BPF runs out of options

Friday, August 09, 2019

BPF leaders Khama and Butale. PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

PALAPYE: As the memory of pulling multitudes at the weekend congress and rally slowly fades away, Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) leadership could now be running out of options.

Even the ‘strategic alliance’ BPF prefers to have with the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) is slowly overtaken by events as the general election gets closer and closer by the day.

Ahead of last weekend’s inaugural elective congress and massive rally in Palapye, the BPF had promised to break the news of the form of alliance with the UDC and the strategic constituencies where they preferred to contest. However, nothing has yet done in that realm..

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