However, the party has since become mum on Ntuane’s suggested reforms in fact one gets the impression that his suggested reforms are being rejected. Perhaps, here we should also mention that Ntuane himself was part of a group of BDP members who defected from the party and formed the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in 2010. He defected back to the BDP in 2012. Nonetheless, the supervision of Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi the BDP has since embarked on intensive and extensive recruitment drive of BCP members who were strongly opposed to the decision taken by their party to become part of the UDC formation.
Our view is that the Masisi’s campaign seems to be influenced by his worshipping at the altar of BDP’s part ‘glory’. On the other hand, Ntuane’s suggested reform model was influenced by realistic gazing at the country’s political crystal ball. It is important to understand the fact that Ntuane unlike Masisi has been baptized in the trenches of opposition politics where life is extremely hard! This is why he fears for the BDP should it lose elections in 2019. His two-year stint as vice president of the BMD and leader of opposition in Parliament was a critical eye-opener in his political career. This gave him firsthand experience of the poverty the opposition is subjected to. He also witnessed how opposition politics deplete activists’ personal and family resources.
