BPP unsettled at opposition pact in Tonota

FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Peoples' Party (BPP) has remained conspicuously absent from the activities of the other opposition parties in the campaign for the impending Tonota North by-election.

The party leadership is not agreed on opposition cooperation there. According to impeccable sources, there is a group in the BPP leadership which feels that the party can benefit more by cooperating with the ruling party. 

The group, which consists mainly of members who recently joined the BPP from the BCP, including party president, Whyte Marobela, argues that the BPP has not benefited anything from past election pacts with the opposition, adding that instead, the party lost its members to the parties it went into alliances with. So serious is the fallout that when the proposal was made at a recent central committee meeting, some members walked out.

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