Amidst claims of unfair play in SDF

Fru Ndi says build up to Elective Convention is on course

Following pronouncements slating the National Elective Convention of the SDF for October, 2017, dissenting voices seem to be coming from some quarters within the leading opposition party. Some aspirants to elective positions have drawn attention to the fact that the National Elective Conventions cannot take place without primaries at the level of Wards and Districts.

Ni John Fru Ndi

 

Ni John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the party has however said that primaries in the party have always and will always take place. He said primaries are always organised only in wards and districts where there is more than one contender for any elective position. He said this was why primaries were not being organised in all the wards and districts.

Some voices within the party however maintain that the play ground has not been fair and that there is a pro Fru Ndi group that is set to make things exceptionally difficult for some aspirants within the party. One of such is a certain Felix Teche Nyamusa, an SDF militant in the Bamenda II District. This militant has expressed his aspirations of occupying the position of National Chairman of the party and eventually positing his candidature as Presidential aspirant for the party in the upcoming Presidential Elections. He said when his intentions were made known the awareness sparked off controversy and that his Ward Chairman one day informed him that elections had been carried out and that Ni John Fru Ndi had won.

Presenting his argument, he said the primaries of the party in the build up to the National Elective Convention billed for October had been given a very short time making it very difficult for aspirants like him to conveniently prepare and take part in the exercise. He intimated that it wasn’t normal that primaries leading to such an important exercise be given just about a week’s notice before the dead line which he said was the end of August. “Aspirants” he said “are stakeholders to the convention and decisions should be communicated to them. The Chairman and his cronies are manipulating but I will stop at nothing. This party is not a personal property. There is a lot of apathy and a serious need for change.”

One of the legal minds of the party, Barrister Njenje of Liberty Law Firm in Mutengene when met by this reporter insisted that the Social Democratic Front like any other political party in Cameroon had a constitution which was being followed to the letter. No irregularities he said had been registered and that the party and its militants were looking forward to a hitch free National Elective Convention in October. The party from its inception he said had clear objectives which were among other things to enhance good governance and create a more enabling environment for development. The party he said had never deviated from the objectives that inspired its creation.  

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