RDP is not a political threat – Nekongo

SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary Ephraim Nekongo does not see the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) as a political threat.

He said this this week in response to recent sentiments by RDP president Mike Kavekotora about Swapo suggesting a unity government.

Kavekotora this week told a weekly news publication that Swapo is running scared of the party’s declining support, and is in favour of a political marriage with the RDP.

The RDP was founded by aggrieved former Swapo members, steered by the late Hidipo Hamutenya, who has lost his presidential bid to former president Hifikepunye Pohamba.

Nekongo on Thursday on social media said the RDP has died before it was founded.

He said the party’s “non-existent legacy is embedded in its fake character and hunger for power”.

“The people of Namibia rejected RaDoPa (RDP) for the failed project it is. It’s a shadow of its former self, whose presence cannot be noticed even by a fly, and no amount of political rhetoric can resuscitate the dead RDP,” he said.

“The ailing Mike Kavekotora, whose political conscious [sic] died with RaDoPa (RDP) as he enjoys his pension from parliament, knows very well that Swapo party is engraved in the hearts of our people, whose track record in nation building supersede any sensational quest for relevance,” he said.

Nekongo said Swapo will continue to lead Namibia “as mandated by the people of Namibia”, and with it’s ever-growing membership will resoundingly deliver the sole candidate of the party, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, as the fourth president of Namibia.