He expelled her from the party in 2010 because she refused to accept the nomination of Peter Mutharika as the next president.
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Mutharika won the presidential election on 20 May 2004, ahead of John Tembo and Gwanda Chakuamba, and took office a few days later.
On 14 September 2005, police arrested opposition leader Gwanda Chakuamba for violating this law at a political rally where he allegedly insulted President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Odillo has been much lauded for the role he played in the 2012 Malawian constitutional crisis in which an attempt to cover up the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in order to stop vice-president Joyce Banda from becoming president.
The Zero Deficit Budget (ZDB) is a financial strategy laid out by Minister of Finance Ken Kandodo of Malawi under the Bingu wa Mutharika administration that is based on zero-based budgeting.