UDC Statement On Attacks On The Umbrella And Its Leadership :: Mmegi Online

A new trend has emerged since schisms appeared in the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). It has even gotten worse since a section of the party left to found a new formation, Alliance of Progressives (AP).

The trend has taken the form of sustained attacks on the UDC in general, and its leadership in particular, by individuals who only a few months were colleagues in the UDC project.

After being approached by the same group to help resolve the problems in their party, and having put forth a set of resolutions that would have placed the BMD on a path to finding a lasting political solution to its internal problems, we are naturally disappointed that the same people chose to dump the process and bolt from their party to found a new formation. While we are left wondering if they were genuine in approaching the BMD to intervene, we do not wish to be drawn into trading accusations with them.

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