Khama endorses Masisi for BDP chairpersonship?

Rock solid: Khama and Masisi at the party's manifesto launch last year
Rock solid: Khama and Masisi at the party's manifesto launch last year

PALAPYE: President Ian Khama seems to have irked Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) members, following what was perceived as outright endorsement of Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi for the party’s chairmanship yesterday in Palapye.

Members of the BDP convened an impromptu meeting for the party leadership, members of Parliament and civic leaders in Palapye yesterday, in a team building exercise meant to foster cooperation between councillors and MPs.

Several sources at the meeting said that Khama had openly sold Masisi to the various party leadership as the candidate for the tough chairmanship race much to the chagrin of the other present camps. Khama reportedly asked Masisi whether he was contesting the party chairmanship race to which the latter answered in the affirmative.

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