The agony of BDP primaries

Palapye:

The BDP Central Committee (CC) made a callous decision when it endorsed a newcomer in the political game, Kungo Mabogo, ahead of another operative, Isaac Maforaga, who has been in the trenches for a long time now. The party politburo chose to vet out Maforaga and vet in a political greenhorn, Mabogo, who has been living outside the country for a long time in Namibia where the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) employed her. The decision can both be good and bad. Good in that, Mabogo, whose father was one of Palapye’s longest serving councillors, would like to leverage on the existing history to return the Palapye constituency to the ruling party. Since independence, Palapye was a stronghold of the ruling party until the 2019 General Election when the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) re-wrote history by ousting the ruling party. It is a tough call and Mabogo’s role will be to reconcile all the bruised party activists who are still reeling from the party’s shocking decision.