Africa-Press – Namibia. PRESIDENT Hage Geingob this week said he will remain Swapo president until the party’s next congress in 2027.
This marks a complete U-turn from his promise to step down in 2024.
“President Geingob has since decided that he will fully serve his five-year constitutional term as the party president until the 8th congress,” presidential spokesperson Alfredo Hengari said in a media statement on Wednesday.
At the Swapo congress last month, Geingob said he would step down in 2024 to allow his successor to occupy both the party and state presidential positions.
At the time, Geingob said the party would hold an extraordinary congress to elect someone who “will hold the flag of the party high”.
This was interpreted as the president pushing for a different Swapo candidate to replace him as Swapo president, while preventing his vice, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from ascending to the presidency.
Hengari said suggestions that Geingob intended to call an extraordinary congress to block Nandi-Ndaitwah from becoming the party’s presidential candidate for the 2024 elections are a “malicious propagation of lies aimed at creating a divisive narrative within Swapo”.
He said Geingob’s mentioning of an extraordinary congress was in reference to the possibility of giving the party’s presidential powers to Nandi-Ndaitwah.
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