to the letter signed by the Disciplinary Committee secretary Jean Mathanga, Nankhumwa has been summoned because he did not seek permission from the party leadership for his recent rallies in Blantyre.
Nankhumwa, who is considered to be the clear favourite to win the DPP leadership race at the convention has been up and down in the southern region conducting rallies.
Looking at the composition of the disciplinary committee, one would not fancy Nankhumwa to survive the expulsion but, the DPP vice president for southern region and the current leader of opposion in Parliament has proven to be too hot to handle for anyone including Mutharika.
Chaired by the out of salt George Chaponda, the disciplinary committee is more or less like the latter day senhedrin and Chaponda being its Caiaphas.
Chaponda himself still nurses presidential ambitions-ironically this is a man (Nankhumwa) who is suspected to have had a hand in his diminishing political ambitions and he will do anything possible to finish off his competition in order to give his political ambitions a lifeline.
It remain to be seen if Chaponda will appear before the committee, but it will not be surprising if he will decide not to appear before a committee now that the resolution of the recent NGC meeting including the decision to assemble the current disciplinary committee was nullified by the Supreme Court.
