Mpuang denies going Mokoko
Chakalisa Dube | Wednesday March 26, 2014 15:51
Last month Mpuang lost the ruling party primary elections at Francistown West to former mayor Ignatius Moswaana. Speculation has been rife that Mpuang wants to contest the council seat or even the Francistown West parliamentary as a mokoko.
Monarch East ward has since been renamed Monarch North. Mpuang however told Mmegi that, “I do not intend to contest the elections independently. My aim now is to ready myself for the 2019 general elections.
“I intend to contest the general elections in Francistown West in 2019 so I want to ready myself for the primaries to qualify for the 2019 elections.”
He insisted that his detractors are behind the speculation. “Those who are spreading rumours that I am going solo are just doing so to mislead the public. I am very happy at the BDP and I do not think that it will be wise to contest the elections independently.”
But Mpuang’s denials have not settled the matter as a BDP insider insisted that the politician, who was part of the group that returned to the BDP from the break-away Botswana Movement for Democracy, is planning to contest the elections as an independent candidate. The source stated that Ace Ntheetsang and Johnson Moremi who are both BDP councillors at Kanana and Moselewapula ward in Francistown will be supporting Mpuang’s bid to be become MP.
Ntheetsang has confirmed that he will be going solo while Moremi confirmed that he plans to follow suit at the next general elections but is yet to take a final position. The two councillors have, however, denied any link to Mpuang. Both Moselewapula and Kanana wards are in the Francistown West constituency.