{"id":4111,"date":"2022-03-19T10:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc"},"modified":"2022-03-19T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:06:11","slug":"bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc","title":{"rendered":"Bophirima Ward elections Spark discord in UDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is ready to account for itself in any disciplinary action that may be taken against the party by the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) for nominating Peter Mogapi as a candidate for Bophirima Ward outside of the coalition banner, the Secretary General of the BCP, Goretetse Kekgonegile, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not live in fear of the consequences of our actions and will not sit and watch while our principles are violated,\u201d Kekgonegile said at a press conference in Gaborone this week. \u201cWe have no intention of quitting the UDC though. The decision to nominate Mankie Sekete was solely made by the BNF without consulting with other partners. This came after the withdrawal of the Alliance for Progressives (AP) in the bid for the ward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere must be give-and-take within the opposition cooperation forum. We gave away Tamasane Ward, and compromised on Metsimotlhabe. Mankie Sekete is not a UDC candidate but belongs to the Botswana National Front (BNF) and is standing for the elections on behalf of the BNF.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the BCP, the party was assigned to manage Bophirima Ward in the 2019 general elections and is therefore entitled to decide on the candidate to contest on behalf of the UDC. A weekend statement from the BCP over the weekend stated: \u201cWe acceded to a request for Mankie Sekete to run in Bophirima Ward following her defection from the BMD to the BNF and as a (form of) courtesy, she was a nominated councillor.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the press conference on Monday, Kekgonegile accused the president of the UDC Advocate Duma Boko, of running the coalition without consultation with member-parties, hence the UDC is struggling with fundamental governance issues. \u201cThe UDC president has not been present at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings since the NEC meeting held at Palapye in July 2021,\u201d he said. \u201cOnly Justine Hunyepa from the BNF attended the last NEC meeting in January this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council bye-elections for Bophirima Ward come after the death of the incumbent Councillor Kagiso Mongwaketse on 12 January 2022.
\nMeanwhile the mouthpiece of the UDC, Moeti Mohwasa, has described the relationship between the BNF and the BCP as \u201cfine\u201d and dismissed allegations by the BCP as untrue. \u201cThese allegations are not new. Maybe it\u2019s a Goebbels approach: Say untruths continuously until people believe it is the truth,\u201d Mohwasa said, referencing the chief propagandist of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi party Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n

In other UDC news, Mohwasa says the issue of whether the coalition will hold a congress or not will be looked at later after talks with other parties have been concluded. \u201cThe UDC affiliates are currently working on drafts to submit to the NEC to have a new constitution,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Botswana. The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is ready to account for itself in any disciplinary action that may be taken against the party by the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) for nominating Peter Mogapi as a candidate for Bophirima Ward outside of the coalition banner, the Secretary General of the BCP, Goretetse Kekgonegile, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nBophirima Ward elections Spark discord in UDC - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is ready to account for itself in any disciplinary action that may be taken against th ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bophirima Ward elections Spark discord in UDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is ready to account for itself in any disciplinary action that may be taken against th ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-19T10:49:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-19T14:06:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-6235e33e94f5f.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bophirima Ward elections Spark discord in UDC\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-19T10:49:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-19T14:06:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\"},\"wordCount\":475,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/03\/img-6235e33e94f5f.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bophirima-ward-elections-spark-discord-in-udc\",\"name\":\"Bophirima Ward elections Spark discord in UDC - 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