ALL Basotho Convention (ABC)’s chairperson of conferences, Samuel Rapapa has left the ruling party to join the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP), arguing that the party had betrayed him.

Rapapa is a former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mosalemane constituency in Berea and represented the ABC in the general elections that have just been won by the six-month-old RFP led by business mogul, Sam Matekane.

The ruling party failed to win even a single constituency to the chagrin of its staunch supporters.

Rapapa who is also the Minister of Communications, Science, and Technology told a media briefing in Maseru on Thursday, that he felt betrayed and let down by the manner in which the ABC allocated its Proportional Representation (PR) seats in 2012 and 2022 general elections.

''In 2012, we had planned that I would be in position seven on the PR list but I was shocked to appear on number 23, and no explanation was given as to how that had happened,” he said.

This time around, he claimed he was supposed to be number three but he appeared in position 13.

“Still no explanation was given in that regard,” he said.

The ABC has eight seats in the next parliament and that means at position 13, Rapapa has been left out in the cold.

“I feel betrayed in so many ways, I have fought hard for so long for this party and have been very loyal to it and its people,” he said, adding, however, that he has nothing to show for his long loyalty.

He said he has been in the party since the very beginning but it took him ages to even be appointed to a ministerial post.