SDF’s Fritz Etoke Takes L’be, Tiko by Storm

-Urges CPDM militants to sanction their party and its leaders for failing to deliver on their election promises
By Ticha Melanis in Limbe

SDF Parliamentary candidate  Fritz Etoke

Ever since the curtains were flung open for election campaigns to begin in Fako in general and Limbe in particular, the battle lines for who of the SDF or the CPDM to have supremacy and control in the division were immediately drawn.
    It was with this in mind that the SDF party’s candidates for the twin elections launched their campaign in Fako, with a vow to take over control of the division from the grip of the ruling CPDM.
    Launching the SDF campaigns in Limbe last week, the party’s parliamentary candidates for Fako East constituency, Muyuka, Tiko, Limbe, Hon. Fritz Etoke and Emma Nanyongo Lebaga called for a man-to-man, proximity campaign.
    Moving through the markets and streets of Limbe, Fritz Etoke who only recently, decamped from the CPDM to the SDF, told an unenthusiastic and sparse crowd of persons that bothered to listen to him that he has come with a message for the people of Limbe which is for them to pass a sanction vote the current political leaders of the Opec City, who are all of the CPDM party.
    Etoke advised CPDM militants to give their support to the SDF which is the only veritable alternative for the development of Fako division and Limbe in particular.
    The hopeful second mandate parliamentarian, called on the youths who are still in the bushes with arms to come out and embrace normal lives, arguing that there is no future in the bushes.
    Explaining why he decamped from the CPDM, Hon. Fritz Etoke said he could not stay in a party that does not give the room for the youths to grow and blossom. He said all throughout his mandate as MP under the CPDM banner, he was the target of all kinds of threats and victimization from some persons who think the CPDM belongs only to them in Fako.

    Etoke said he suffered victimization and death threats from CPDM colleagues despite his efforts to bring development and alleviate poverty in his constituency through scholarship schemes, building of classrooms, donation of benches to schools, building of bridges to connect enclave localities, organizing sports competitions among others.
    Castigating CPDM (chop people dem money) as a careless and reckless party that has no time for the population, Fritz Etoke beckoned the Limbe population to find an alternative in the SDF that has their aspirations at heart.
    For her part, Emma Nanyongo Lebaga said she took the decision to run for parliament because she has the people of Limbe at heart and she wants to have a platform to give solutions to their day-to-day problems. She said she chose the markets for her campaigns because market women are always sidelined in decision making processes in society, in spite of their numbers and contribution to nation building.
    The regional chairman of the SDF for the SW, Elundu Joseph, called on the population to come out massively on 9 February and vote for change by casting their votes for SDF candidates.
    After Limbe, the SDF campaign train moved to Tiko to re-enact the same campaign ritual.