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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Parties meet as Cameroon counts ballots |
| 2011-10-19 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Seven of the 22 opposition candidates in the October 9 presidential election met at the residence of SDF candidate John Fru Ndi to fine-tune a joint strategy to fight against any Biya victory that may be proclaimed by the Supreme Court. The meeting that lasted eight hours brought together, besides Mr Fru Ndi, Mr Albert Dzongang of La Dynamique, Mr Bernard Achuo Muna of APF, Dr Adamu Ndam Njoya of the CDU, Edith Kah Wallah of the CPP, Jean de Dieu Momo of PADDEC and Esther Dang of BRIC. Welcoming his colleagues in his Yaounde residence, Mr Fru Ndi called for sincerity adding that his colleagues should not negotiate their entry into government as some opposition party leaders did after the 2004 presidential election. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... the ruling CPDM party has withdrawn its request for the annulment of the presidential election results in Mezam Division which it filed at the Supreme Court. A very reliable source at the CPDM secretariat in Tsinga, Yaounde told this news hound that the decision to withdraw the request was made "after a very acrimonious meeting" of senior members of President Paul Biya's campaign team. The source revealed that the suit was filed by a CPDM turban without prior consultation with the hierarchy of the party led by Mr Biya. According to our source, some school of thought in the ruling party was of the strong opinion that if the Supreme Court were to validate the request of the CPDM, this might spark off violent protests in the Northwest which may spread to other parts of the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |