This was disclosed at a press briefing held at Game haven in Bvumbwe on Thursday. MCPs Secretary General Gustav Kaliwo emphasized that any purported Regional or district elections held after elections were not sanctioned by the party thereby making them invalid.

“All elections that were held in the Southern Region, Blantyre District Urban, Dowa West, Lilongwe Rural west and Mchinji South are null and void. The party does not recognize any person claiming to have been elected in those unsanctioned elections," Kaliwo said.

Flanked by the party’s Treasurer General Tony Kandiero, Second vice president MacDonald Lombola and MCP member Mayi Dinala, the Lawyer-cum-politician said his party would hold elections soon to put to rest all the dissenting voices that are currently on the ground.

“The NEC also resolved that Regional Committees of the party be expanded from the current membership of 30 to 90 members," Kaliwo continued.

Recently there have been disagreements in the party where others have failed to recognise the authority of some National Executive Committee (NEC) members to an extent of petitioning the party's president Dr Lazarous Chakwera.

Reports say there are still people that are calling for the head of the party’s second vice president MacDonald Lombola who is being accused of being dormant, a situation which led to the party not to win any Local Government or Parliamentary seat in the Southern Region.