John Fru Ndi, leader of the social democratic front ( SDF) and other leaders are now facing a battle over who should lead the fight against President Biya at the next presidential election in 2011. There are persistent quotes that the leader of the SDF will call in the next coming weeks an informal meeting that will be held at his official residence in Ntarikon.
This will be the first time according to one insider that, the chairman will host a meeting at his residential-palace with others leaders that himself, after consultation with cabinet members, has selected. Fru Ndi has been under growing pressure over the past weeks by the resignation of members of the party, which critics say are inappropriate at a time that the party needs strength and solidarity ahead of the presidential elections.
The image of the party has been damaged since by the resignation of some key members who have decided to leave the party with mutual consent and to join another political movement conducted by Bernard Muna, one of the sons of the late former National Assembly president Salomon Tandem Muna.
He is now viewed as one of John Fru`s contender in the anglophone region even some political advisers in Cameroon do not think the same at the moment. Bernard Muna, from the North-West is regarded as better able to attack the President Biya and John Fru Ndi political ideology.
There are also some reports saying that John Fru Ndi`s longest standing ally last week presented him with an ultimatum that could herald the beginning of the end of the fake-real face of the opposition in Cameroon. The man who for 20 years stood at John Fru Ndi`s side delivered his ultimatum in the course of a wide-ranging speech in which he criticised and even ridiculed the administration`s performance of the party by John Fru Ndi. He is being accused of neglect and mismanagement of the 20 years old political party.
As the chairman is pretending that everything is going well, his former ally speaks of moral decay and lost of confidence. Fru Ndi`s insider man think that the man who has refused to be named for legal reason, might have receive hundreds of million francs cfa it is believed from Etoudi to influence Fru Ndi decision and stand down.
This is not the first time Etoudi has done this in order to weakness in some how the stronghold of the Sdf. Meanwhile this intention of calling that meeting with some leaders of political parties outside of Yaounde, the political and administrative capital of Cameroon, has heightened the chances of the Sdf leader, president candidate, to stand against Biya and who personally endorsed several of leaders of small political parties who at the moment have no representatives in the Parliament.
But according to some reports, the Unity Palace observers warned that John Fru Ndi`s polarising personality, which has made him deeply unpopular in most of the European countries and in the Us with some swing voters and the recent resignation of some key members of the party would lead the socialist-democrat to a more flyweight ideological figure.....
Fru Ndi initiative is being supported by Britain and the Us and also other European countries according to insiders and it is viewed as an opportunity for the opposition leaders to unite and form something that will help them to challenge Biya. That something has not got a name yet.
Adamou Ndam Njoya, for the Cameroon Democratic Union who attended the previous conference in Us called and organized by the Cameroon Diaspora Coalition on the future of Cameroon and Celestin Bedzigui who has sold his former political party to the Undp and lost faith in fighting against Biya have all rejected the idea of joining Fru Ndi meeting, while Chief Mila Assoute from Paris is still unsure whether or not to join or not the meeting.
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