Nagafela may bounce back

BAME PIET
Staff Writer | Wednesday January 9, 2013 00:00

 

The Botswana National Front (BNF) will hold a constituency meeting in Takatokwane Village on Saturday the 19th to decide who should represent the party in the by-election. However, indications are that the former MP Filbert Nagafela who lost to Motowane by 34 votes to his 3,826 during the 2009 general election is the likely candidate. Only BNF and BDP fielded candidates then.

In an interview yesterday, Nagafela would not confirm his intentions to stand for the constituency, saying the general membership will decide the way forward. 'There is a meeting for the general membership in two weeks' time and it will decide who should stand.

That's when I will be able to discuss the matter,' he said. He confirmed that he harboured ambitions to stand for the constituency in the 2014 general election. Meanwhile, the BNF spokesperson Moeti Mohwasa could not be reached for comment yesterday as his mobile phone was off air.

There are indications that the BDP is likely to field Letlhakeng Sub District Council chairperson Tshoganetso Leuwe, who had earlier revealed his intentions to take on Motowane during the party primaries sometime this year.

Leuwe stated that he has no intentions whatsoever to stand for the forthcoming by-elections nor does he intend to stand for the 2014 general elections. He said that Motowane persuaded him to stand but he is not interested, and has not made an application to the BDP about his intentions to stand for 2014 by-elections. 'I have received calls from fellow BDP colleagues requesting me to stand but I am not interested.

Even Motowane tried to persuade me to stand for the seat but I am not going to stand, even for the council seat.I'm leaving politics,' he said.  The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is almost non-existent in the Letlhakeng Constituency.