By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde
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| Tabot Lawson Bakia aka Njalla is the parliamentary candidate for Kumba central |
The MP for Meme West constituency Hon. Atinda who was said to be desperate for a second mandate, suffered a crushing defeat from Ekole Peters at the Kumba city council hall. Atinda’s unpopularity was revealed as he claimed only 10 votes as opposed 33 for Ekole Peters.
Unable to concede defeat, Atinda is said to have refused to endorse the results on claims that unknown persons were ferried in to vote.
But Senator Otte Andrew and Mayor Musima George, who supervised the election, stood their grounds and insisted the results be maintained because the election was conducted in utmost transparency.
Atinda attempted to disrupt the process when he realized that the tides were against him. Not even his political godfather, Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, was able to bail him out of the bad situation.
Ekole Peters is a retired DG of the state-run transit and forwarding company, Camtainer. A member of the permanent CPDM-CC delegation to Meme, Ekole is understood to be at odds with Justice Benjamin Itoe, who is the head of the Permanent Delegation.
Ekole’s investiture and Atinda’s defeat has therefore been interpreted by observers as a political misfortune for Benjamin Itoe, who would have preferred his protégé, Atinda to be re-invested.
Meanwhile, in Kumba Central, the section president of CPDM Meme 1A, Tabot Lawson Bakia aka Njalla, cut short his ambition to become the Mayor of Kumba 1 council, to instead vie for a seat in Parliament. Njalla walked out of the council list ceding his place to the Kumba Government Delegate, Ngoh Nkelle Victor, we gathered.
It is believed that Ngoh’s entry into the council list is because of fears of an imminent scrapping of the post of government delegate with the coming of the special status.
Tabot Lawson Bakia had an easy ride over his lone challenger, Abwa Bernard Tarkang, who is said to be the president of the Meme branch of the National Youth Council.
Tabot Lawson will have as challenger in the February election, incumbent SDF MP, Hon. Mbanya Bolivie.
Nfon Mukete against Njalla
Meanwhile, The Median got it on good authority that the Paramount Chief of the Bafaws, Senator Nfon Victor Esseminsongo Mukete, who did not support the investiture of Tabot Lawson Bakia ‘Njalla’, a non Bafaw son (though born and bred in Kumba, Tabot Njalla is an indigene of Manyu division), as Kumba’s candidate for parliament, stormed the CPDM secretariat in Yaounde to challenge the investiture results.
Nfon Mukete accompanied by his millionaire sons made frantic efforts to get the SG of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Kuete, to receive them. We learned that after waiting for long hours standing on their feet, the Paramount Chief and his ‘boys’ in utter bewilderment, reluctantly left the CPDM secretariat without seeing Jean Kuete. And this was not before the man at issue, ‘Njalla’, had attempted creating an ugly scene on the corridors of the CPDM secretariat.
Eyewitnesses said the dare-devil Njalla approached the Paramount Chief and questioned him why he had to go so low as to carry himself to the party secretariat just to frustrate a young man’s ambition. He asked Nfon Mukete why it is only today that the Chief is realizing that he (Njalla) is a non Bafaw indigene, but not when the Nfon used to assign him to delicate and often very risky jobs.
Besides, Njalla asked Nfon Mukete to show to him and the wider Kumba public the development that his sons have brought to Kumba as to be the only ones to merit elective offices in the metropolitan town. He challenged the Nfon to show the Bafaw children that he and his children have helped or salvaged from poverty with all the billions that they are understood to have.
We learned that Njalla reminded the Paramount Chief that none of his boys has built a house in Kumba and that despite being the Billionaires that they claim to be, all of the chief’s children are still living in their father’s compound and under his protection.
The Median learned, it took some workers of the CPDM secretariat to stop the ugly scene that otherwise would have been created around the Nfon at the CPDM secretariat.
We learned also that, even though the Senator Mukete was finally received by Jean Kuete at the latter’s home in Yaounde, he did not succeed to get the CPDM SG to change the result of the investitures in Meme.
It should be noted that Njalla is not the first non-Bafaw to be invested for parliament in Kumba. In 2007 Charly Enaw (another Manyu son), was invested as candidate for parliament. And even though Enaw eventually won the vote, he was later sacrificed by the CPDM regime that had to help the SDF party to have the 15 MPs needed to have a group in parliament.
It was understood that if Charly Enaw, the MP-elect for Kumba, was sacrificed to allow for Palmy Nkelle Mboe (a Bafaw indigene) to go parliament under the SDF ticket, it was simply because Enaw was bayangi and not Bafaw or Bakundu.
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