By Chris Mbunwe
CameroonPostline.com -- SDF National Chairman, John Fru Ndi, has said despite desperate attempts by President Biya to kill the party, it is still waxing strong. Fru Ndi said the party has put in place an alternative government and programmes to bring Cameroonians out of misery.
Fru Ndi: SDF Chairman
"If I were so gullible like some of my Mayors and Parliamentarians, we could have long joined Government. I could have fought and entered parliament; that could have announced the end of the SDF. Where are the other political parties that joined Government some years back?
What have these people of bad faith not proposed to me within these 22 years? I have remained resolute that SDF will take over this country and execute its programme, not to join Biya," the SDF Chair said. He made the statement while addressing the executive of the Baibo Electoral District of the SDF who came to congratulate him on his re-election at his Ntarinkon residence last weekend.
He praised Batibo militants for graduating from politics of vengeance, which he said was characterised by self-destruction and rancour. Fru Ndi advised them to close ranks and get every potential voter registered. Appealing to his militants to be vigilant, Fru Ndi warned any Fons of Batibo who use their belonging to the CPDM Central Committee to frustrate civil servants who militate in the SDF, to desist or they will be exposed.
"Hungry Fons have desecrated their thrones and are prepared to grab any franc and shout that they are behind Biya," he said. He wondered where the dignity of the Fons have gone to when Fons today shake hands easily with women and can be seen everywhere at occasions fighting over food with commoners. Fru Ndi suggested that traditional institutions should be revised else the worst that is still to come will be too soon.
Earlier, the Batibo Electoral District Chairman, Maurice Werewum Mbah, told Fru Ndi that they are solidly behind him, because, according to them, he is a leader of a political party that remains a source of hope to Cameroonians. He said due to the dynamism and the open-door policy of the leadership of the SDF in Batibo, young people, elites and civil servants keep joining the party.
"It is due to the swelling of our ranks by this influential class of people that the panic-stricken and confused leadership of the collapsing CPDM in Batibo have resorted to intimidation and transfer tactics, which were used in the 90s. Their intention is to frustrate committed militants and discourage especially civil servants from militating in the SDF party," Werewum said.
First published in The Post print edition no 01393
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