The Fall of AGBOR TABI

AGBOR TABI'S FALL

For some personal reason, I didn't want to publicly comment on the demise of Agbor Tabi. However, I've had to change my mind given unending private and public calls for comments. These calls are legitimate especially as the deceased and myself clashed in Manyu twice at the 2011 and 2013 presidential and twin (parliamentary and council) elections respectively.

I was one of the youngest parliamentary candidate at the 2013 polls in Manyu. Prior to the election, I'd bulldozed through villages and hosted PAP flags, converted CPDM die-hearts to PAP. My youthful energy was contageous. Tens of thousands of young people and women lined up behind my vision, "Manyu Metamorphosis". This got Agbor Tabi and his CPDM men panic-stricken. And a not-too-distant relative of the Akosons had confided in me that Agbor Tabi had sought a secret plan to "kill that young man trying to disturb us".

I don't want to go touch on sensitive issues but if I must heed to popular demand to comment, I summarise the two sides of the Agbor Tabi story:

1. He was a man who fought long and hard to see his division of origin imprint on the Cameroonian triangle. Although he elbowed his fellow Manyu brethren from overtaking him, as a Manyu son, I applaud his love for Manyu.

2. He was one of the sheepish disciples of president Biya's despicable regime who, amongst others presided over a country that has become a laughing stock in the eyes of the international community. Posterity will remember him as one of those men who caused Cameroon move hundreds of years back. His discipleship was primordially for selfish aggrandisement. Nature caught up with him, thus preventing him from achieving his greatest dream of becoming the PM.

These two sides of his lifetime story do not cancel but complete each other.

We need to note that there always will be some who will miss him but unfortunately, others will just not! That is life and it will happen to you and me.

May his soul rest in peace.

Akoson A. Raymond,
PAP Secretary General

 

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"…Time has come, I believe, for our leaders to start training the youths to take over the baton. Effective, efficient and rigorous training does not constitute issuing subservient roles; rather, it involves sitting side by side on the round table for law, policy and decision making and thorough brainstorming on the normative values that undergird progressive issues. Ayah Paul of PAP takes great pleasure in working with the youths. I am proud to work with him..." Akoson A. Raymond.

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