BDP has only itself to blame :: Mmegi Online

The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has itself to blame for the weekend loss at the Moselewapula ward by-election, the ward, which they had won comfortably during the 2014 general elections. Mmegi Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE sheds more light on the ruling party’s bitter loss

FRANCISTOWN: The late Lechedzani Modenga of the BDP had garnered 663 votes, followed by Reuben Ketlhoilwe of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) who was voted by 379 people. Odireleng Ditshotlo representing the then Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and independent candidate Johnson Moremi got 142 and 120 votes respectively. That was in the 2014 general elections when the BDP retained its ward.

Fast forward and leap into 2018, tables were turned last weekend as Ketlhoilwe now representing the UDC, vanquished the ruling BDP by garnering 317 votes. The BDP’s Gilbert Boikhutso with 285 votes followed him. New comers Alliance for Progressives (AP) represented by Odireleng Ditshotlo trailed with 139 votes.

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