"The SDF in Tiko needs to be reborn and a new manifesto put in place"

-Joseph Bah Anib: Aspiring Chairperson of the Tiko Electoral District of the Social Democratic Front.

 Joseph Bah Anib

What do you propose as the way forward for the Tiko Electoral District?

 I am doing my own contribution to the social building process and to the Democratic transformation of our country.  What ever be the case, I have a dream for a born again SDF for the Tiko Electoral District. I expect this to spread nationwide. The SDF in Tiko needs to be reborn and  a fresh Manifesto with proposed ten points put in place. This is to let the audience know what we are talking about. One, we need a Party Secretariat for Tiko. This will be a party Monument that will represent the party and let people know that it is very strong. People can as such get to the party through the Secretariat. For more than two years now we don't have a Secretariat and I am going to embark on that. Through these years there has been a drop in party activities in Tiko when it comes to the number of members of the party. We are going to go door to door to canvas for party activities.

We are going to go to people who have been in this party but for one reason or the other dropped out. Twenty Five years after, we plan to embark on Electoral reconciliation to ensure that everybody comes back on board. This will make the party stronger than ever before. We are also going to embark on financial accountability and transparency. The truth is that all this while this has not been the case in the managing of financial affairs of the SDF in the Tiko Electoral District. Party members now don't have any idea on how finances are managed and if the party is in a deficit or surplus and how we can use this money for the betterment of the SDF.
 If today we are talking of changing Cameroon then we are talking of embezzlement and accountability and I think that we should be pace setters. We shouldn't be saying one thing and then doing the other.  We also have to think of bringing women and youth in party activities. This to ensure that party activities get stronger. This will permit the party to become vibrant again.

Why do you think the internal elections of the party got postponed? 

The incumbent is making things very difficult for the party. The first thing is that the decision for the electoral process was supposed to have been reached at through consensus.. A central place could have been chosen for us to assemble for the purpose. Its unfortunate that the incumbent had to carry the event to Misselele; a place which is neither accessible nor accommodating. He put some few canopies in an open field and brought in 41 ballot boxes. I saw that this was not the spirit of Democracy since peopled were ferried in from else where. With all these irregularities, we saw that the field was not level. It was therefore deemed necessary that things be put straight before the elections are retaken. Delegates should be known and a comfortable place has to be selected and then we should pursue with the elections and who ever wins will be accepted; that's democracy. While we move to the party hierarchy to look for a new date for the elections, I will like to say that on the ground, we are ready. We only need the field to be level for democracy to prevail.

Do you think Democracy has prevailed so far within the SDF and the Tiko Electoral District?


The SDF preaches the Division of power as against the accumulation of functions. The incumbent District Chairman is also Mayor and people are saying that he should relinquish the position of Chairman of the Electoral District. From every indication he wants to accumulate everything and I don't think that's the true spirit of a democrat.

What do you think will guarantee the future stability of the SDF within the Tiko Electoral District?

The future of SDF in the Tiko Electoral District lies in our being together. The party should also be aware that things are no longer like in the nineties. Things have changed. So I think if we can accept these changes within the ranks of the party, we will tackle the political challenges before us. If we don't realise and implement this, then the party will remain at a stand still. In SDF we should look at the future of the party and not at personal interests. No matter the challenges I am passing through I am going to stand firm for the party.       


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