2020 Municipal Election:

Amba Scare Forces Batibo Mayor To Withdraw Candidature

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde

The Mayor of SDF run Batibo Council has said he is not part of a team heading an appeal for consideration of the party’s list rejected by Elections Cameroon, ELECAM during the publication of list of political parties and candidates for the upcoming Municipal and legislative elections. Tanjoh Fridrick Tetuh in a letter he issued 16 December 2019 says his decision to resign from his position as Mayor comes after “profound reflection”.

                “After a profound reflection on my vision as a leader and considering what human life is, I have decided to resign my position in the list of the SDF for the February 2020 Municipal elections and declare that I am not part of any appeal for the reinsertion of the SDF list by the Administrative Court/ELECAM” Tanjoh’’s letter read in part.

                “When I see celebrations of joy even by close ones instead of pity over kidnap, demand for ransom and even disasters like that of the fire incident in the compound of Rt. Hon. Joseph Mbah Ndam, I am forced to ask where our values have gone to. In addition, I ask myself why all these firebrands who have been fighting for a better Anglophone course and are now being abducted here and there and those of us on permanent threatening list have become ‘big enablers’ now because of orientations of vision for the solution of the stalemate” he added.

                Tanjoh’s decision to resign as Mayor has been considered by many as fear of been attacked by Amba fighters. The Mayor has been a frontline militant of the SDF since his student days in the University of Yaoundé from 1990. He became Mayor in 2013 after serving as interim from October 2012 said his militancy and activism propelled him to different political and administrative duties, before becoming Mayor in 2013.