Pro-Pilane faction wants Mmolotsi fired
Tsaone Basimanebotlhe | Wednesday June 1, 2016 18:00
The pro Pilane team is not happy that the anti-Pilane team is using the current president and vice president’s tour and rallies to canvass support from members. The pro-Pilane team is alleged to have met this weekend in Phakalane, Mmegi has learnt.
The president and vice president’s tour started recently to inform members about what led to the collapse of the party national executive committee (NEC). The pro-Pilane faction is calling for reconciliation while the anti-Pilane group is calling for a special congress and the suspension of Pilane’s membership in the party. The infighting of the NEC started after Mochudi West constituency approved Pilane’s membership. Pilane attended the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) rally in Lerala on Saturday. “It was agreed that Mmolotsi be fired from the party because he is the one causing the unnecessary instability. Again the current party disciplinary committee seems to be in support of what is happening because it failed to act against Mmolotsi after he attacked the party chairperson Nehemiah Modubule. They want NEC to be dissolved,” a source said.
It is alleged that the pro-Pilane team also wants the MP for Mogoditshane, Sedirwa Kgoroba to be suspended from the party for continuing his attack on other party members on social media. The majority of the NEC members are in the pro-Pilane team. However, Modubule has disputed allegations that his team met to plan on how they should fire Mmolotsi and suspend Kgoroba.
“It is not true that we met and took that decision. Nowadays there are a lot of unnecessary lies in our party and whenever people see others together, they think they are in a meeting. For starters, the party disciplinary committee has not existed. In fact that structure never met, so how can someone dissolve something that is not there? An existing structure is the one which held the meeting,” Modubule said.
He however said though he does not believe in the special congress, he now thinks it should be called so that peace prevails in the movement. Mmolotsi and Kgoroba said the party is still investigating the issue and promised to comment after they had finished with investigations.