BMTV Pledges Full Support to President Mutharika’s Leadership
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By Vincent Gunde
Bakili Muluzi TV (BMTV) has openly pledged its unwavering support to the leadership of President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), promising to stand with the government in advancing the will of the people above all else.
BMTV, a well-followed online television station known for its bold political commentary, said its focus will be on helping the Mutharika administration rebuild Malawi after what it described as five “painful” years under Malawi Congress Party (MCP) rule.
According to BMTV, during President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s term, it tirelessly supported opposition parties with the goal of liberating the country from “MCP dictatorship” and preventing a return to one-party rule.
“It was always my prayer that one opposition leader should rise and lead Malawi back to freedom,” the statement read.
“That prayer has been answered through Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika’s landslide victory.”
Posting on his Facebook page, the station’s founder, known simply as Bakili Muluzi TV, revealed that several Malawians have been urging him to continue offering a critical but constructive voice, ensuring that government remains people-centred. He, however, clarified that this time his full loyalty lies with the new government.
He claimed that during the Chakwera administration, he and his close ally Comrade Ntanyiwa were targets of political persecution, alleging that state operatives spent over K48 million in failed attempts to track and arrest them in South Africa.
“For five years, we were hunted like animals. They wanted us either jailed or dead, but God protected us,” he wrote.
“The MCP government even brought in Zimbabwean and Rwandan ICT experts to trace us but they failed. We cannot work with people who wanted to assassinate us.”
Muluzi added that the new DPP-led administration marks “a new dawn for Malawi,” declaring that the long fight to free the nation from MCP rule has finally succeeded.
“We are now in government. Our mission to liberate Malawi is complete. The people have spoken loudly no more MCP rule,” he emphasized.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Elizabeth Kaliza Banda, a Lilongwe resident from Area 51, has applauded both Bakili Muluzi TV and Comrade Ntanyiwa of Limpopo FM Online Radio for their courage and consistency during the political transition.
Kaliza likened their efforts to those of Channel Africa in the early 1990s, where figures such as Kamlepo Kalua, Shyley Kondowe, and John Unandi Banda used the airwaves to push Malawi towards democracy.
She recalled the 14th June 1993 Referendum, when Malawians overwhelmingly voted for multiparty democracy symbolised by the hurricane lamp defeating the MCP’s black cock emblem and marking the birth of a new era.
Kaliza said history had repeated itself in September 2025, when citizens again celebrated the “Fall of Babylon” a phrase now widely used to describe the MCP’s loss.
“This victory belongs to all Malawians,” she said.
With the new political dispensation taking shape, BMTV has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting unity, patriotism, and accountability, signalling that its next chapter will be one of nation-building this time from inside the corridors of power.
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