{"id":41106,"date":"2023-03-13T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-nnn-swapos-sole-candidate"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:34:06","slug":"geingob-nnn-swapos-sole-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-nnn-swapos-sole-candidate","title":{"rendered":"Geingob: NNN Swapo\u2019s sole candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Swapo leader Hage Geingob says his deputy, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is the ruling party\u2019s sole candidate at next year\u2019s general elections, quashing doubts the party is still undecided in that regard.<\/p>\n

Geingob said this on Saturday during the opening of a central committee meeting, which lasted for over eight hours.<\/p>\n

On the day, he set the tone by saying the party will use everything at its disposal to ensure that Nandi-Ndaitwah succeeds him. \u201cWe are going to have one candidate only when time comes. That will be comrade Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. So, let\u2019s stop the rumours, dreams and fears and so on. The time is not here yet. The appropriate time [will come]. And we will campaign because it\u2019s Swapo at stake. There are a lot of things at stake. Swapo and the country,\u201d Geingob said to rapturous CC applause. The contest, he said, is over.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have processes, systems and institutions, it\u2019s not [about] an individual. It\u2019s a question of our party and country. Therefore, we have a person who will lead us, supported by all of us, whether you were opposed to [her]… that\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s democracy. You have the right to oppose, disagree or condemn a person. But when that person is elected, that\u2019s why I kept on saying, don\u2019t play the person, play the ball. When the game is over, you kick the ball away,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Geingob\u2019s remarks come at a time when talk is rife in Swapo corridors that \u201cmoonlighters have gone into overdrive\u201d, concocting plans to ensure that Nandi-Ndaitwah, or NNN as she is affectionately known, is challenged and dethroned from the Swapo vice presidency next year through an extraordinary congress.<\/p>\n

Geingob, however, is adamant that the international relations\u2019 minister is the ruling party\u2019s one and only candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s over, it\u2019s over. I hope we don\u2019t go and have factions from now on. I\u2019ve been hearing it still. It\u2019s over. We have elected candidates. When the time comes, we will properly campaign for her. We will do the campaign, some of us, so that she is elected on behalf of Swapo,\u201d Geingob implored the rank and file. The Swapo president\u2019s affirmation effectively means Nandi-Ndaitwah will become Swapo\u2019s poster child, as the former liberation organisation will attempt to reclaim its glory days on the ticket of integrity, accountability and anti-corruption.<\/p>\n

At a watershed congress last year, she defeated prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and environment minister Pohamba Shifeta to retain the Swapo vice presidency.<\/p>\n

Secretaries<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s meeting also elected Swapo office-bearers and party representatives at legislative and government levels.<\/p>\n

Information minister Peya Mushelenga was elected as secretary for external relations, while deputy works minister Veikko Nekundi will serve as secretary for defence.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, deputy gender equality minister Bernadette Jagger was elected as secretary for economic affairs after seeing off competition from former Cabinet minister Alpheus !Naruseb.<\/p>\n

Modestus Amutse (labour), Lucia Witbooi (education, culture and sport), Kornelia Shilunga (health and social services), Pohamba Shifeta (legal), Erastus Uutoni (transport), Jenelly Matundu (environmental affairs), Laura McLeod-Katjirua (agriculture, water and food security) and Verna Sinimbo (housing, sanitation and rural development) were elected as secretaries by acclamation.<\/p>\n

From the legal fraternity, Wise Immanuel presided over the elections.<\/p>\n

Two centres of power<\/p>\n

Recently, local media reported on an apparent rift between Geingob and Nandi-Ndaitwah. The latter, according to a report by The Namibian, declined a prime ministerial position, instead preferring a position as the country\u2019s vice president to seemingly contest the perceived two centres of power which currently exist within the party.<\/p>\n

In Swapo\u2019s diction, two centres of power refer to a situation whereby the positions of Head of State and the Swapo president are held by two different individuals. This issue was a notable topic of discussion that dominated the ruling party\u2019s discourse before Geingob took over as party leader in 2015.<\/p>\n

In September last year, Geingob indicated his intention to step down as party leader before the 2024 general elections to allow whoever is Swapo vice president to take<\/p>\n

charge of the party. This deal was brokered when both the politburo and central committee allowed him to run unopposed at last year\u2019s intra-party elections.<\/p>\n

However, Geingob would make a shock U-turn, announcing he will remain as party president until the end of his term.<\/p>\n

Opposing this stance, Nandi-Ndaitwah\u2019s supporters believe by virtue of the position she holds in Swapo, she deserves to be appointed as the country\u2019s vice president. This, they argue, would instill uniformity at both party and State levels.<\/p>\n

As Head of State, Geingob is empowered to appoint the vice president. Current vice president Nangolo Mbumba and Geingob have been inseparable for years. And, it remains unclear if Geingob is prepared to remove his close political ally and long-time friend for internal party stability.<\/p>\n

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