Speaking over the weekend at the launch of the Botswana People's Party (BPP) candidate for the council by-election, Thabani Peter, he said the internal sparring makes it easy for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to cruise to victory at the polls."As Umbrella party members, we should shy away from the disheartening tendency of trying to lure voters by saying bad things about other opposition parties and throwing obscenities at them during rallies and campaigns.
We should lure voters to vote for us during the elections by selling our policies to them," he said.The BPP, BMD and the Botswana National Front (BNF) are members of the Umbrella party.Of defectors he advised; "We should get used to defections in politics. We should let these people go if they want to go without attacking them. They are merely exercising their right of association. It will be fine one day. One day some of them will come back"."There is nothing like stability in politics. One day other parties will also be losing their members to the Umbrella so we should have little to worry about current events".The national chairman of the BPP Richard Gudu concurred with Motswaledi."If we continue attacking each other, the BDP gets fulfilled because we are splitting votes.
