Veteran politician Ken Msonda who is also member of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has endorsed former President Peter Mutharika has the party’s torchbearer in the forthcoming 2025 polls.

Msonda’s endorsement comes barely hours after Mutharika blasted him of being disloyal following his action to sue the party.

“You Msonda has been very inciting and insulting me. Remember you are not a member of this party. You came from PP. You were not there when Joyce Banda was teargassing us. This stupidity must stop or you can go back to PP,” said Mutharika during the National Governing Council (NGC) meeting.

But in his Msonda said him and two colleagues withdrew the court case and Mutharika is eligible to stand as President of the party in the forthcoming 2025 polls.