Elimination process favoured Masisi for VP

Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

The process of nominating President Ian Khama’s Vice President (VP) in 2014 was in fact bigger than the incumbent, Mokgweetsi Masisi. The Moshupa-born politician truly happened to have been at the right place at the right time. Mmegi Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE reports that Masisi was unlikely to become the VP if it were not for the process of elimination that Khama found himself grappling with in an attempt to settle for a suitable deputy

FRANCISTOWN: Mokgweetsi Masisi apparently benefitted from a seemingly political elimination process undertaken by President Ian Khama as he screened people who were tipped to be in the race for the VP position.

Even Masisi did not fancy his chances of being the future state President so early in his political career which started in earnest when he tried his luck for the first time against then Moshupa MP, Maitlhoko Mooka in the party’s parliamentary primary elections and lost.

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