{"id":28920,"date":"2023-05-21T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/sekata-defection-hits-lcd-hard"},"modified":"2023-05-21T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T12:32:00","slug":"sekata-defection-hits-lcd-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/sekata-defection-hits-lcd-hard","title":{"rendered":"Sekata defection hits LCD hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THE defection of Teboho Sekata could significantly weaken the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) ahead of this year\u2019s local government elections, thepost heard this week.<br \/>\nThe LCD is battling to rebuild its structures in the constituencies after the party was hit by massive defections to the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) in the run-up to last year\u2019s general election.<br \/>\nSekata, who was seen as a pivotal workhorse and an astute organiser, will be sorely missed in the LCD.<br \/>\nThe party only bagged three seats, down from the 11 it held before the polls.<br \/>\nSekata has pulled with him a sizeable number of influential party officials from several constituencies and many other ordinary members to the RFP.<br \/>\nInfluential campaigners who defected with Sekata last week include \u2019Mapalesa Thakhisi, a councillor from Hololo constituency.<br \/>\nAnother defector is Jaase Makafane who was the spokesman of the Machache constituency and was a promoter in the last 2022 national elections.<br \/>\nThe LCD has also lost Lits\u030citso Malataliana who was a candidate of Mabote constituency, and \u2019Maisaka Monyolo, a member of the women\u2019s league committee.<br \/>\nMonyolo was the women\u2019s representative in the LCD\u2019s national executive committee.<br \/>\nAnother defector is Baphuthi Mokone who chaired the LCD Youth League.<br \/>\nBakwena Moletsane, the LCD candidate for the Taung constituency, has also defected with Sekata to the RFP.<br \/>\nThey also defected with the Stadium Area constituency committee members including its secretary, deputy secretary and chairman.<br \/>\nThe chairmen of Machache and Lithabaneng constituencies have also defected with Sekata.<br \/>\nSekata had made a name for himself as an astute campaigner, not for only his \u2019Maletsunyane constituency, but for the party at large through various radio interviews he arranged.<br \/>\nWhen party leader Metsing was self-exiled in South Africa in 2017, it was Sekata who ran the show in the party, keeping the fires going.<br \/>\nHe also helped the needy in the constituencies, sinking boreholes and paying fees for destitute children.<br \/>\nIn last year\u2019s poll the DC won the \u2019Maletsunyane constituency with 1 790 votes, followed by the RFP with 989 and Sekata with 877, giving the party 16.2 percent of the total vote in the constituency.<br \/>\nSekata worked hard to sell a party that was a hard-sell.<br \/>\nOut of the 80 constituencies that were up for grabs, only 10 candidates for the LCD received over 500 votes. Metsing received 1 414 votes in his Mahobong constituency.<br \/>\nSekata told a press conference last Friday that they had lost hope that things will change in the LCD.<br \/>\n\u201cWe saw that instead of getting better they became worse; that is when we took the decision to leave,\u201d Sekata said.<br \/>\nHe said a signal that things were really bad in the party was when the national executive committee instructed him to stop helping villagers with his own resources outside his constituency.<br \/>\nSekata said the party felt that he was beginning to shine more than the leader.<br \/>\nThe LCD\u2019s spokesman Apesi Rats\u030cele said each member enjoys freedom of association and Sekata is not an exception.<br \/>\n\u201cWe all have freedom of association, Sekata joined LCD when he wanted to and now that he has joined RFP, we cannot do anything because he has freedom of association,\u201d Rats\u030cele said.<br \/>\n\u201cSekata is allowed to associate with any party he wants to,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAsked about how they take it that they lost a hard worker like Sekata, he said they are hurt because losing is never good.<br \/>\n\u201cEven if we had lost a member that did not work at all, we would still be hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. THE defection of Teboho Sekata could significantly weaken the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) ahead of this year\u2019s local government elections, thepost heard this week. The LCD is battling to rebuild its structures in the constituencies after the party was hit by massive defections to the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,246,245],"class_list":["post-28920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sekata defection hits LCD hard - Lesotho<\/title>\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\/lesotho\/all-news\/sekata-defection-hits-lcd-hard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sekata defection hits LCD hard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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