Politics
Enock Chakufwa Chihana
Second Vice President of Malawi
Job approval
How is Enock Chakufwa Chihana doing in the job?
Reader poll, not a scientific survey. Votes are private; only totals are shown.
- Second Vice President
- In office since
- October 2025
Enock Chakufwa Chihana is the Second Vice President of Malawi, appointed on 5 October 2025, serving under President Peter Mutharika. Government statements give his full name as Enoch Kamzingeni Chihana.
He was born in Rumphi district, the son of Chakufwa Chihana, the pro-democracy campaigner who founded the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) and helped end one-party rule in the early 1990s. Enock Chihana has led AFORD since September 2013.
He entered Parliament through a 2012 by-election in Rumphi Central and held the seat in later elections. From 2012 to 2014 he was Minister of Sports and Youth Development under President Joyce Banda. In 2018 he became vice president of the Southern Africa caucus of the Pan-African Parliament.
AFORD went into an electoral alliance with the DPP in September 2025, and Mutharika made Chihana Second Vice President a month later. He won Rumphi Central again in the September 2025 election but gave the seat up on taking office, and a by-election was held on 17 March 2026. He has long argued for a federal system, saying it would share development more fairly between the regions.
