{"id":415178,"date":"2011-05-02T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/incumbent-bd-president-msofe-undecided-on-polls\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:38:17","slug":"incumbent-bd-president-msofe-undecided-on-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/incumbent-bd-president-msofe-undecided-on-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent BD President Msofe Undecided On Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21.3586417398\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n<p>30 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Dar Es Salaam \u2014 With only two weeks to go before Basketball Dar es Salaam (BD) general election takes place, incumbent president Simon Msofe is yet to declare his candidature.<\/p>\n<p>Msofe, who has been the BD president since 2003, confirmed yesterday that he has not collected nomination form for the polls. Much earlier, he was the body&#8217;s publicity secretary.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the longest serving persons in the BD. He first came into leadership in 1997 as the body&#8217;s secretary general. In 1999, he successfully sought re-election before being elected the association&#8217;s publicity secretary in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he was elected the BD president after the entire executive committee of DB, including chairman Jackson Kalikumtima, opted to call it quits and seek elections in the Basketball Association of Tanzania (BATA)- now Tanzania Basketball Federation (TBF).(Majuto Omary)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105021703.html\" title=\"Incumbent BD President Msofe Undecided On Polls\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incumbent BD President Msofe Undecided On Polls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) 30 April 2011 Dar Es Salaam \u2014 With only two weeks to go before Basketball Dar es Salaam (BD) general election takes place, incumbent president Simon Msofe is yet to declare his candidature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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