President Mokgweetsi Masisi, aboard a Presidential Jet enroute to the US-Africa summit in Maputo, Mozambique was on Tuesday forced to make a U-turn mid-air upon receiving news that 65 councillors had just resigned from his party in the Central District Council to join the opposition Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF). Curiously, Vice President Slumber Tsogwane continued as Acting President for the rest of the week despite that Masisi has been back in the country since Tuesday. To some observers the disappearing act by the Head of State marks the level of crisis he is facing, which threatens his political survival at party level and at government enclave. Masisi's ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is taking a beating from a multi-pronged onslaught from the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and other smaller opposition parties BPF and the Alliance for Progressives (AP), and for the first time in history face the possibility of losing power in the October 2019 general elections. Masisi was due to attend the 12th US-Africa Business Summit at the invitation of President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique. The Business Summit, attended by other African Heads of State and Government from the region and the continent, ran from 18th to 21st…