The February attempted coup

Apparently there had been some murmurs from some Cabinet ministers to the President. What was not clear was what these were all about. It did not take long to find out. Let’s rewind to 2015 to complete the narration.

In 2015, the BDP as was a norm held its national congress for election of the Central Committee. These elections were held every two years. The congress and the  elections were held in Mmadinare. Mokgweetsi Masisi was a late entrant to the elections. Prior to his announcement, there was Tebelelo Seretse, Ndelu Seretse, Moemedi Dijeng and Biggie Butale vying for the chairmanship of the BDP. Naturally, party members including MPs had aligned themselves with some of these candidates. Whilst I did not support Butale, I admired his courage. He was a man, hardly two years as an MP, who now sought to lead the party. He would years later realise this dream, when he became president of the Botswana Patriotic Front. There were also suggestions at the time that Tshekedi Khama wanted to stand for the position of chairperson, although he never really took a public position on it.