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| Ni John Fru Ndi (SDF chieftain) |
By Fai Cassian Ndi
Ni John Fru Ndi (SDF national chairman) has
declared that the negotiations between the SDF and President Biya were to guarantee
a free, fair and transparent senatorial election in Cameroon. Ni John Fru Ndi
made the state to journalists at his Ntarinkon Residence in Bamenda on April
29, 2013 after Supreme Court proclaimed the official results of the last April
14 senatorial elections in which the ruling CPDM won 56 seats and the SDF won
14 seats. Ni John Fru Ndi however regretted that the outcome of the election is
not what he negotiated for, adding that the election was marred by numerous
irregularities, including the caging of councilors as well as oath taking in
some localities. He said it is regrettable that all these malpractices took
place in the eyes of security agents, journalists and even ELECAM officials.
When quizzed whether he would accept if appointed
senator by President Paul Biya, SDF chieftain said that as a politician he
would prefer to go to the senate on the mandate of the people and not through
appointment. But yet Fru Ndi added that
if he is appointed minister, he would never accept and that if he is appointed
to any other position of responsibility he would have to think over it.
On why the SDF party had prepared a petitioned
against the conduct of the election but dropped it later, Fru Ndi reminded
journalists that he told Alexis Dipanda Mouelle that he was never going to
appear in his court for any political complain after the court failed him in
the aftermath of the 2011 presidential elections by rejecting all petitions
filed by disgruntled political parties.
Taking on those who say the SDF headquarters has
been moved from the North West to the West Region, he said that “North West
remains the stronghold of the SDF. It is not because the SDF has no senators
from the North West that people should think that the headquarters of the party
be transferred.”
However, public opinion
is still skeptical as to whether Ni John Fru Ndi told journalists was what he
agreed with President Biya before the elections. It is even alleged that Fru
Ndi might have been scammed by Paul Biya. This is so because following the
results of the polls, the SDF chieftain was instead humiliated and put to shame
in the North West Region.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and Africa
