By Chibuike Nwabuko
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday arrived Gaborene to join other members of the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) to Botswana who are already on ground conducting stakeholder engagements, ahead of the country’s scheduled October 30, 2024 General Elections.
Jonathan, who announced his arrival on his verified X account, thanked the Chairperson of Botswana Independent Electoral Commission ((IEC),Hon Justice Barnabas Nyamadzabo, and his commissioners for immediately coming to brief hin and members of his team on the electoral umpire’s preparations for the elections.
Precise Post recalls that Botswana’s governing party – in power for almost six decades – is trying to pull off a trick in Wednesday’s general election by using a phrase normally associated with long-suffering opposition groups.
In its manifesto, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is calling for “change”.
“Let’s change together and build prosperity for all,” President Mokgweetsi Masisi in charge of the country since 2018 – writes in the introduction, BBC said.
It is an acknowledgement that things need to be done differently – the opposition argues that the president’s party is not in a position to do that.
Though analysts say the outcome of the election is hard to predict this time, the BDP has won handsome parliamentary majorities at the 11 elections since independence in 1966.
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