2018 Presidential Elections: Fru Ndi Says Coalition is Joshua Osih’s Choice to Make

The National President of the prime opposition political party in Cameroon, Ni John Fru Ndi, has overtly declared that the flag bearer of his party in the upcoming presidential elections enjoys the freehand to choose the political party he wants to work with during the contention for the presidency of the nation.

Fru Ndi, made the interesting declaration in an interview with the French language newspaper Le Messager, of Friday June 22, 2018.

“We had earlier chosen our standard-bearer to allow him to negotiate with others and then report back to the party making recommendations about who or which group or party we can work on and we will endorse it,” he said.

According to the age old opponent of President Paul Biya, Joshua Osih has every chance to win the 2018 presidential election. “Only the sky will be his limit.” “My belief is motivated by the reality that in life, you have to know how to leave things unlike some who think they must cling to it all your life. We must learn in life to leave things to allow others to make their contributions,” Fru Ndi said.

He added “I am the first and only Cameroonian politician who formed a political party and refused to be a mayor, parliamentarian, leader of the parliamentary group, vice-president or senator and fight for the post of vice president in the Senate and make money. I want to let Cameroonians know that the future we want to give them is a future of hope, a future to guarantee better living conditions.”

 Fru Ndi, ended by dishing out some tactics to Joshua Osih.

"For him to succeed, the priority for him is to know the terrain, to know the population because there are some voters who can tell you that they do not like your party, that they do not like your ideology but that they sympathize with you because you met them in their base.

“I went to Moloundou, Yokadouma, I visited the bush where the pygmies live; I arrived at the Chadian border from Maroua, Yagoua and beyond. If the people know you, they will love you,” he said.

It should however be stated categorically that, the SDF has often insisted that it would not be part of any coalition in which another party other than itself, leads.

Of late, some Cameroonians have been underlining the need for opposition political parties to form a coalition strong enough to topple the regime of President Paul Biya through a ballot box.

By LVV