Scramble for Gabs causes BDP headache
Monday, May 08, 2023 | 350 Views |
Tsholetsa House PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Gaborone Regional Committee chairperson, Lepsy Mosope and his team have been fingered in an elaborate scheme to assist Janjaweed faction councillors and preferred Members of Parliament (MP) who voted for him to return to office unopposed later this year. Mosope has however rubbished the claims stating that it is people who do not want to respect the party’s constitution who are complaining.
The Regional Committee is being accused by various campaign teams of sponsoring the complete disruption and halting of membership registration in the region. It has been established that since membership registration started in earnest last year in November not a single constituency has been able to process a single membership card.
With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...