The Blantyre Synod of the CCAP church has said the post election conflicts which occured in Kenya and Zimbabwe are worrisome and not good to be repeated in Malawi after May 19 elections.
The synod's communications manager Reverend Paul Mawaya told a local radio this morning that the synod has since organised prayers today (Thursday) to ask God that Malawi goes through peaceful, free and fair elections.
"We do not want the country to experience what Kenya and Zimbabwe did," said Mawaya.
After elections in Zimbabwe and Kenya the opposition disputed the results and called for a power sharing government. Violence erupted and some lost lives.
Mawaya said only God's intervention would facilitate peaceful elections.The prayers, he said, would take place at St. Columba CCAP church in Blantyre City."We have invited all presidential candidates, parliamentary candidates and elelctoral stakeholders," we said.
Last week Friday, only two presidential candidates attended the presidential prayer breakfast at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre.
For sure President Bingu wa Mutharika will miss today's prayers because he is expected to preside over a function at the tomb of the first president of the country Hastings Kamuzu Banda in the capital city Lilongwe.
May 14 is Kamuzu day and it is a public holiday in Malawi.
In the afternoon the president is expected to hold a mass rally in his home district of Thyolo.
African Elections Project (AEP) Malawi
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