Here
is a complete reaction to the New Year Message from SDF National Chairman
By Felix Teche Nyamusa, SDF 2018
presidential hopeful (pending primaries)
The SDF national Chair John Fru Ndi
New Year speech to Cameroonians made in Bamenda 14 January 2016 failed to
exploit contemporary situation alternative democratic means for taking over the
leadership of Cameroon from the fumbling CPDM. Faced with the
progress-inhibiting posture of the ruling CPDM of President Biya that has held
hostage the SDF and other genuine opposition political parties for over
25years, the party hierarchy ought to as one of the first steps adequately gear
party structures into the change file. The wards, the electoral districts,
divisions, regions, national executives … structures of the SDF party ought to
be made to imbibe the imperative urgent rationale for change within the time
frame that culminates to general elections. Militants in circumstances like
ours in Cameroon have to know exactly the hurdles they have to grapple with to
achieve succession as obtained in other democracies. These lessons ought to be
dished formally by party leadership which has able aid initiatives primarily
from the different departments of the national executive committee (NEC)
including the shadow cabinet of the party. But Fru Ndi speech was as plain as
those we took off in the 1990s with when Cameroonians had not understood how
entrenched and determined the CPDM tyranny was and still is.
Fru Ndi failed recognizing that
national polls are at hand and governance in Cameroon still remains a one man
show – a show of the executive/President Paul Biya and that the CPDM/Biya will
do everything squandering the country’s resources and-indebt us to see that he
and his party remain in power unless we force-in separation of powers in
governance without more ado. The Cameroon constitution must be revamped
immediately to see that all the arms of government are working independent and
complimentarily as in other democracies or we resort to the Cameroon
constitution last resort – the use of force or other means sustainably to
effect change where leadership willingly refuses to address the wishes of the
lead. This as well is a derivative of charters of international organizations
Cameroon is signatory to and is (forceful eviction of dictators) what forward
looking sister Africa countries and other democracies have employed to ensure
effective succession.
The SDF is undoubtedly Cameroonians’
last hope for salvation from plunder and mismanagement and for the party
chair’s new year agenda-setting message at this time to be replete with bare
calls for action by Cameroonians as has been the case for the past 25 years
instead of efforts to effectively engage the party and eventually Cameroonians
for alteration action within specific time frames leaves much to be desired.
Comrades, there are no two ways, I think - an opposition and civil society
coalition (a rainbow coalition) to oust the ruling and ruining CPDM is
necessary! A rainbow coalition stronger than even the union of opposition
parties for change (Union for change) of the 1992 that saw the SDF presidential
candidate-cum-opposition candidate won the 1992 presidential, though victory
was confiscated is imperative. Telling Cameroonians to take their
responsibilities to bring in democracy, as Fru Ndi message intoned, has never
worked, the leadership has to be actively involved – preach the positive social
iconoclast idea to all party structures where militants will then help radiate it
to other Cameroonians.