BCP postpones verdict in Tawele's case

| Wednesday February 12, 2014 19:39

 

The party initially planned to hold a meeting on Saturday to reach a verdict on the case involving Tawele, but the meeting never took place.

“The meeting which was meant to decide Tawele’s case has been postponed to a date to be communicated by the party.”

The meeting did not materialise because the party had workshops for its cadres in the Southern part of the country. 

“The leadership was engaged at the workshop which resulted in the postponement,” the party’s deputy secretary general Akanyang Magama told Mmegi yesterday.  “The postponement was done at the 11th hour,” he added.

Tawele is protesting the party’s decision to ban him from contesting the Francistown South primary elections against the party’s National Organising Secretary Vain Mamela.

The primaries are to book candidacy for the general elections late this year. The BCP has twice turned down Tawele’s request to be granted his wish to contest the primaries.

The party maintained that Tawele has been inactive in party activities since the 2009 general election, which automatically disqualified him from contesting the primaries. Tawele on the other hand maintains the contrary.  However, after Tawele’s threats early last month to approach the court for redress, the BCP decided to revisit the case involving the Ipopeng ward 2009 general election losing candidate. After receiving legal threats, the party  also engaged independent legal advisors to help with advice on how their case with Tawele can best be dealt with.

The BCP confirmed last week that the report from independent legal advisors, who could not be named for confidentiality reasons, is ready though its contents would not be made public. Tawele has also refused to be drawn into discussing his case. But a high-ranking source in the party last week disclosed that Tawele may be granted his wish to contest the party primaries because the report from legal advisors does not fault him in anyway.