We wish to make it clear that the ex-Board had no intention of running a public war of words with the Central Committee. We also wished to state in no uncertain terms that the resignation of the Board was not related to the factional tensions that seem to continue to trouble the organisation. The Board has administered and supervised electoral processes leading up to this point, just as it did for the Molepolole Central Committee elections, without fear or favour. And up to this point no-one can accuse the ex-Board of having taken sides in any BNF internal spats. We had generally kept clear of the day to day partisan politics in the party in keeping with the requirements of our job. Many Constituency Elections Committees will attest to the fact that the Board has continually urged them to do likewise to protect the integrity of the internal electoral process.
It was never the intention of the Board to respond to any of the allegations in the press. But we are forced to respond to the unsavoury assertions that our resignation is a natural and expected consequence of the factional tensions in the party. We wish to state categorically that our resignation was prompted by the differences in interpretations between us and the Central Committee, about who instrumentally drives the electoral processes in terms of the BNF constitution, which we deem to take precedence over a section of the Primary Elections Regulations that has been inserted to portray the Board as a sub-committee of the Central Committee.
