BDP postpones Bulela Ditswe in panic

Former President Ian Khama was this morning openly decampaigning the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security and Bobonong MP Shaw Kgathi  PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Former President Ian Khama was this morning openly decampaigning the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security and Bobonong MP Shaw Kgathi PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has postponed its highly anticipated primary elections dubbed Bulela Ditswe, which were supposed to be held on August 11, 2018.

In a press statement issued late evening on Monday the party secretary Mpho Balopi said, “The postponement was necessitated by the discovery of a compromise to the integrity of the voters roll of the Botswana Democratic Party in the form of a hacking of the roll Specific to the 38 BDP held Constituencies which were the subject of the up coming Bulela Ditswe". 

Balopi also said the party Central Committee will hold a meeting to brief various structures at the Palapye International Convention Centre (PICC) on August 11, 2018.

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