Massive resignations as CPDM and Biya celebrates

305 militants of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement including a former municipal administrator have resigned from the party. Their resignation came on the day that marks the 33rd anniversary of the accession to power of the party’s chairman President Paul Biya. In a letter addressed to the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPDM, the 305 members from the Yagoua Section in the Mayo Danay Division revealed that they could no longer tolerate tribalism which has rocked the section under the leader of Hon. Silikam Isabelle.

Some of the militants who spoke to the press on condition that their identity should be concealed said President Biya has failed and that his new agenda is focus only on keeping his kinsmen in power. The CPDM militants argued that they were at a loss to understand why Yaounde has made it completely impossible for them to change comrades Makassia Jean and Isabelle Silikam-Section and WCPM Section presidents respectively of Yagoua.

One of the many resigning, Ousmanou Yaya, noted that ever since the last parliamentary elections, the leadership of the Yagoua section has been targeting the Fulani ethnic group painting them as supporting Boko Haram. For his part, Aliou Gobio Hamadou, the former mayor of Yagoua explained that “today’s resignation is justified through deplorable findings and deficiencies related to the management of the party”.