Mass exodus of BCP members to BDP in Okavango is wishful thinking
Dithapelo Keorapetse | Wednesday September 21, 2016 16:57
The fabricators allege that over 200 BCP members have defected to the BDP and were welcomed alongside the Okavango MP on Saturday, September 17. These reports are not only misleading and fraudulent, but are a vile propaganda seeking to confuse party members.
The facts are that the BDP welcomed two notable erstwhile BCP activists namely the area MP and his campaign manager and their few relatives. Other five members were either inactive or formerly BDP members returning to their party. We challenge the BDP to publish the names of the 200 alleged defectors with BCP card numbers, their wards and dates of their membership cards and or validity.
The BCP in Okavango remains intact and a force to reckon with. We shall retain the constituency in 2019 and protect the legacies of Motsamai K. Mpho and Joseph P. Kavindama.
Lest we forget that the opposition has won the constituency in 1969, 1974, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2009 and 2014, that is 8 out of 11 elections.
The Okavango constituents clearly detest the ruling party because of its failure to recognise their languages and their failure to address issues of poverty, unemployment and limited access to education, health and other essential services.
BCP has loyal members in the area who can never be bought with loans and positions they lawfully could not qualify for.
The Okavango residents are angry at the BDP; they’ve been enslaved by foreigners and naturalised citizens who are fraudulently running big tourism ventures while the local people remain spectators of the fraud in their own backyard.
BCP members are therefore advised to ignore and dismiss the obviously biased Btv and state media reports that there are mass defections as wishful thinking by the BDP.
Dithapelo Keorapetse
Information and publicity secretary, BCP