Mayor Tanjong mocks
Fru Ndi for losing elections to CPDM in his ‘bedroom’
From Michael Ndi in
Bamenda
The crisis
rocking the SDF party leadership and councillors of Tubah council has taken a
twist for the worse with 27 of the party’s 31 councillors threatening
to resign.
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| Fru Ndi |
In a meeting
grouping the aggrieved councillors and their supporters on Monday September 8,
2014, they unanimously reaffirmed their total support to their mayor, Tanjong
Martin Meshongong, whom the party hierarchy has refused to recognise as the
legitimate mayor of the SDF -run Tubah council.
Speaking the
meeting which he convened, Mayor Tanjong expressed gratitude to the 27
councillors for defying the SDF investiture committee’s decision to re-elect
his predecessor, Stanislaus Sofa and giving him (Tanjong Martin) a whopping
votes of 27 as against 4 for his opponent.
He regretted
that despite the fact that the SDF’s slogan: “Power to the People” and
democracy prevailed during the mayoral elections in Tubah council, hierarchy
has continued to turn it back on him.
While the 27
councillors assured Mayor Tanjong of their unalloyed support, they equally
threatened that no district reorganization was going to take place in
Tubah to replace the mayor who was
recently slammed the party’s dreaded Article 8.2.
They lashed out
at the North West provincial chairman of the SDF, Hon. Evaristus Njong whom
they said, held a meeting in the Tubah council hall without the consent of
Mayor Tanjong Martin.
Briefing the
press, Mayor Tanjong Martin who said he is mayor of every body of Tubah
irrespective of their political leanings, indicted Hon. Njong Evaristus for
sowing a seed of discord in the Tubah constituency. He noted that Hon. Njong
did not in the first place, win the last legislative elections in his Njinikom
fief until votes came in from Bum and Fundong to enable him go to parliament. “And
this is the same Hon. Njong Evaristus whose 8 SDF councillors disgraced SDF in
the senatorial elections by voting rather for the CPDM senatorial list”. He
said it was rather his Tubah councillors who swell the SDF senatorial list with
100% votes.
He later took on
John Fru Ndi, who he said was humiliated in his own bedroom in Santa where the
CPDM won the municipal elections of 2013.
In what has been
seen as a determined move to disrupt the
Tubah SDF district reorganization Mayor Tanjong Martin has issued a radio
communique ; warning that no SDF meeting will hold in the council hall in
the name of reorganizing the Tubah SDF electoral district.
It should be
noted that the case of Mayor Tanjong is history repeating itself. In the last
municipal elections, the SDF slammed Article 8.2 on Mayor Mangoh Jones Tanko of
Nkambe, the late Mayor Karngong Nfor of Ndu, Mayor Chiatoh of Njinikom and
Mayor Tikanjo Stephen of Babessi including the mayor of Bafoussam I after
councillors stubbornly disrespected the investiture committee and voted them
into office.
Another mayor
who is currently at war with the SDF hierachy for disrespecting the directives
of the investiture committee is that of Kumba II. He too has been expelled from
the SDF.
This is terrible a showcase of dictatorship by the SDF hierarchy why not settle the problem amicably?. The SDF dreaded article 8.2 should be scrapped out from the constitution it is used to axed militants who are outspoken. Look at the case of Mayor Mango Jones of Nkambe he too was expelled but he stood his grounds i think the other mayors recently hit by the primitive article 8.2 will not surrender.
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