Batswana were treated to yet another spectacle in a dramatic week in opposition politics when Ndaba Gaolathe announced a new party, a day after Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) leadership proposed power sharing between warring factions of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD). Hardly 24 hours later, and as predicted, Gaolathe announced the formation of Alliance for Progressives (AP) in a packed hall at Ave Maria at Kgale View in Gaborone on Wednesday night, to a rapture of applause and ululations. The announcement came while the UDC was still awaiting the lapse of the seven days they had given the parties to give feedback to the mediation team. Now, the UDC will meet one side of the BMD on Tuesday night to chart the way forward following the Wednesday announcement by Ndaba and his followers. Ahead of the meeting where they will provide feedback on the power sharing proposal, the National Executive Committee of Sidney Pilane led faction of the BMD would have met on Monday where they planned to consider proposals from Ndaba camp, before the latter bolted out. Now that there is no need for power sharing Pilane and his team will present themselves as the legitimate BMD,…