KETLHALEFILE MOTSHEGWA DOWNPLAYS THE UDC CONSTITUENCY SNUB

UDC man Ketlhalefile Motshegwa aka KFC was in his element at a political rally in Ramotswa on Saturday, reminding politicians especially in the opposition block, that fighting for positions in Parliament and Council should not be their priority.

Instead, he said, they should rather be focusing on regime change, adding that their ultimate satisfaction should be seeing the ruling party of 5 decades cast aside for a new dispensation.

He accused his colleagues in the opposition of delaying regime change by focusing their energies on how constituency allocations were made, saying ene he will continue working hard to see the BDP government ousted even as he was not given the opportunity to contest as an MP. Many, including himself, had expected that he would represent the UDC in Mmadinare through his party the BNF for the coming general elections, but were shocked when the constituency was handed to a BPF candidate instead, allegedly because the Ian Khama-backed BPF had taken a non-negotiating stance in demanding the constituency. He had even posted flyers showing he would be representing the UDC in Mmadinare, but when allocations were made, he was cast aside. To date, some people still feel it was unfair for the UDC leader Duma Boko to allow his own BNF Secretary General Motshegwa to be going into the next elections without a constituency, simply because he had to please the BPF patron Khama, they say. But KFC didn’t seem to be bothered, if his weekend speech was anything to go by. Magatwe a re actually, the two men, Boko and KFC, do not see eye to eye even as they are good at concealing their differences in public. Gatwe kgang ke gore KFC was not the favoured one for the position of BNF Secretary General, which he won against favoured Moeti Mohwasa at the party’s elective congress a couple of years ago.