Two Molepolole North councillors defect to BMD

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Two councillors of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in Molepolole North, Moses Mmualefhe and Kegomotsegile Keipeile defected to the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) over the weekend.

In an interview with Mmegi on Friday, Mmualefhe, a veteran BDP activist and prominent councillor of Boribamo West said he resigned from the ruling party because he realised it has changed and is no longer as democratic as it was set out to be.

Keipeile, a former trade unionist also reiterated similar sentiments, adding that "We have realised that the BDP has changed. It is now the BDP for A-Team faction only, whilst those of us who belong to the Barata-Phathi faction are being sidelined, treated like non-BDP members. We have gone to our party, the BMD where we belong and know we cannot be sidelined," he said. The defections have left the BDP with seven out of the nine councillors in Molepolole North as two of them are now BMD.

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