Yesterday’s man THE ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC)’s decision to make Thomas Thabane the face of the party for next year’s general elections has been met with utter bewilderment from Basotho. The decision which was confirmed by the party’s powerful yet divided National Executive Committee (NEC) was a subtle admission that it had failed to come up with an acceptable successor to both factions. The two factions within the ABC remain bitterly divided over who should take over from Thabane. In an attempt to forestall what was likely to be a certain split, the factions have now agreed to coalesce around Thabane.