Tumotumo guns for BCP-BPF coalition
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 70 Views |
Tumo Tumo
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.
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...