{"id":80450,"date":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/udf-unhappy-with-garoebs-public-support-for-nandi-ndaitwah"},"modified":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:04:00","slug":"udf-unhappy-with-garoebs-public-support-for-nandi-ndaitwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/udf-unhappy-with-garoebs-public-support-for-nandi-ndaitwah","title":{"rendered":"UDF unhappy with\/\/Garo\u00ebb\u2019s public support for Nandi-Ndaitwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>United Democratic Front (UDF) national spokesperson Mabasen Narib has expressed dismay over the party\u2019s founding father\u2019s endorsement of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as his preferred presidential candidate.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Narib, in a statement released yesterday, says Justus \/\/Garoe\u0308b has urged the Damara community to support Swapo\u2019s presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have learned with great dismay that our founding father of the UDF party, Gaob \/\/Garoe\u0308b, has endorsed Nandi-Ndaitwah as his preferred presidential candidate. He has done his best to persuade the Damara community to support his choice in the upcoming presidential elections,\u201d Narib says.<\/p>\n<p>Narib says \/\/Garoe\u0308b made these remarks at the Damaran Gaob Festival at Okombahe last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Hendrik Gaobaeb and the entire UDF leadership would like to officially distance the party from the statement made by Gaob \/\/Garoe\u0308b. We believe a traditional leader should remain neutral and refrain from political involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Gaobaeb would like to set the record straight: the UDF Party has its own presidential candidate and will not endorse any other candidate. All ground forces and party members are urged to ensure that our people are well informed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\/\/Garoe\u0308b spoke in his personal capacity, and his decision to endorse and rally support for Nandi-Ndaitwah is not supported by the UDF party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll UDF members are encouraged to remain vigilant and to continue mobilising support for Hendrik Gaobaeb in his bid to become the head of state. He is the UDF party\u2019s official presidential candidate,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/Garoe\u0308b, who served as a member of parliament in the National Assembly from 1990 to 2015, is recognised as the founding father of the UDF party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. United Democratic Front (UDF) national spokesperson Mabasen Narib has expressed dismay over the party\u2019s founding father\u2019s endorsement of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as his preferred presidential candidate. Narib, in a statement released yesterday, says Justus \/\/Garoe\u0308b has urged the Damara community to support Swapo\u2019s presidential candidate. \u201cWe have learned with great dismay that our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-80450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"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>UDF unhappy with\/\/Garo\u00ebb\u2019s public support for Nandi-Ndaitwah - Namibia<\/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\/namibia\/all-news\/udf-unhappy-with-garoebs-public-support-for-nandi-ndaitwah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UDF unhappy with\/\/Garo\u00ebb\u2019s public support for Nandi-Ndaitwah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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