Cameroon: Social Democratic Front convenes meeting in Bamenda amid growing uneasiness

The Social Democratic Front (SDF) has issued a communiqué signed by the secretary general convening its bigwigs to a special meeting in Bamenda on Saturday 27^th May 2017.

The special executive meeting, that features among others mayors and parliamentarians, will be presided over by the national president of the party,   John Fru Ndi.

This meeting comes at a time when the atmosphere seems rather unfriendly for the party and the whole political landscape in Cameroon.

SDF, leading opposition party in Cameroon for over two decades now, championed the boycott of National Day celebrations on 20^th May.

However, the call has received bitter criticisms from the public, particularly Francophone Cameroonians. They continue to consider the move as being “very unpatriotic”, even if Fru Ndi and his party believe that it is a means of correcting the “current decaying state of our nation.” 

And more disturbingly for SDF, two of its mayors defiled the call and acted like Judas Iscariot. Mayors Fideis Balick Awa of the Bamenda II Municipality and Cletus Fongu of the Bamenda III Council were reportedly spotted among other “patriotic” Cameroonians at the National Day feast.

The disturbing attitude of these mayors from SDF followed another troubling move from the vice-president of the Cameroon People’s Party (CPP). The president of CPP, Edith Kah Walla,was reportedly shocked by a media outing by her deputiy, rejecting a previous call for a boycott of the National Day.

The vice-president had issued a communiqué through the state broadcaster CRTV, dismissing the boycott as a “unilateral” decision by the president.

Even so,  Kah Walla stood her ground and the boycott was steered towards her own desired direction.

This uneasiness on the political scene is coming up just a few months to the election season in Cameroon, precisely 2018.