Tumotumo guns for BCP-BPF coalition

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Tumo Tumo

Palapye-based Dineo Tumotumo has retraced his steps back to the party of his first love-Botswana Congress Party (BCP)-but his reverence for his Kgosi, former president Ian Khama remains unparalled.

In this interview, Tumotumo was nostalgic as he reminisced about the formative days of the political outfit that until recently he served with all his heart-the BPF. He is one of the supporters of former president Khama who regularly even adorned the black T-shirts boldly inscribed: “Eseng mo go kgosikgolo (Leave our paramount chief alone).”

This was the period before the BPF chose sunrise yellow as its colour of choice and for the purposes of the elections. At the formative stages of the BPF, Tumotumo most of the time sat at the top table at the show grounds in Serowe as he had just jumped ship from the BCP to start a new life at the Khama-inspired political party.

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