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WINDHOEK/EENHANA —Swapo’s vice president, and the presidential contender in the upcoming elections, Hage Geingob, says he is confident of victory in the general and presidential elections that would take place next month.
“I was watching TV the other day and (DTA president and presidential candidate) McHenry Venaani was saying that they are fighting to become the country’s official opposition, this means he has accepted defeat already.
“As for (Rally for Democracy and Progress presidential candidate Hidipo) Hamutenya, he has always been my number two and it will remain that way,” said an ecstatic Geingob, taking a jab at Venaani and Hamutenya, at the party headquarters in Windhoek immediately after receiving donations of a luxurious campaign bus from a local company.
“I do not want other groupings to surrender already, but you ain’t seen nothing yet from Swapo, more is coming,” said Geingob.
In another development, Geingob also said Swapo has delivered and that the party will not indulge in merely promising what it is going to do should the party win the presidential election scheduled for November 28.
“We are saying that we delivered a long time ago and there is freedom — freedom of speech, press, expression. We promised to be our own liberators after independence and we have achieved that,” said Geingob at a rally in Eenhana over the weekend.
Addressing hundreds of Swapo supporters, Geingob said those who do not recognise the efforts made by the party are liars and dishonest.
“We cannot deny that there are no problems, the problems are there,” said Geingob, adding they would be fixed as part of the national development programme.
Geingob said Swapo would declare a war against the still on-going problems of poverty and homelessness during the phase of economic emancipation.
“Those who do not have a house, children taught under trees, people sleeping with hunger, that is the war we declare in the second phase,” said Geingob.
He said Swapo would continue to empower business personalities by providing a conducive environment to enable those who have the ability to work and feed themselves to help themselves and assist in the fight for economic emancipation and developing the country.
“We use your tax money to build schools, clinics and for infrastructural development,” said Geingob.
He condemned tribalism and was content with the number of people who had come to the rally saying: “You didn’t say the guy is Damara, you came out in numbers.”
Geingob also invited those who had left the party or were “misled”, to rejoin the party, adding that they will be welcomed back. — New Era.
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