Lone BMD Councillor Joins BDP

Monday, September 07, 2020

President Mokgweetsi Masisi will officially welcome Meshack Makgosa

The only councillor to bag a win for the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in the Bobonong constituency has defected to the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).

The Monitor learnt that councillor Meshack Makgosa of Mathathane ward will be officially welcomed into the BDP by party leader President Mokgweetsi Masisi next week.

In the last elections, BMD failed to secure a seat in Parliament with just Makgosa being the only councillor who made it at the polls. A source said the reason the councillor was resigning from the BMD was because the party did not have existing structures in the area.

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Lone BMD Councillor Joins BDP

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