Banished Ayah Paul declared persona non grata in PAP

 By Darel Ngwa in Kumba

Justice Ayah Paul Abine

The national Chairman of the People’s Action Party PAP has said that former Presidential Hopeful, Hon. Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine was not a founding member of the PAP as he claims on social media. Albert Mukwelle Ngoh says Ayah only sought refuge in the PAP after he resigned from the ruling CPDM.

                Mukwelle Ngoh made the disclosure on 14 May 2016, during an enlarged executive meeting of PAP in Kumba. The meeting brought together party officials from all over the national territory.

                Speakng on the occasion, Mukwelle Ngoh explaimedthat the PAP was founded in 1991 in Kumba by his late father, Professor Victor Mukwelle Ngoh and at no point in time was the party’s headquarters transferred to Buea, as Ayah is claims in postings on the social media.

                In what can be seen as a desperate move to discredit their former chairman and bring him to public disrepute, members of the PAP explained that when Ayah resigned from the CPDM and was politically destitute, it took over eight months of serious negotiations to co-opt him into the PAP. They said if they finally co-opted Ayah and accepted to make him their chairman it was because being a legal mind, they believed Ayah would uphold the principles that the founder of the party, who was himself a legal mind, set down for the party.

                Mukwelle Ngoh and his acolytes said it was agreed that Ayah’s mandate as national chairman would last for five years, from 22nd January 2011 to 22nd January 2016.

                Corroborating Mukwelle Ngoh’s thesis, the founding secretary of the PAP, Alphonse Ekambi Mukwelle said it is but logical that Ayah’s mandate has come to an end and that’s why he was replaced at the helm of the party on 9 March 2016.

                They said that despite all what Ayah did as a leader by imposing a constitution on them without deliberation, he alone managed the finances of the party at the detriment of the rest of the militants. “He collected grants from government worth 30MFCFA and turned his back from the other militants.” noted the secretary, who went further that Ayah was very active for the first two years of the party but soon abandoned the party after the 2011 presidential elections.

                Quizzed on the legality of the meeting and their apparent dismissal from the party by the Ayah Paul, the secretary general brandished an authorization from the DO of Kumba 1 Charles Duala Fumumbod authorizing the meeting.

                He said the Popular Action Party of Ayah Paul exists only on facebook and in Ayah’s briefcase.

                “We are committed to continue with the vision of the founding president of our party, Prof. Victor Ngoh.”

  When speaker after speaker in the meeting that took the form of a press briefing including Egbe from Manyu, Tambe Ekangaki cousin to the famous Nzo Ekangaki in Buea, Mr Takor from Mamfe and Nnoko Elad from Kumba I just like Sir Ekeng Samson from Konye and Mr Mbu Michael from Akwaya all questioned the way forward of the party after Ayah’s dismissal, the interim chairman said their primary motive now is to mobilize militants for May 20th celebration before embarking on the reorganization exercise of the party in the days ahead.

                The members condemned the barbaric acts of the Islamic sect Boko Haram and congratulated the Cameroonian soldiers for their bravery and called on militants of the party and sympathizers to get themselves registered massively in the electoral lists, saying they can only bring change through the ballot box.