After Receiving his Campaign Funds:

UDP Chairman Hails Biya for Arm-Twisting Atanga Nji

By Njodzefe Nestor

Bochong El Hadj Lawan Bako

The National Chairman of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Bochong El Hadj Lawan Bako, has expressed his appreciation to President Paul Biya for arm-twisting the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji to pay his long delayed senatorial campaign funds.

                In a press outing recently at the UDP party’s headquarters at Ntarinkon in Bamenda, Bochong El Hadj Lawan Bako who is also spokesman of Cameroon’s presidential majority urged the head of state to sanction, the MINAT boss, Paul Atanga Nji, for his consistent “irresponsible acts”.

                “I want to take this opportunity to inform you that, at long last the Minister of Territorial Administration, Atanga Nji Paul, has paid the UDP campaign funds for 2018 Senatorial election without interest. It is regrettable that it has taken 8months to pay in this money into the UDP bank account on the 14th of November 2018 whereas we had long deposited our bank account number for that purpose since Mach 2018. We hereby urge the head of state to sanction Minister Atanga Nji Paul of MINAT for his irregular acts, which we describe as irresponsible acts,” Lawan Bako said.

                The UDP Chairman observed that the decision of Minister Paul Atanga Nji to withhold the UDP’s campaign money was in total violation of article 285 of the electoral code. He noted that by withholding the money, Paul Atanga Nji was executing his personal agenda instead of President Paul Biya’s agenda, which emphasizes good governance.

                Lawan Bako expressed gratitude to the Head of State, the Minister of Justice, CONAC and the entire media family for arm-twisting Atanga Nji to pay the UDP Senatorial dues.

                “You see if i was that type of person, I could have stayed quiet. But the president will never had known that the funds destined for one of the political parties that took part in the Senatorial elections had not been paid. That’s why I’m thanking the head of State very much. I also appreciate the press for all what they did. They carried it up and I also followed it up at CONAC,” Bako noted.

                He used the occasion to salute President Paul Biya’s recent decision to recruit 2000 PhD holders to enhance teaching in state universities.