BNF spin doctor must tell the truth

I received an SMS on Saturday 9 February at around one o'clock in the morning from a close friend and the contents of the message amounted to good news for me.

The leader of a controversial political party has been ousted. This leader whose lifestyle is controversial, just like his party, is none other than the BNF President Otsweletse Moupo. I however suddenly became worried, not that he has lost and not that his days in parliament are limited because he has no contribution anywhere.

When other people suggest that he will no longer pay attention to parliament proceedings due to the anxiety of loosing primaries, I am worried at the trend in which the publicity secretary of BNF seems to adopt, he denies even obvious matters of common knowlege. It is a fact that BNF is dominated by serious factionalism which the spin doctor must admit and stop misleading Batswana. he is desirous of contesting somewhere in Phikwe, what baffles my mind is whether in the unlikely event of him winning, he will continue to distort facts. please comrade bua nnete. Batswana deserve better representatives.

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