Kah Walla Calls for Opposition Boycott of Legislative, Council Elections

The Leader of opposition Cameroon People’s Party (CPP), Edith Kah Walla has warned opposition parties planning to take part in the upcoming Municipal and Parliamentary elections to reconsider their decision because they stand no chance of winning any seats giving that the same electoral laws which denied them victory in the 7 October 2018 Presidential polls will still sanction the polls.

                “There is no need taking part in an election where the winner is known in advance”, Kah Walla told Equinoxe television recently. She noted that the CPDM regime has hijacked the political system in Cameroon and no party can ever defeat them with the present laws in place.

                “Elections in Cameroon are a waste of time and resources because all those controlling the elections and declaring the results are appointees of Paul Biya and it is impossible that they go against their master who gave them their jobs.”

                She likened the situation to a football match between Cameroon and Ivory Coast. She said if both teams have to play and all the match officials including referees, delegates, organisers are from Ivory Coast, no Cameroonian would allow their country to take part in such a match which by default is already won by the host.

                The business woman turned politician warned opposition parties that insist on running in the elections not to complain afterwards because they have already been defeated by the CPDM even before the electorate is convened.

                According to her, the last October 7 Presidential election exposed how Biya and the system have hijacked the entire process and no outsider can ever unseat them.

                Kah Walla added that it would be disrespectful for opposition parties to take part in elections which they know other Cameroonians in the North West and South West Regions cannot also exercise their civic rights.

                While a place like Edea would be chosing its Mayor, Mamfe would not vote, she said. She argued that the priority of the nation and opposition parties should be the peaceful end of the war in the Anglophone Regions and a revision of the electoral laws and system in Cameroon.

                Parliamentary and Council elections which were to take place last June 2018 were postponed by 12 months.

                Everything being equal, these elections would be held this June but the big question is whether those in the conflict-plagued Anglophone Regions would be able to choose their local and parliamentary representatives.