The party instructed all its regional councillors to keep the current crop of Governors but the group in the Caprivi Region defied that directive.Instead, they elected Leonard Mwilima, saying that they were acting on instructions from their electorate.

Last week Swapo sent a high-level delegation of party leaders assigned to Caprivi, headed by Secretary General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana, to resolve the issue.

However the delegation failed to break the impasse as the regional councillors stood by their decision, which is legal as Mwilima was elected and sworn in in the presence of a Magistrate.

Yesterday, Ithana said the party's Central Committee strongly condemned the defiance of the party directive but accepted the outcome of Mwilima's election.

"To normalise the situation in Caprivi Region, the CC resolved to dispatch a team of two CC members to the Caprivi Region with specific terms of reference to seeking a sustainable solution to the situation and report to the Political Bureau," she said.

"Swapo has its own way of doing things in terms of regulating conduct," the Secretary General said.

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