Mothetjoa Metsing used to be known in Lesotho as a behind-the-scenes operator, having served in the government as the Minister of Communication. That was before he triggered a bid to topple his coalition partner Tom Thabane as Prime Minister in 2014. He took the Lesotho politics by storm in 2012 when he led a group of Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) members who wanted the then Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili to cede power. He was the Secretary General of LCD and worked with the opposition to try to topple the leader of his party leader. Together with his deputy Lebohang Nts’inyi they tried to pass a motion of no confidence against Mosisili but Metsing somersaulted when he realised they didn’t have the numbers. The opposition parties wanted to pass a Motion of No Confidence against Mosisili and replace him with Metsing. The plot, however, collapsed at the eleventh hour when Metsing rejected the nomination, saying people behind the motion had not consulted him before suggesting him as Mosisili’s replacement. Metsing wrote to the then National Assembly speaker Ntlhoi Motsamai asking that his name be withdrawn from the motion. Basotho Batho Democratic Party’s Jeremane Ramathebane described Metsing as a coward. “He…