On the SDF’s Negotiations to Join
Power
Following rumours that the SDF, which to many symbolized the only hope for a free Cameroon because of the adamant bellicose nature of its leader vis a vis the incumbent and other opposition "sell outs" was in advanced negotiations to join power, many feel the world has ended for Cameroon's struggle to be free from dictatorship, gerontocracy, kleptocracy and tribalism.
I myself do not think sharing power in itself is a bad idea. However, the SDF should
first apologize to all those militants it expelled, ostracized and blackmailed
for proposing that the party share power decades ago.
It
is our lot that we have such poor leaders. Fru Ndi may genuinely love to bring
change in Cameroon but is so dull that it took him 20 years to see that
coalition government was a must. You cannot be combating the government which
is identical to the state from outside, a reason why the CPDM easily labels SDF
events as rebellion and sent soldiers paid with our own tax money, even French
soldiers, to kill us while we were manifesting in Bamenda.
If
SDF had shared power long ago, they could have helped break the CPDM's firm
grip on decentralized state structures which the government treats like basic
organs of its party. These administrative collectivities provide the werewithal
for the CPDM to claim to be a "true national party" even as it rules
for the interest of one tribe whose members confound themselves for "le
Cameroon utile" and import their villages into Yaounde offices where they
freely parade their mother tongue in arrogant mockery of other tribes and steal
state money to build palaces for monkeys in their forest homeland which they
nevertheless flee to settle in Yaounde suburbs.
Election
rigging, all know, closely rides on the back of the almighty "civil
administrators" who are nothing other than CPDM serfs in national colours.
Fru Ndi and those his autistic advisers, who labelled as "Power Hungry
Traitors" those militants proposing that the SDF should take some
ministries and show how good they could rule, and use some of these posts as a
lever to fight election rigging, corruption and embezzlement by which CPDM
finances vote buying and its presidents holidays in Europe, police cruelty, etc, are now settling for too little too late. It
is just another woeful blunder of a chairman endowed with nothing but shouting
skills and will be a final nail in his political coffin. Why do I say this? An unarmed political movement, like a political party, thrives on militancy. Joining the CPDM now completely destroys what spirit of militancy remains in those who continued to support the SDF because of the die hard (some say foolhardy) fighting spirit of its leader (after many more intellectual minded left because they realised he was more of a nitwit).
My
hope now is that he sees how unpopular he has become so that he can lower his
ego and deign to join forces, to negotiate with other parties who wanted the
same change like him but differed in approach, and build a credible opposition,
in the hands of more dynamic youths, that has the critical mass and momentum to
take the fight against CPDM, oppression, electioneering, corruption, tribalism,
gerontocracy to where it can be won: on the streets.
He should invest all his energy in building the Republican Pact that he joined forces with the G7 of the opposition to initiate after the sham 2011 presidential elections but, for some unknown reason, lost interest mid way without any press declaration or letter to the other G7 parties. Is it because it entails a fight for which his advanced age and 20 year leadership of the SDF have sapped his enthusiasm and strength? Or had he already planned his entry into the government?
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