Masisi's legitimacy case before court

Kamal Jacobs PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Kamal Jacobs PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) says the application by its member Kamal Jacobs filed before the High Court challenging the legitimacy of Mokgweetsi Masisi as party president is incurably defective for want of urgency.

The party says the reasons advanced as “substantiating urgency do not pass muster”. 

This came after Jacobs made an application to court stating that Masisi does not have powers to appoint any party structure. Jacobs who lost BDP primaries to Dr Thapelo Matsheka for the Lobatse constituency said that Masisi’s legitimacy to the BDP presidency is questionable. 

Editor's Comment
Judicial Independence must be respected

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