BDP wouldn’t dare recruit me – Motshegwa
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Motshegwa’s 2019 candidature was seen as a strategy by the UDC PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Speaking during a media briefing this week, Motshegwa said people who suggest that he could dump the BNF for the BDP do not know him at all. “Everyone at the BDP knows they cannot talk to me. I spent almost the entire period of my life fighting the BDP in the labour movement and I left the public service at the expulsion of the BDP government for my trade union work.
I was one of the people who led the massive 2011 strike,” he said. Motshegwa said as a member of the BNF and part of the leadership, their agenda is to fight the BDP. There were also rumours that Motshegwa had fallen out with the BNF president Duma Boko because they do not agree on a lot of issues.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...