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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Lesotho\u2019s biggest political parties have hatched a grand plan to throttle the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) led by Sam Matekane. The plot was revealed by the All Basotho Convention (ABC) chairman Sam Rapapa at an election rally held in Mashai constituency last Friday.<\/p>\n

He said even if the RFP makes it into parliament, they will make sure that it would not be part of the next government. The plan, Rapapa said, is to \u201ckeep the RFP leader Sam Matekane at least as the leader of opposition, with no party to cobble up a coalition government\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said Matekane\u2019s \u201cdream of becoming a government alone is practically impossible because\u201d the ABC, the Movement for Economic Change (MEC), the Democratic Congress (DC), and the<\/p>\n

Basotho Action Party (BAP) \u201cwill gang up to sabotage him\u201d. Rapapa spoke as he appealed to ABC members not to join the RFP which he said will not form a government or be in the next coalition government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese big parties will gang up against him (Matekane) and he will not be part of the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rapapa wondered out loud why anyone would therefore want to leave the ABC to join the RFP. \u201cWe will do everything to stop Matekane from getting into the government,\u201d Rapapa said.<\/p>\n

He urged Basotho to analyse critically which parties are likely to form the next government so they vote wisely on October 7. \u201cBoth ABC and DC are likely to form a coalition government,\u201d Rapapa said. He said although he would in the past viciously attack the DC, he had since toned down after the two parties formed a coalition government in 2020.<\/p>\n

In a lighthearted moment, Rapapa compared the political landscape in Lesotho to that of a child who runs away from his home to a neighbour\u2019s house because the head of that house has arrived home with stolen wors.<\/p>\n

Rapapa said people who are claiming they are leaving the ABC because it is engulfed in conflicts are lying. Instead, he said the conflicts are in the RFP which has been battling numerous court battles as party members fight to represent the party in the general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no peace in Moruo,\u201d Rapapa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a fight that is going on in the RFP.<\/p>\n

\u201d Moruo, which means wealth, is the RFP\u2019s slogan. Rapapa urged the members to either vote for the DC or the ABC as there is peace and direction in those parties.<\/p>\n

After the election, Rapapa said they will tell Maketane to stand in the corner with his people and a few constituencies. He said Matekane is going to lead the opposition because they had discussed amongst themselves that he is a businessman and he should go back to business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave you a job to build roads, (but) you leave them with potholes and join politics,\u201d Rapapa said. He said Matekane is likely to only qualify as an MP and not a Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

The ABC secretary general, Lebohang Hlaele, however distanced himself from Rapapa\u2019s statement this week. He said the party is busy campaigning to win next month\u2019s election to form the next government and has not yet pronounced itself on any coalition deals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not planned to do anything about Matekane as the ABC National Executive Committee,\u201d Hlaele said.<\/p>\n

The ABC leader Nkaku Kabi told another rally in Thaba-Bosiu that \u201cit is still premature as to which parties we would align ourselves with after the election\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said there are some parties that had been approaching the ABC to discuss coalition possibilities but they have not sat down to decide to cobble up any coalition agreements with any of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur committee has never met any party to discuss the formation of a coalition government after the election,\u201d Kabi said. Kabi said the matter should not trigger any ruckus in the party.<\/p>\n

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