The Alliance of
Progressive Forces (APF) has recorded another set back in the constituency of
the founder and national chairman,
Barrister Ben Muna ; following the resignation of the pioneer lone APF
municipal councillor in the country, Tayong Jacob Akum.
Ben Muna |
Tayong Jacob, an
agriculture technician, tabled his resignation letter on September 8, 2014.
According to the one-page resignation letter forwarded to the APF national
chairman, he stressed that: “I am by this short notice, informing you
(Barrister Ben Muna) through all the party organs that from the date of this
signature I, the under signed, Tayong Jacob Akum has resigned from the APF
party”. He said his resignation was personal regretting the inconvenience
caused.
In a press
briefing in Bamenda that followed his resignation from the APF, Tayong Jacob
disclosed that he was already a militant of the National Union for Democracy
and Progress, NUDP of Minister Bello Bouba Maigari. Hear him: “I have contacted
my supporters before taking such a decision and they were all unanimous that
with APF, they would be leading to no where since Barrister Ben Muna has
politely signed his exit from the Cameroon political landscape”.
Tayong Jacob is
the second political figure to quit APF in Ben Muna’s Mbengwi constituency. He
followed one Mudoh Walters who crossed carpet from APF to UNDP during the
September 2013 elections in Batibo.
On a one-on-one
with Mudoh Walters who is currently the chairman of the UNDP adhoc committee
for Momo reorganization, he said he left APF in 2013 and was list leader for
UNDP municipal elections in 2013.
According to
him, “UNDP in Momo is coming to neutralize other political parties like the
APF, CPDM and SDF which are still led by old guards that have stubbornly
refused to give way or accept the opinion of the younger generation in decision
– making of the country”.
He observed that
with a 30-year old national president of the NUDP youth wing, Ndansi Elvis
coming from the North West region and proving his worth in politics, the party
is today waxing strong in Momo division and will equally extend through out the
nooks and crannies of the entire region of the North West.
I can now confirm the rational behind this saying "politics is a dirty game". When the personal interest of a militant in a party is threatened he is bound to resign that is politics in Cameroon, politics of the stomach.
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