BCP members want party to pull out from UDC

BCP Members
BCP Members

Incessant internal wrangles bedevilling Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) affiliates, Botswana Congress Party (BCP) and Botswana National Front (BNF) have reportedly reached an all time high, Mmegi has learnt.

The BC, BNF and Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) are the constituent elements of  the UDC tri-party alliance.

It has since surfaced that bitter rivalry is brewing between the two parties who believe they are bigger than each other. The fight for the control of the UDC is threatening to further polarise the parties that have known no peace for sometime now. Mmegi has reliably been informed that the recent Student Representative Council (SRC) elections at the University of Botswana (UB) compounded the situation as the BCP candidates who wanted to contest under the UDC banner were snubbed.

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