Though there are traces of divisions on who is mostly preferred for the seat, the campaigns are clean and done in-house. However, ruling party councillors who are dominating the council may be busy lobbying for each other's support to strike a balance in ensuring that a mayor is elected from one constituency and the deputy from the other.
The previous elections were nothing to write home about as they were characterised by tensions that saw opposition councillors declining and storming out of the council chamber while some ruling party councillors declined to chair some committees leading to a shortage of members of the Finance committee. The committee comprises chairmen of different committees. This was allegedly due to the fact that some ruling party councillors were not happy with the outcome of their own caucus.
So far only two councillors have declared that they are available for the mayoral race being the current mayor Benjamin Bagayi and for deputy mayor, councillor Amogelang Mojuta. As many had expected, former mayor Molosiwa Molosiwa would not be challenging his seat. Molosiwa had been a mayor for a consecutive seven years. Molosiwa surprised the tightly-packed council chamber earlier this year when he declared that he was not contesting the seat before stepping down.
