Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba has distanced himself from rumours hovering on the social media that he has endorsed the party’s vice President for Central region Alfred Gaganda on the post of runningmate head of the 2025 polls.

On Monday morning social media was awash with post purportedly from Namalomba endorsing Gangata on the post of runningmate.

But Namalomba described the post as fake.

“I must bring to your attention a post that has come to my notice. It is a false and malicious propaganda, created by our enemies to spread false information (here below stamped fake). I want to assure you that I have not made any such post on my Facebook page, and in fact, I have not posted anything in the past 10 days.

“I urge you all to not believe these malicious attempts to defame me and instead, stand by me as we work towards a win with Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika next year,” wrote Namalomba.

He added: “The devil is a liar.”

Mutharika is scheduled to reveal his running mate the day he will be submitting nomination papers to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC).