Mohammed I. Khan

"BDP doesn’t have any independence of their minds. They are living in mental slavery under a dictatorial leadership."

"My time and energy are fully focussed on far more important matters. If I require answers I approach the Permanent Secretary or relevant officers and get my prompt answers there or at times I do engage the Ministers."

"The Leadership Forum can only recommend. What will happen is that their recommendations will be passed to the Central Committee."

"There is absolutely no way we can interfere on Moupo’s personal problems."

"There is no doubt that our President has his own personal problems. The biggest problem though is that people do not want to differentiate Moupo from the BNF."

"As Secretary General, I am against Moupo stepping down at this very important moment. That would polarize the BNF and we would go into the elections as a bruised party."

"We cannot interfere on his personal life. The leadership issue will only be addressed at the 2010 congress. We cannot afford to rock the boat more than it already has."

"This is very unfortunate. It would seem like everything in the BNF is now centered on so called Moupo issues. We have lost the direction of the party. We have to be very careful. I am beginning to suspect that some of our members are actually sponsored by BDP to create internal problems ahead of the elections."

"Let’s focus on 2009 and leave Moupo alone."