Four aspire to chair BDP youth

Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Thursday February 13, 2014 21:20

The BDPNYEC will hold its congress in Masunga on May 29. The three are Twoboy Matseka, Thabo Autlwetse, and Thato Baruti. Baruti is the incumbent BDPNYEC treasurer. Boatile has confirmed that he will defend his position come the May elections. He said the reason why he wants to defend his post is because he has not yet finished his mission. He would want to see most youth candidates winning council seats across the country.

“I had encouraged some of the youth to contest for council seats and they have since won primary elections. It is NYEC’s responsibility to help them achieve that. As the chairperson I believe I can help them together with my committee as we did previously,” he said. He said they had agreed in their previous meeting that they held in January this year that their committee members are free to campaign or join any lobby list. Boatile said for now they are cooperating well despite being in different lobby lists.

Another candidate Baruti said his lobby list would be complete by next week. He says he can serve well as chairman because he knows the youth issues well. “Most of the youth are the ones who encouraged me to contest for chairmanship,” he said. 

For his part, Matseka said for now he is still consulting regions for him to complete his lobby list.  He said though the campaign has started, the challenges they are having are that delegates have not yet been chosen from the different branches. “Our campaigns were going to be effective if delegates had been chosen by now. I believe I am the rightful candidate for that post because I have served BDP in different structures,” said Matseka.

Autlwetse declined to comment on the matter.