By Vincent Gunde
Visiting Botswana’s President Advocate Duma Boko, says no one can stop change saying if people wants change, let them do because they are the ones meeting everyday challenges and they can decide for their country.
President Boko said Malawi has everything to make itself rich but is lacking good leadership who can propel the country to reach that level, these are the same words of the Revolutionary leader Bantu Saunders Jumah.
Speaking at a State Banquette hosted by President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera at the Kamuzu Palace on Saturday evening, President Boko said he competed with a party that has stayed in government for 58 years in an elections held on 30th October, 2024 and it did not expect to lose the elections.
Boko said he went into that elections fighting on principle-the desire for change and his massage was simple which resonated with the majority of people supporting him and after counting of votes has started, the President called him that with the results coming in, he was poised to win the elections.
He said the President congratulated and thanked him in advance for the victory and he called him again that the results were indicating that he was on the lead and he will become the next President of Botswana.
The President said the President of the day assured him that if the results go in the way the results are indicating, he will concede defeat and he will hold a press conference to formally and publicly concede defeat.
“The President conceded defeat in full view of the media and congratulated me, the 58 year’s reign of Botswana’s Democratic Party has come to an end in a victory for the umbrella of Democratic change to begin a new chapter for the Republic of Botswana,” said Boko.
The wind of political change which started in West African countries such as Senegal, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso is blowing all over Africa, recently, Lesotho witnessed a six-month old formed political party winning the elections.
Mrs. Lizinet Mpinganjira Banda of Mtandire township in Lilongwe, has praised Botswana’s President Duma Boko of teaching President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera what it takes one to be a good leader, the leadership which is lacking in Malawi.
Mpinganjira has also praised the former Botswana’s President for accepting defeat and congratulating Boko for winning the elections claiming that this is lacking with President Chakwera who has been seen that he doesn’t want to accept defeat that Malawians have lost trust in him as their leader.
She said President Chakwera is doing everything possible to come back to power through terror which is being perpetrated by MCP youth operatives hacking and terrorizing people with dissenting voices in full view of police and MDF soldiers.
“Manual counting of votes, will see President Chakwera suffering a miserable defeat but with the Smartmatic machines, President Chakwera will bounce back into government with a landslide victory,” said Mpinganjira.
