Apparently Lobatse and Gaborone South MPs were specifically targeted in this strategy. Against established rules Moupo has just contrived to nullify the primary elections won by Magama and once again another court battle beckons as a result of this tragic leadership. At one point some of their over-zealous members were making a patently nonsensical suggestion that the BNF leader should relocate to Gaborone South because it is 'traditionally' a constituency reserved for the party leader! The damage caused by these errors and blunders or deliberate strategy of destabilisation are enormous.
Apparently the Central Committee was hoping that its preferred slate of parliamentary and council candidates would win the primary elections. Just like the campaigns for the extraordinary congress, the primary election campaigns were dogged by all sorts of irregularities, which the Central Committee either authorized or failed to stop. Even BDP members voted as they did at the extraordinary congress. Against all odds several members of our platform won council and parliamentary primary elections and even the party President was beaten fair and square by an ordinary party member.
