A tight race for Mayoral election

The faction is reported to have settled on Ikageleng councillor Shadreck Nyeku from Francistown South constituency to go for the mayor's seat with Stanley Masalila of Tatitown ward as his deputy.

However, Nyeku said yesterday that the BDP has not yet met to decide on who will become mayor."We are yet to meet as BDP members to determine who will contest the mayoral seat," said the 49-year-old councillor. "May be after meeting that is when we will be able to say something," he added. Nyeku is a first time councillor and a businessman in the construction industry. He served for many years as an employee of the Standard Chartered Bank. He cut his political teeth in the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP).