Pilane accepts BMD ordinary membership

Pilane
Pilane

Advocate Sidney Pilane, though he does not agree with the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) call for his party to hold a fresh congress in January 2018, has accepted to become an ordinary member of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD).

The UDC president, Duma Boko has refused to accept the current leadership of the BMD led by Pilane and called on the troubled movement to hold a fresh congress. In a recent letter to the BMD, Boko wrote: “The UDC NEC took the following decision, which it directed me to communicate to yourselves.

“Consistently with the decision it delivered in the BMD mediation, the circumstances leading up to and including the holding of the Congress at Matshekge did not conduce to the holding of a free, fair and credible Congress. Resultantly: no proper and acceptable leadership or Executive Committee could reasonably have been constituted by the said gathering;      

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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