Swapo will never rule Aminuis – Nudo

GOBABISNAMPA The battle for political dominance in the Omaheke Region's Aminuis Constituency continues between the constituency's main political rivals, Swapo and the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo), in the run-up to the 2014 polls. The Nudo constituency leadership has come out guns blazing against an earlier Nampa report about Swapo's intention of taking over Aminuis in next year's general elections. The report quoted the Swapo leader assigned to the Omaheke Region, Dr Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, as saying Swapo will win the Aminuis Constituency next year. He was speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of a new party office at Aminuis last week. In a media statement issued on Friday, Nudo's Aminuis branch secretary for information, Sagarias Komeheke, said Nudo would not sit idle and watch Aminuis fall to the ruling party. He said the party's "machinery" is in top gear, mobilising its members to go to the polls in order to ensure that Swapo's intention to claim the constituency becomes a pipe dream. "The Nudo branch executive wishes to assure Swapo and any other political party which has aspirations to capture the Aminuis Constituency at the ballot box, that Nudo is going to give them a great run for their money and still beat them handsomely come any elections now and in the foreseeable future," the statement reads. The party also took strong exception to reports that paid-up Nudo members in the Aminuis Constituency are "hibernating" in Swapo, saying that it was in fact a "tiny group of troublemakers that left Nudo for Swapo" who are now at the forefront of dividing Swapo in Aminuis. According to Komeheke, this group aspires to unseat old party cadres in the constituency for their own gain, which was apparently not received well by Swapo old guards at Aminuis. He said the divisions within the rank and file of the Swapo Party in Aminuis was glaringly clear during the "so-called groundbreaking ceremony a week ago", as the event was apparently marred by the absence of Swapo cadres. Komeheke said Aminuis will remain under the leadership of Nudo for many years to come, given the party's support base in the region. "Nudo reiterates that Dr Ernst [Ngarikutuke] Tjiriange's ghost will maybe witness that day and he will turn in his grave 20 years down the line as he will be no more when that miracle he and his peers are having nightmares of, ever happens. That miracle will simply not happen during his lifetime and in the lifetime of many others," the statement reads. Aminuis and Otjinene are Nudo's strongholds in the Omaheke Region, and the party is yet to lose an election in these constituencies. But the ruling party has made considerable inroads into the regional leadership, claiming the remaining five constituencies in the Omaheke Region.