Cameroon: Kah Wallah’s CPP Gives Condition to partake in 2018 Presidential Elections

One of Cameroon’s opposition political parties has announced that it will not be partaking in the next presidential elections in Cameroon unless a lasting solution is found for the ongoing crisis that is plaguing the two English speaking regions of Cameroon.

Edith Kah Wallah, president of the Cameroon People’s Party (CPP), made the announcement while facing the press in Bamenda recently.

Kah Wallah and other CPP officials, were in the Northwest region to take stock of the security situation therein. While in the Northwest region, she paid a visit to Batibo that has been a flashpoint of fighting between security and defense forces and fighters loyal to Anglophone separatists.

She also visited some internally displaced persons where she offered some foodstuff and also shared in their plights.

The CPP president avowed that her party was not going to be part of an election that is tailored to ensure the victory of President Paul Biya of the ruling CPDM party, even though the latter has not declared his candidacy for the elections constitutionally scheduled for 2018.

According to Edith Kah Wallah, the intention of the government to push through with the elections this year, is to tell the world that everything is okay in the country.

The CPP thus becomes the first opposition political party to announce that it will be boycotting the upcoming presidential elections because of the crisis in the two English speaking regions.

Recall that Kah Wallah, went down in history in 2011 as the first woman to challenge President Paul Biya in an election. Ever since then, she has become very vocal and has severally chided the current regime for what she calls “bad governance”.

Meanwhile, the principal opposition party in Cameroon, the Social Democratic Front party, had in one of its National Executive (NEC) meetings, declared that it was ready for all elections scheduled for this year.

And despite threats from Anglophone separatists, the party of Ni John Fru Ndi, still partook in the recent senatorial elections and succeeded to win all seats up for grabs in the Northwest region, even though its performance plummeted compared to that of the first ever senatorial elections.   

By LVV