Opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is said to have hit a snag in their efforts to court Alliance for Progressives (AP) into a partnership ahead of the 2019 General Elections. BCP President Dumelang Saleshando, who has not hidden his preference to join forces with AP rather than Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), is said to have approached the leadership of the progressives to explore the possibility of a coalition. Sources within the opposition parties have revealed that after being disturbed by the political storm they are going through inside the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), BCP had approached AP for a possible coalition but the two failed to agree on some conditions. In a press briefing recently, AP President Ndaba Gaolathe said anyone who wants to work with them must approach the party elders. “So far our elders have not informed us if anyone approached them because those are the people who give us direction,” said Gaolathe, without revealing the name of any political organisation that approached them. BCP is said to be uncomfortable with the involvement of AP elders in the negotiations. When BMD split with Gaolathe and his group forming AP, BCP labelled them as hypocrites who were…