NPF resurrects as Aford is rebuilding
National Patriotic Front (NPF), a political party registered in 1995 but faded away, has embarked on a regrouping and rebuilding drive to offer economic hope and clean politics to Malawians.
NPF and other parties attempted to merge with Alliance for Democracy (Aford) in 2013 during its convention, but the merger flopped as some parties refused to be completely swallowed by Aford.
Aford president Enoch Chihana at the time demanded that the other parties be deregistered first.
Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, NPF president Alec Malanga said his party is slowly rebuilding to offer an alternative.
He said his party, which will offer economic hope to Malawians, has national ideologies; hence, the name National Patriotic Front.
Asked if rebuilding of NPF would not affect the power broker that Chihana wants to create and if such a move also qualifies Chihana’s claims that politicians in the North are greedy and not united, Malanga said it is hard for Aford to become the region’s political power house because it rejected other parties from joining it at the convention.
Former Aford member Dan Msowoya, who has been roped in NPF, said Aford’s rebuilding is a re-union of United Democratic Front (UDF) members as such it would be hard to become a broker for the region.
He said Malawi needs the party more than ever arguing time has come for the country to practice clean politics.
If Aord want to gain its glory in the north, the first step is any Chihana family member to stop vying for the presidency. It is Chakufwa Chihana who killed Aford formed while he was in prison as Hastings Akim Kamunkhwala Banda did with MCP. Beyond that, then Enock is just fantasizing. A research we conduct in Chitipa, Karonga, Nkhata Bay and Mzimba indicates that 97.2 percent of voters lost trust in Aford leadership and cannot associate with the party. If the leadership of the party contest this claim, we can share results. I will not reveal the institution carried out this study for now until the demand is made. Aford leadership has uphill journey even to regain one-tenth of what it was in 1994.