The Social
Democratic Front SDF has ordered all their parliamentarians to be back in
Parliament in November following social media claims that some of the party
Members of Parliament had resigned from parliament. The decision to have the
MPs back in Parliament is one out of the many decisions taken during a National
Executive Committee meeting in Bamenda October 28, 2017.
According to
Prof Ajagaji and Senator Tchachang Paul who addressed the Press for the
party, the MPs were elected to serve the people and could not be forced to
resign on social media. “I don’t think any member of the SDF resigned. You
don’t resign through the Social Media. They made statements which were released
at the time on Social Media within the context of the situation. The committee
meeting today has resolved that all elected officials senators, SDF
Parliamentarians in general and Mayors and all elected officials should
continue doing their work as normal because we are facing a constitutional and
institutional crisis.” Prof Ajagaji Said. According to the party, the crisis
can only be solved by a constitutional conference and only President Paul Biya
has the responsibility to convene such a conference first with “veritable,
inclusive and dynamic dialogue to resolve the problem.”
Amongst the
decisions arrived at the conclave was the postponement of the party’s
convention initially convened scheduled for October to February 2018. According
to the Party spokesperson Prof Ajagaji, the postponement is “in context of the
ongoing crisis.” “The convention would not have held simply because of the
crisis and so we have resolved today to move it to February 2018 to giv time
for the dust to settle; to give time for Cameroonians to come back to their
collective conscience and to give time for the party to work with its militants
and all its supporters.” Prof Njagaji
said.
On the over
one year old Anglophone crisis which according to the SDF started like a small
quarrel has been allowed to grow to where it is “by President Paul Biya and his
Regime.” NEC thus accuses Biya and his regime as being the creators of the
crisis. They thus call on the President Paul Biya to resolve the crisis because
according to the SDF he is responsible for what is going on now.
On the
Douala incidence that so the Party’s public demonstration or March banned, the
SDF states “we think that it is another way of saying that the regime is not
playing the cards according to the rules. The CPDM was allowed to march and the
SDF applied to march but they have not been allowed to march. So we think that
is a violation of human rights; it’s a violation of the constitution; it’s a
denial of opportunity.”
The SDF
National chairman John Fru Ndi who chaired the meeting after his opening
remarks lashed out on the media for
giving much attention to potential rival and self-proclaimed Potential Party
Chairman and Presidential aspirant Felix Teche Nyamusa.
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