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Inside UDC meetings that broke the coalition

Kekgonegile Goretetse PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Kekgonegile Goretetse PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

This past weekend, the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Secretary-General (SG) Goretetse Kekgonegile revealed what happens in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC)’s highest decision making body and how his party has been side-lined by a small group of the National Executive Committee (NEC) members who decide to do things their way.

When this feud between the BCP and the UDC started, the main conflict arose from the former’s contention that the opposition is poorly governed by a tyrannical leader in Duma Boko who takes major decisions alone.

But Boko has always maintained that there is no way he could coerce all members of the UDC NEC to do his bidding.

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