{"id":6038,"date":"2021-11-24T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:55:13","slug":"coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","title":{"rendered":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for allegedly disrespecting the terms of the coalition agreement and clandestinely negotiating with political parties to entice them to join the coalition.<\/b><\/p>\n

The parties are particularly aggrieved by news that Itula has been in negotiations with the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) and has already drafted a framework to join the coalition without their knowledge.<\/p>\n

LPM, which occupies two seats on the Windhoek council, failed to join the coalition after the party’s representatives abandoned the negotiations held in December last year, due to differences regarding which party needed to occupy specific positions on the council. The parties made their grievances known to Itula in a letter sent to him yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have no principle problem of any sort to work with LPM, but will not accept the dictatorial tendencies by yourself to make framework agreements without informing us [about] the content thereof and your denial in this matter is disappointing … clearly there is a motive by yourself and IPC to discredit the mayor [Amupanda],\u201d the parties said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo us, the residents of Windhoek should be central in the coalition and not personal preferences, squabbles and posturing. For these principles, we are even prepared to sit in the opposition benches. Positions are the least of our concerns,\u201d the parties said.<\/p>\n

The Windhoek coalition was formed between the IPC, the Affirmative Repositioning movement (AR) with two seats, the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) and National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo), which won one seat each.<\/p>\n

AR leader Job Amupanda leads the coalition as its first mayor until annual council elections next month. The parties in the Windhoek coalition met last week to strategise for the upcoming council election next month.<\/p>\n

Although the positions including that of mayor, deputy mayor and chairperson of the management committee were to be rotated among coalition partners, parties at last week’s meeting (apart from IPC) agreed to retain the status quo.<\/p>\n

The IPC has, however, rejected this consensus, although the party indicated that it was not putting up a candidate for the position of mayor. Sources say Itula does not want current mayor Job Amupanda to be retained because he did not conduct himself as a coalition mayor but rather advanced an AR agenda over the past 11 months.<\/p>\n

According to sources, Itula is therefore pushing for LPM to join the coalition so that one of their councillors takes over as mayor. ‘WEAK ITULA’ At a press conference yesterday, Amupanda attacked Itula for his over-involvement in the affairs of the council<\/p>\n

Amupanda was particularly unhappy with Itula’s constant restraining of IPC councillors. Amupanda also said Itula was obsessed with him, that is why the IPC leader has been overinvolved in the council. Amupanda pointed out that Itula does not have the right to determine what other parties in the coalition do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no president of the coalition. You are not the alpha and omega of the coalition. If councillors are not restrained, there are some directives to prevent councillors from participating in meetings,\u201d Amupanda said.<\/p>\n

Amupanda said he was not interested in getting into personal fights with Itula, who he described as having a \u201cweak political immune system\u201d. When contacted for comment yesterday, Itula said: \u201cWe must always respect the dignity of the aggrieved for the hurt is in their perception of deeds of others and not in the deeds\u201d.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Namibia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for allegedly disrespecting the terms of the coalition agreement and clandestinely negotiating with political parties to entice them to join the coalition. The parties are particularly aggrieved by news that Itula has been in negotiations with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10,16],"tags":[234,236,2849,233],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-coalition","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"\nCoalition partners gang up on Itula - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...\" \/>\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\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coalition partners gang up on Itula\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"559\" \/>\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=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Coalition partners gang up on Itula\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\"},\"wordCount\":588,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"coalition\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\",\"name\":\"Coalition partners gang up on Itula - Namibia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":559,\"caption\":\"Coalition partners gang up on Itula\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Coalition partners gang up on Itula\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/\",\"name\":\"Namibia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula - Namibia","description":"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula","og_description":"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","og_site_name":"Namibia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":559,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula","datePublished":"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula"},"wordCount":588,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg","keywords":["africa press","Africa Press-Namibia","coalition","namibia"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","parties","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula","name":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula - Namibia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-24T16:23:16+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-24T17:55:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"PARTIES in the Windhoek coalition have called out Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula for al ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2021\/11\/img-619e7c56cc94b.jpg","width":720,"height":559,"caption":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/coalition-partners-gang-up-on-itula#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Coalition partners gang up on Itula"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/","name":"Namibia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}