POST INVESTITURE PERIOD WITHIN THE SDF
Like many other political parties, choosing candidates for
upcoming elections is always the duty of a special committee. The investiture
committee as it is called in most cases has been at the center of so many
controversies as at times clearly qualified candidates are shaved for less
qualified ones. In an effort to give democracy its true meaning the most
populous opposition party the SDF is seemingly suffering the highest number of
casualties as a result of the investiture. After being invested by the party,
the candidate as usual continues the process of candidacy declaration with the
submission of required documents at election Cameroon offices. Though the
period between the closure of the investiture and the deadline for submission
of documents is always very close, none invested candidates always use the
shortest time possible to protest or appeal their rejection.
In the 23yrs history of Ni John’s party never has the quest
for positions been so highly contested even by very close friends and supposed
dedicated militants of the party like this 2013 with several reasons put
forward.
While the people of Nkum in Bui Division protested the
investment of a candidate who to them did not win the primaries, those of Nkwen
protested a candidate who made it at the primaries but from the peoples
judgment the said candidate could not represent the development interest of the
Nkwen people reading from previous activities of this candidate.
For the national Chairman of the SDF Ni John Fru Ndi to have
driven down to Fundong in a bid to resolve candidacy crisis speaks volumes. The
particularity of this area is based on political history, the thwarting of
people’s wishes, the desire to continuously whole on to power by whatever
means, greed, misuse of power, lies telling, political manipulation, and so on.
As the present 8th
legislature comes to an end seating Mps in Boyo are still representing
Belo/Njinikom and Fundong/Bum. These too parliamentary constituencies have Belo
and Fundong as the most populated areas with Njinikom and Bum as the smallest.
If not for the above mentioned vices one will not imagine that a right thinking
political party will choose candidates for parliament with none coming from the
divisional head quarters which even prides its self with the highest population
in the entire Division.