By Boris Esono in Buea
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| CPDM Scribe, Jean Nkuete, congratulates SW CPDM senatorial candidates in advance, as Regional Torch-bearer, Mafany Musonge looks on. This was during a stop-over that Jean Kuete made in Buea Thursday to put finishing touches to the CPDM campaign |
The secretary-general of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean
Kuete, has left Buea reassured that his party will carry the day in the senatorial
polls that took place yesterday Sunday, 25 March 2018. Jean Kuete made a
stop-over in Buea Thursday to rally his troops and take the temperature of
campaigns ahead of the election. He also had occasion to give the candidates
and councilors (electors) the special message from the president of the party,
Paul Biya, who was out in China on a state visit.
Jean
Kuete’s stopover in Buea also gave him opportunity to know the CPDM candidates
in person and encourage them as they headed for the challenge that promised to
be tough.
Holding
at the Buea Mountain Hotel, the meeting with the party scribe provided occasion
for the head of the CPDM Permanent delegation to the SWR, Peter Mafany Musonge
to give a situation report of the campaigns and the preparedness of the troops
for the challenge.
Musonge
noted that despite the difficult circumstances prevailing in the region, marked
by deadly violence, hostage taking and killings, the regional campaign teams
could still go ahead with their work of convincing the electorate to vote for
the CPDM list. He reassured the party scribe judging from the work they had
done and the response from the electors Jean Kuete can return to Yaounde rest
assured that the CPDM will carry the day on 25 March.
“No election is
won in advance. But with the present crop of senatorial candidates and with the
work we have been able to do on the ground we can rest assured that the CPDM
will pass the test. We are going to win
the election because we are politically more mature, dynamic, responsible and
well grounded in the politics of the region,” Musonge said, underscoring the
important role the senate has to play in the decentralization process and why
the SW region must produce needed victory if she must accompany the head of
state in his efforts to uphold and protect the peace, development and
harmonious living together of Cameroonians.
Welcoming
the participants earlier, the host section president, David Mafany Namanga,
reminded them of the role of the party as a unifying force and the need for
them to always put party at the fore especially during trying times like this.
The
series of speeches culminated in an in camera meeting between the party scribe,
party bigwigs, candidates and electors. Nothing filtered out after the
conclave.
One of
the candidates, incumbent senator Mbella Moki Charles, expressed confidence
after the conclave that they have put every strategy in place to win the
election and bring pride, honor and joy to the population of the SW. But Mbella
noted that for that to happen they must convince the people that they will be
given priority in every action the senators will take when voted.
Senator
Mbella pledged to hinge all efforts during his second mandate to assist the
government and particularly the head of state to bring a lasting solution to
the ongoing Anglophone crisis.
“ That will
be my number one priority. The other will be to ensure that our Anglo Saxon
tenets are translated and embedded in the decentralized society that the
government strives to build in Cameroon.”
It should be recalled that Senator Mbella Moki Charles
was Mayor of Buea council for 11 years.
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