Of SDF Baboons and CPDM Chimpanzees

Posted in reaction to a reaction on www.postwatchmagazine.com and www.africaindependent.com: Reaction to Meet Maidadi Sardou: The Man who would be President, from Mr. Sarli Sardou Nana in Hull, England and Mr. Godwill Tachi in Maryland, USA
Sarli Sardou wrote:

Reconciliation Forum in the SDF: an opportunity not a threat!
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: Greetings to you Sarli. Howdy? I see that you remain as telescopic as usual regarding issues and fright some with the truth and facts. You confuse issues, you think with your heart and you bring in some defamation here, Youngman;
1. You confuse Mr. Boh Herbert's Newslink, which, in fact, received some aid from Mr. Philip Che to print an edition with my Postwatch magazine. I was not remotely involved with this issue and you are supposed to know that.
2. As you know someone greatly interested in a parliamentary seat does not show up in his so-called constituency for the first time on the day of your so-called primaries to get himself elected...By the way, my forebears hail from Ndaka in Ako Sub-division not Sabongari in Nwa...And the Ndaka chieftaincy from whence I cometh is in Misaje SD not Ako. I described your primaries as ‘so-called’ because we were told that the Ako event, organized at sub-divisional level was a caucus; that the candidate from Ako would eventually run against the candidate from Misaje in another caucus and that all the candidates would be selected in the divisional finals in Nkambe. As you know, we ran out of time and NEC? had to put out an SDF list. As you know by the time the elections actually came the given had changed and there were other priorities. I don’t recall whether it was you or Julius who put out my posters saying: THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB. Yep, I have not changed.
3. Your memory seems to be short or you'd remember that night I stood on one side and asked all of you...Julius, Mr. Fru Ndi, etc to convince me why the SDF had to go to parliament...You remember that I debunked all that trash about creating a revolution and an earthquake in parliament and then getting airtime for the SDF. Let’s make the effort to stick to facts though...I may find time to reply to you and Mr. Tachi exhaustively but you remain superficial as always and your facts are at best...
Greetings to You

HEREWITH THE REPLY I PROMISED
Sarli wrote: In a recent article published in Postwatch of 17/08/2004, reproduced widely in online magazines across the world, my friend and former colleague
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: Again.. Sarli..what you are reading was not published today! That stuff was actually first published in 1998 in the snailcopy of Postwatch Magazine No. 002! And believe it or not, the first person to grab a copy was Mr. John of Ntarinkon. It’s just being re-published on the Net for the first time in 2004! Well, with a little update here and there. But, you see, six years later, its prophetic content and veracity haunt one. You are not the first person to get miffed by this publication. I recall that when the issues contained herein were published in 1998, including another write-up called: Changing the Movement of Change, Martin Yembe, the then provincial Chairman of the SDF for the NW, called a rally! In the presence of Mr. John of Ntarinkon, Yembe actually told they rally that “they” will teach Ntemfac Ofege that they owned Bamenda. Also that they knew where I lived and also where my children go to school! That they would take out their frustration…on my children, can you believe that? Years later…I was amused to hear that Yembe had left the SDF (citing some of the things I said in 1998, among others) and is now hobnobbing with Bob Forbin’s Justice and Democracy Fraud i.e when he is not active in the SCNC! The tail is now wagging the dog! May your tail not also wag you, Amen!
Go to www.postwatchmagazine.com and read Professor Asonganyi’s Revolutionary and Counter-revolutionary Theology Unplugged. Also first published in 1998. You may then understand why I abhor so-called social democrats who haven’t a clue what social democracy is all about. I also abhor a certain extreme-militantism or pristine fundamentalism, cult worship, heel-clicking militancy and zero summing present within a certain lunatic fringe of most political parties; the SDF especially. Ignorance, mediocrity and emotionalism, I detest. You know that too well. This type of fundamentalism demands that issues be swept under the carpet and that there must be only one road to follow even if that path is going down a precipice. You are Sarli, Sarli Sardou Nana. I hope I will not have to wonder if the hidden gene of fundamentalism and suicide bombing is not hidden in you somewhere. May Pulaaaku, which you explained to me, prevent you from sinking that low.
The then president of Nigeria, Ibrahim Babanguida, once said that it is the level of debate, the clash of facts and ideas and ideas between the knowledgeable class (civil society) that promotes societies and societal organizations. Political parties are vital societal institutions. When the level of debate is founded on ignorance, falsehood, rampant fundamentalism, cult worship, mullahs parading, clowns displaying, etc. we fall into the gutter, the society (and hence the political party) fails to grow and mediocrity and demon-worship grow. Could we just rev it up a wee bit, please? The level is now low. That is why some of the fine minds (Carlson Anyangwe, Nfor Susungi, etc. etc) that gave the SDF their best are wary of the ‘derive dictatorial’ that is now currency in the party. We will always be friends, Sarli. Consequently, I expect your full apologies for insinuating that Fru Ndi bankrolled Postwatch. You know better than that Sarli. It was Newslink, my friend, with Boh Herbert not Ntemfac Ofege. And, Sarli, I get easily stimulated by genuine intellectual arguments based on facts, their analyses and their interpretations. I remain scared of mullahs and people who think with their hearts. Because before you know it there will draw out that wicked-looking scimitar from underneath the long robe. Or send a hit squad to savage Souleymane and break poor Hilary Kebila’s (Publisher of The Messenger) mandibles. Or send the Bafana Bafana hit squad and vanguards to terrorise and intimidate Bernard Muna in a Douala Cinema Hall. Or, make phony phone calls threatening to kill Dr. Tchwenko because he said: Niet! We understand each other. This is not democracy! This is barbarism! Stalin and Trotsky operated like that. We will start talking when you show some mastery of facts and savvy in the realities of politics and political institutions. Not before. You don’t even know where I come from: Sabongari, indeed!
Ok. Pick up your notebook and pen: Gidajukum, the abode of the Jukun people of Cameroon, is the first frontier village before Bissaula en route to Nigeria. Gidajukun is the headquarters of the Jukun people of Ndaka. The Jukun people even those in Nigeria are often perceived, erroneously, as troublemakers. The Fon of Ndaka is my uncle and I am in the line of succession. Gidajukun is in Misaje Sub Division. By some error the Ndaka people have been shifted into Ako Sub-division to rub shoulders with the Njari people whom we, the Jukun breed arrogantly, detest and persecute. Just like my forebears and pedigree persecute the Tiv people across the border (…)
From Postwatchmagazine.com: “The fact stands that the roadblock to genuine reconciliation in the SDF remains Mr. Fru Ndi who, after these years is still blind, narcissistic, parochial, temperamental, dictatorial, tyrannical, tribal, myopic and, incidentally, still charismatic. But it takes more than charisma to rule Cameroon. Time for Mr. John to retire. Even his position as Chairman, the soul of Cameroon can, with solid evidentials, be challenged.”
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: I stand by the above in toto. No apologies to tender. I must have repeated to you the difference between an insult and a statement of fact: Telling a fool right into his face that he is a fool is not an insult. It is a statement of fact, period! The Buea Convention of the SDF created a Reconciliation Forum, under the late Sengat Kuo that was never allowed to work because of Mr. Fru Ndi’s intransigence. There were many others since then. A foreign sponsor even put down some money 20M, I hear, for reconciliation in the SDF. It did not help. I have a strong hunch that the current one will not work. The same causes will produce the same effect, you know that…
Sarli wrote: In response to Ofege (published on Africa Independent website) one Mr. Godwill Tachi of Maryland (USA) wrote:
“I have issues with the SDF and Fru Ndi, but if Mr. Ofege has got and axe to grind with anyone in the party, it will not be by deliberately circumventing the truth and concealing the facts and truthfully giving a wrong analysis of the melodrama in the SDF.”
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege wrote: Your operative word is melodrama, which in itself is an over-simplification of the issues herein involved. The operative sign of www.postwatchmagazine.com is: the undiluted truth, period! When I present the truth from my vantage point about Mr. Biya, SDF fundamentalists, mullahs and tribesmen never accuse me of ‘having an axe to grind with Mr. Biya’ but when I turn the mirror in their direction they start talking about my pedigree, the size of my head, etc. Small minds discuss people…
Sarli wrote: I largely agree with Mr. Tachi on the above and ask you please to publish my response.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege wrote: And I respect your natural right to have your say. However, be a gentleman and retract your defamation of Postwatch. I hope you still practise Pulaaku
Sarli cont.d: I also have issues with the SDF and the present leadership but I also recognise that they have put their lives on hold for a decade to bring about change and that there is a place and time for everything. In any case there is no need of insulting anyone. Having worked with Ofege in Mr. Fru Ndi’s office and the SDF, I think there is a bit of soar grapes in what Ofege writes today. I admire Ofege’s abilities as a journalist. He is also a very kind person, and I will always say so. But he seems to be paranoid about Mr. Fru Ndi, the SDF and the so called La Republique to a point where his characteristic objectivity is clearly blinded by subjective bitterness and innuendo.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: Attacking the messenger is a theory in manipulative communication (also called Kameism, Kontchouism, Goebbelism), which prescribes that when confronted by a strong argument from an adversary; the coward tries to discredit the messenger. I use manipulative communication myself, see? Hearken to the message, my friend, the messenger is just the messenger. Only small minds award motives and see conspiracies where there are none. What is the issue? The issue is compelling, fundamental and very serious. The issue is simple: Can Fru Ndi beat Biya today, everything being what they are? The answer is no. And if the answer is no: Is there any other person within the SDF or the CNRR or anywhere else in Cameroon and beyond capable of beating Mr. Biya today, everything being what they are? That is where Maidadi’s name came up. This is where other publications are touting Sanda Oumarou, Christopher Formunyoh, Djeukam, Tchameni and, I know you hate this, Bernard Muna, came up. This observer proffered suggestions and solutions. I put down a number of points. You have not challenged one of them: NOT EVEN ONE. Rather you delve into fundamentalism and throw empty rhetoric and adjectivals about. My friend, and to use this quote from my other friend, Marius Tegomoh, there are very few to match me in throwing adjectives but let’s stick to the issues, can we? Good
Sarli wrote: I also know the people he writes about very well as I spent at least six years working with them very closely indeed. Saidou, Souleymane, Evariste, Sani and others made a huge mistake by resigning from the Party and most all forming yet other Parties! Anyone who loves them should tell them so and ask them to use the window of opportunity offered through the Reconciliation Forum to come back to the fold – not for anyone but because they spent several years trying to build what is today the SDF.
I remember lobbying for Ofege when he stood for primaries as an SDF parliamentary candidate in Sabongari (Donga-Mantung Division) as recently as 1997. Needless to say that he was defeated in the primaries by Chemo who is still the SDF MP for the area. If he won the elections would he have declined taking up his seat in Parliament? I doubt it… Would he have held or expressed the same views as he is doing now? Is he still a militant of the SDF? I don’t know … Did he feel disappointed that Mr. Fru Ndi did not pull his weight behind his ‘Press Adviser’ at the time?
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: In your attempt to attack the messenger you conjure up some fabrications here. I have never been to Sabongari in all my life, my friend. However, you make a stunning revelation here. You are actually confirming that primaries and elections in the SDF do not matter. Only the ‘weight’ of the Chairman matters! What then do you have against Biya? Sarli the journalists (Cameroon Report-Cameroon Calling…that means folks like your humble servant) started fighting the Cameroonian system long before the SDF was born! We remain committed and we will leave no stone unturned to see that Cameroon gets a truly modern, democratic and better system for us all. The idea was never to replace CPDM baboons with SDF chimpanzees; CPDM dictators with SDF dictators, CPDM thieves with SDF thieves! The idea is to change Cameroon. If the performance (with the CPDM toleration present) of some SDF councillors and parliamentarians is anything to go by…then, my friend, the CPDM is even better! You know why? Because the SYSTEM allows kleptoctats and con men to live long and prosper. I applauded when Mbah Ndam produced a list of fake companies that had conned money from P and T. But you know, what a shield company owned by the same Mbah Ndam..Company Number 60 was part of that list. That company was runned by the man’s Moyo. This fact was published in 1998 in The Times, my other newspaper! If you are not suffering from one of your selective amnesia you would recall that in 1997 I had come to Bamenda for some family business and was at Ayaba Hotel minding my own business when Julius and you wandered in. Your story was that my man Boh Herbert helped the SDF greatly when he was about..writing speeches, handling the press, etc. And that Boh left suddenly. You wondered if I could not help out. I had some time on my hands so I said fine. Sarli, that day in 1997 was my first time of meeting Mr. Fru Ndi. I ran the man’s campaign on TV in 1992 and faced the wrath of Kontchou Kouomegni, Fame Ndongo without knowing what the heck he looked like! (I was in the DEA Political Science/Communications Programme in ESSTIC at the time and Fame was Director of the school, see?) Fame told me that I would get my certificate over his dead body and Kontchou threatened the same. They gave me hell in my defense, I tell you that. Only Prof Tatan Mentan, Prof Aletum Tabue saved me. Anyway anything that messes up Mr. Biya’s life takes me on. So I joined you guys…and I had some fun. I even had greater fun messing up the life of Prof. Asonganyi and some of the folks I judged “not so competent” in the SDF. Sarli I walked out when it became clear to me that the SDF was only slightly different from the CPDM in its modus operandi. I am still looking for Mr Boh Herbert to tan his hide for not telling me the truth in advance. Herbert simply said: “You will not like it and that was that…” I didn’t and I am not amused.
Sarli wrote: I also remember when Mr. Fru Ndi bent over backward when he convinced one of his friends to borrow out money for the printing of one of the first editions of Postwatch. To the best of my knowledge the debt is still to be settled and it is ironic that the magazine funded to help ‘the struggle’ is used for personal vendetta today.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: This is blackmail and defamation! I hope it is just born out of ignorance or the antics of a tribesman and fundamentalist or plain hearsay. I await your apology. You may want to crosscheck your facts with Julius, for example.
Sarli wrote: Like Mr. Tachi I have many issues with the SDF but I believe that there is a democratic way of doing things. If you don’t like politicians vote them out! It is down to the membership of the SDF to decide who leads them and the ballot box to determine who leads Cameroon. That is what I am fighting for – an environment in which you can vote in and out leaders. In any case I am against opportunistic ‘kiss and tell’ attitude and by the way why throw the baby with the bath water?
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: And, permit me show some emotionalism for once: Who the heck cares what you are for or against? It is up to journalists to codify all processes around and about for posterity without being awarded babies and shifted into camps that are not ours. Don’t dress me in borrowed robes, my friend. Don’t make me gratuitously beastly presents. Sarli, you should see me when I clean up and love ‘my babies’. I seldom sweep things under the carpet to gratify certain egos, you know that... You should also see me when I discipline ‘my babies.’ Hard. Without being a subscriber to the logic of the striper I discipline them well I want them to be better persons, see? Because my father disciplined me well. Kiss and tell? You make me laugh. My Stewardship, my friend. We are talking about events of 1998 and posterity demands of me that I start putting down my side of the story. Dr Nantang Jua once told me that he walked up to Professor Anyangwe and took off his hat to him and the others who drafted the SDF Manifesto. I went back and read the document and then I took off my payback to Prof. again. I have proven to the world that the current SDF leadership has no idea what Social Democracy means. See...www.postwatchmagazine.com. Biya Must Go! We Must Change! Power to the People! are not sound ideologies on which serious political visions are anchored. You see the millions who gave their lives, blood, limb, toil and sweat, and are still giving, so that the SDF should grow and prosper never bargained on creating another CPDM. They did not know and still do not know what the heck social democracy is. They simply knew that “We are the good guys” and over there “those in the CPDM are the bad guys.” Today, I wonder. Look very closely at Mbah Ndam and his head might shimmer and Cavaye’s will appear in its stead. The baboon now looks like the chimpanzee. My generation, which started this thing in the first place, is looking for genuine, authentic, meaningful change. I am not a fool to be led by the nose by empty heads and con artists who haven’t a clue where Cameroon and the world are at today. The old guard has done their best under the circumstances, Sarli. Now is time for them to get lost. It is now my turn. Who tells you that I don’t want to be the next Chairman of the SDF or an authentic social democratic party? Then, even if social democracy is a great vision, getting the people to apply that vision needs another vision. A democracy cannot exist without democrats. The SDF insurgency was always in the hands of a prosaic creature called the mindless mob, which could always be misled by any upstart. Today the mob is no longer mindless because it has understood that it was all an attempt to replace baboons with chimpanzee. Na trouble be dat! And trust the mullahs and fundamentalists not to see the warts that have always been on the nose of their ‘incredibly beautiful babies.’ Wake up and face the truth especially as you admit that there are problems. The way forward is a serious agenda, Youngman.
Good Day to You Sarli.
Sarli Sardou Nana
Hull (England)

Reaction [to the above] of Godwill Tachi,

(Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, published on http://www.africanindependent.com/ 17/08/2004)
Mr. Tachi: I wish to opine on the recent stream of articles by your partner/contributor on Mr. Maidadi and Fru Ndi and I wish this could be published or a response sent to me. Mr. Ofege is a great guy. (Thanks, Sir) When I was young he was my hero during the Cameroon Calling days over radio Cameroon.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege wrote: Is this because I said just the things you wanted to hear about Mr. Biya? Now I am no longer your hero because I say just the things you do not want to hear about Mr. John of Ntarinkon. Now you start doubting my identity. I have not changed…I remain the same person: Ntemfac Aloysius Nkong Nchwete Ofege.
Mr. Tachi: No doubt, there are problems with the SDF but I very much wonder the real intentions of Ofege when all his articles are nothing but Fru Ndi bashing and not only that; he writes all if not most of the time on faulty premises.
I will take one or two cases. He insinuates that Fru Ndi is not Mandela, Gbagbo or Wade Abdoulaye because the SDF is in councils and in the parliament. What the heck is he talking about? He forgets to know that Abdoulaye Wade has several times been minister in the Diouf regime and that Gbagbo's FPI has been in parliament more than once before his coming to power in Ivory Coast. Mr. Ofege is a great mind but he should go back to his history books.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: Dear Mr. Tachi. This is the only stimulating portion of this posting so try to be as simple as possible. Talking from distant Maryland I would forgive you when you see things from a long way off and make such telescopic statements, and, excuse me, show such grand ignorance. Cameroon is not Senegal. Neither is Cameroon the Cote d’Ivoire. And, I repeat Fru Ndi is not Mandela. Neither is he Gbagbo. He is not Wade. Let me explain.
Come let us examine the following scenarios, all part of a continuum together:

1. You have a leader who takes you to the precipice knowing fully well that the precipice and thus the death trap are there. And, you follow him. He is a murderer and you are a fool;
2. You have a leader who, despite all indicators and warnings from Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege to you and the leader does not know that the precipice is there. You know the precipice is there and you follow him because he is the leader. He is a fool and you are an Ass. Fundamentalism transforms people into Asses;
3. The leader knows and you know that he knows that the precipice is there. But he is being led by a hidden agenda which agenda can only be his own financial interest and the next 500.000.000 ‘election money’ from Mr. Biya. You follow him? He is a ‘wiseman’ and you are a donkey;
4. You know that the precipice is there and the leader doesn’t. You follow him. You are a Prized and Certified Ass;
5. The leader knows that the precipice is there and he knows that you know that he knows that you know that the precipice is there. You follow him. He is a great politician. As for you, I lack adjectives to qualify you;
6. You don’t know that the precipice is there and the leader does not know that the precipice is there: the blind leading the blind. You follow him. Both of you are donkeys.
7. You know that the precipice is there and the leader does not know that you know. So you do not follow him. You are Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege. Welcome brother, the spirit also leads you…

Now in all of the above continuum take your pick. Where do you put Fru Ndi and where do you put yourself? As for me and my household who fear the Lord and follow him, I know where I have put Mr. Fru Ndi and I know where I have put you. I know where I have put Sarli. I know where I belong, Sir, and make no bones about it. I am a Wiseman!
Now you also pick up your pen and notebook:
We are not talking history, SDF fundamentalism, geography and daydreaming but rather politics, political science and REALPOLITIK. We are talking about the existential, the currency, and the reality of state organization-institutions, structures and functions of Cameroon today. Elementary knowledge: the executive, the judiciary, the legislature are the arms of government. The executive, in some contraptions, have a central (Federal), the regional (State) and local (County) government. In some ideal situations the above arms of government are separate, independent and often equal. Not in Cameroon. By the current, constitution of Cameroon all arms of government are tightly controlled and subordinate to the executive who defines the policy and practice and wields TOTAL POWER in these organs. The executive is imperial and controls the legislative and the judiciary. In fact the only independent arm of government is not even the government-controlled press but the private press. Some of them though. Consequently, the CPDM head of state controls right down to the councils even when they are won by the SDF! He wades in even more when he knows that the opposition has won those councils. He appoints government delegates, he appoints auditors, he appoints secretaries general and he makes sure that the real mayor – the SDO and DO, attend all meetings and decide on all projects!
1. The government of Cameroon; the executive is headed by a PM, appointed by a president who, by the constitution, determines, creates and defines government policy, period. The president defines government policy in government, the judiciary, the parliament and the councils!
2. Despite the presence of so- called councils headed by elected mayors, local government in Cameroon is vested in the District and Divisional Officer and the Senior Divisional Officer and then the Governor. These people are direct appointees of the president and they report directly to him. They also control the ‘forces of legitimate state constraint’ (the police, the gendarmes, the courts, the army, the navy, etc). Local government in Cameroon is founded on existing laws and regulations that are very clear about who does what. For example, the SDO for Mezam, by without doubt “les hautes instructions du chef de l’Etat” has just banned all public manifestations following the murder of John Kohtem. He has the gendarmes to make his ban work. The mayor of the council is actually the DO or the SDO who sets the agenda in all councils and chairs the meetings of even opposition councils! And where the major local government or council has been won by the opposition, Mr. Biya directly appoints a CPDM member called Government Delegates or another barbarism called the Municipal Magistrates and Council Secretaries General who control the agenda, finances and day to day running of the said council. In short, local government in Cameroon is in the direct hands of the CPDM even where the SDF claims to have won. The SDF knew all of this or was supposed to know all of the above before attending the elections and before claiming to be in charge of some councils! The SDO and the DO also control the voters register and the conduct elections and proclaim results in their ‘local governments’. And, as you know, they have the ‘devoir de resultat’ i.e they must guarantee the victory of they that put them there – the president and his party. Mr. Biya has just made a wide cabinet shake-up of all the DOs and SDOs in readiness for the 2004 elections. Except the play to the gallery was even more vicious than we know, the SDF went into the councils knowing fully well that the existing system did not give them a chance of applying even one item of their Manifesto and policies. So why did they go?
3. The legislative arm of government is vested in a parliament wherein the CPDM not only has an absolute majority through fraud but the Standing Orders of the CPDM makes it impossible for the Opposition to table ONE BILL..just ONE. Consequently ALL Bills to parliament are from the CPDM government! It was impossible for the SDF to table one bill when they were given 62 seats in 1997. It was even more impossible when they were given 43 seats in 2002. Now given the fore and the hindsight of the situation why did the SDF go to parliament…the money! The SDF knew this or was supposed to know! Now they turn around and say the CPDM has made it impossible for them to function in parliament. Who sent them there?
4. The judiciary is under the grand chairmanship of the president who is the chairman of the Higher Council of the Magistracy. He has the power of life and death over the judges. He appoints and fires all of them. He grants them annual promotions with lucrative packages.
5. Per the constitution, the president defines the policy of the state – NOT PARLIAMENT and definitely not the SDF in SDF councils (Art. 5.2) He is the first magistrate, the first gendarme, the first policeman. And he can bypass Parliament by legislating through decrees and ordinances! The Ministry of Defence, National Security, etc. are not independent. They are delegations of the presidency, etc, etc.
This issue of Postwatch magazine, published in 1998! which you seem to be so worked up about has an article by Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor and your humble servant captioned; Cameroon’s Imperial President and Imperial Constitution. I may re-publish that for some of you long-rangers who sound like a tin drum all the time. In the Cameroonian dispensation the executive and the CPDM TIGHTLY control parliament and the councils. When I argued strongly against joining the CPDM in that mess I made this point. The point was even made more emphatically in a Memo prepared by Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor and your humble servant and tabled to the SDF delegation ahead of the SDF-CPDM talks..
The issue that brings you and me together is called the 2004 elections, right? Since 1992 the fraud machinery has not changed. Rather it has been improved to be even more devastating. Let me shout if I must: Mr. Biya cannot be beaten via the ballot box. Listen to me, Youngman, if the SDF (or the opposition) tells you today that they can beat Biya in the next elections via the ballot box they are lying. A critical factor of the upcoming election in Cameroon is for the opposition to present a candidate who will justify a popular revolt should Biya rig again. And he will. Maybe you never understood why there was the clamour for the Cardinal to run against Biya - to break the system. Fru Ndi is not that kind of candidate because he lost the 1992 momentum. Timing in politics is important. The issue is to invent a ‘momentary political equilibrium’ one way or another so that Mr. Biya feels threatened during and after the election. That is why the candidate is important. I may be speaking in tongues to you but I do that a lot these days. Especially since I became a born-again Christian six years ago. I am not a fatalistic subscriber to schemes that are designed to fail and doomed except, perhaps, when we are practicing Kameism. Kame suggests that we can actually send people down the streets to be slaughtered by the gendarmes so that we denounce the human rights record of the said gendarmes and their government. I would not like to open a real can of worms but Fru Ndi is not Mandela. Neither is he Gbagbo. Neither is he Wade. Charisma is different from astuteness and shrewdness and timing. Compromise destroys the very foundation on which every building (massive epanastasis and revolution) stands. I have never compromised my stand against Biya. Why should I compromise when Fru Ndi et al start behaving very much like Biya?
Finally, my friend, the system was invented by France for Francophones. Anglophones who know better will always be marginalized, persecuted, prosecuted, haunted, hunted and chased away to the Diapora. We are l’ennemie dans la maison.
Tachi wrote: He further insinuates that it was a very big error for the SDF to go into councils and the parliament because that tantamount to joining the Biya government. Sorry Mr. Ofege is damn wrong. He should make a difference between a state and a government and the legislature and the executive branches. Does he want to tell me that because Mr. Bush and the Republican Party are grossly misleading the American nation the Democrats should not run for senatorial and congressional seats because it will mean cautioning the Bush government? I never knew you could be that slow.

Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege wrote: Cameroon is not the USA, my friend. What we have here in the ultimate mayhem: a centralized, centralized, kleptocratic, authoritarian, one-party, totalitarian unitary dictatorship controlled top-to-bottom; a state of the art wherein, as far as structures and functions including power control, power play, prestige outage and influence display is in the hands of the CPDM and CPDM dyadic networks. The PRESIDENT and the CPDM have total control given by the Constitution and all its variant laws, decrees, regulations, shield laws, etc. Thank God the CNRR or the opposition is now wising up to the fact that the fight is against a SYSTEM, not individuals. Pluripartism in Cameroon was never designed to promote democracy. Rather it was an attempt to divide and rule. The fight in Cameroon is not to change individuals. Or replace proven CPDM baboons with SDF chimpanzees. The fight is to change a system a vicious system that has been here since 1960. In the US the Democrats can win a state and a legislature and actually get to execute their policies. My friend…you have to come down and actually understand the Cameroonian political system and its functions.
Tachi wrote: He further goes ahead with scurrilous comments and suppositions like someone chopped to have the SDF boycott the 1992 legislative elections. What an outrageous statement. He further states that the withdrawal of the petition from the Supreme Court in October 1992 led to the defeat of the party. It makes me laugh when Mr. Ofege is trying to force his readers to believe that the Supreme Court would have in any shape or form change anything when it clearly stated on the day the results were declared that there were irregularities but its hands were tied.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege wrote: Not the Supreme Court, my friend. Mr. Biya was desperate enough to try something like that Mr. Tachi. I can talk about the processes that led to that withdrawal because I not only handled the SDF campaign on TV..Alone and without a leader as Rumpole would say (for which I am yet to get a thank you from some of the ingrates in the SDF) but I was part of the 1992 vote tallying process. As a journalist and one who was covering the presidency between 1987 to 1990, I have my sources. Believe it or not somebody called me on the morning of the 1997 legislative elections and told me that the SDF would have 43 seats! Ten minutes later I told Mr. Fru Ndi. Later that day, when the voting was not even over Mr. Kontchou Kouomegni was announcing somewhere in the West province that the SDF had 44 seats!
To get back to the point..Mr Biya did not know how to react to the fact that he had lost massively in 1992. When he heard that the SDF had tabled a petition asking for a cancellation of the election because of the fraud to the Supreme Court, the man blessed his starts and was ready to go to the press ordering a cancellation. Then the SDF pulled out its case. Actually, the SDF case was pulled out because at the time, Fru Ndi was leading and the habitual SDF fundamentalists, mullahs and tribesmen thought that the Munas who filed the case only wanted their candidate not to win! Biya then found a way of rigging the vote and justifying the rigging. The SDOs and Dos were ordered by Andze Tsoungui to phone in fake results and produce new score sheets showing that it was close but Biya won. What I am saying is that BY NOT DENOUNCING FRAUD BECAUSE THE SDF CANDIDATE WAS BENEFITTING, the SDF is where it is today with the corruption, fraud, trickery and thievery that it set out to combat at its own doorsteps. The tail is now wagging the dog. Principles, my friend, does it mean that the SDF would have built its house on the 1992 fraud if the CPDM orchestrated that fraud and Fru Ndi won! Listen I will re-publish this last interview from a true great SDF man Dr Samuel Tchwenko before he died. You will be shocked. Principles..principles…principles….
Tachi wrote: Mr. Ofege has become so infatuated with Mr. Maidadi to such a level that I cannot reasonably find a reason for that. There is no doubt that Maidadi is a great guy just like Ofege but the latter deliberately conceals the truth from his readers that it was as a result of poor judgment that Maidadi and crew left the SDF. He fails to let his readers know that Maidadi was ill-informed by a CPDM agent who was working with the police in Bamenda that Mr. Fru Ndi had sent people to negotiate with Biya on the entry of the SDF into government and that the list forwarded by the Chairman did not include their names. In anger and frustration, they sought to convene and extraordinary session of the NEC which they failed because of lack of the required number of signatures from NEC members. Of course this was not true. Fru Ndi's position has always been consistent: The SDF will never join the CPDM government because it will kill the young democracy in Cameroon. So Mr. Ofege should tell his friend Maidadi whom he helped in lobbying for his V.P. position in the SDF that the world knows what happened and that the facts should not be distorted.
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: Hearsays, they will be the dearth of us! I know more about blackmail and giving a dog a bad name in the SDF than you, my friend. The issue was the convening of an extraordinary NEC to start preparing an SDF candidate in 2002 for the 2004 elections not what you claim, Let me just translate the exact question and the exact answer regarding this issue as culled from La Nouvelle Expression No 995 of 31st July 2002:
La Nouvelle expression: Mr. Chairman is it true that those who wrote a letter demanding an extraordinary NEC wanted to sack you and prepare another candidate for the next presidential elections?
Answer Fru Ndi: I cannot answer that question. These are only rumours. At the moment I am talking to you if they should tell me that Maidadi, the vice Chairman is involved in this matter I will swear to God that it is a lie. But if I go by his behaviour during the last NEC, which just held here in Bamenda where he did not speak to me, even once then I must say that it is possible that they thought about it. .
That normal convention is long overdue under the pretext that some people want to destabilize the party. Now an extra-ordinary convention to ‘select the SDF presidential candidate is announced for September 11th’ Politics, my friend, and its viciousness. What was so wrong in starting to prepare the SDF presidential candidate in 2002?
My motives shoul be clear to you by now. And your contextualization of government may not be what government actually is. Now the object of every political party is to grab power, one way or another, and apply its programmes not to act as a justification for democracy. If contemporary Lincolnian democracy..with its-of-the- people-by- the- people- for- the- people-soporific mantra is itself the product of capitalism, social democracy, which is actually the Maximax Pontifex of democracy, actually puts the welfare and gratification of man foremost. Power to the people and equal opportunities, is the war cry of the SDF. If your quote from Fru Ndi is correct; that the SDF will never join the CPDM because it will kill the young democracy in Cameroon, then Mr. John of Ntarinkon does not know where exactly he is. Or, counteriwise he is a con man. Now, man being quintessentially Homo Economicus, will hardly join a movement where his interest and needs are not taken care of. That is why political parties (like football squads) are created to grab power, win the league and satisfice the needs of their members. Even if those needs are only the fleeting orgasm of having beaten the CPDM they must be satisficed. The SDF, I know, was never created to justify the existence of a democracy in Cameroon but to grab power. Read Robert Dahl’s Polyarchy to discover the conditionalities of a democracy. Then you may discover that multipartism in fragmented Cameroon was never awarded because of an ardent desire in Mr. Biya to become a democrat. Rather pluripartism Cameroonianstyle wherein government sponsors parties on tribal divide and rule line subverts polyarchy. Under the pretext that they are the guarantors of peace and stability in Cameroon the CPDM operates a kleptocracy wherein 10% of the population or less controls 90% of the resources. And under the pretext that they are not part of the CPDM racket but they are the guarantors of a democracy, the current SDF leadership sponsors a system wherein 10% of the party’s leadership, not even the masses, benefits from the graft with the CPDM. This is armed robbery in broad daylight. And when I denounce these carpetbaggers some mullahs throw qualifiers at me. My friend if you cannot manage the little you have who will entrust into your care the righteous Mammon. Fact is the SDF did win all the major councils in Cameroon in 1996. Fact also is the SDF was kicked out of some of these councils through incompetence and beyond CPDM style kleptocracy.
Tachi wrote: What is equally shameful in Ofege's article is that he has joined those barren mentality landscape people who believe that unless you are a francophone or "bilingual", you are unfit for Command in Cameroon. What a disgrace? Where is Mr. Ofege's identity? Where is that true identity of a Cameroonian and Anglophone that you made us feel when we listened to you wonderful papers on Cameroon Calling though I was still a form two and three kid in secondary school in Ndop?
Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege: You don’t have to remain a form two or three kid in Ndop for people to lecture you all the time. However, Politics has also been defined as the art of the possible. Not an emotional discharge of the things in your heart. Let me tell you why, everything being equal, Mr. Biya is an exceptionally brilliant politician. Mr. Biya knows that what matters in politics is how to keep POWER. The man also knows his system VERY WELL; He uses it to keep POWER. I have had to simplify the language of this discourse because I want you to understand. Cameroon is a French country. The statistics, the history, the economic genocide, the culture, the actual official language, the marginalization, the atmosphere, the air, the geography, the administration, the politics, the organization, the laws, the international relations, the society, everything about Cameroon today should prove to you that until you are a Francophone or bilingual you are unfit for command. That is the reality. And that is why you are in the Diaspora, my friend. And France decides. Dream all you want. Scream all you want but until the Revolution that is reality. Your tendency to also throw adjectives at me and refuse to listen to me is typical of the SDF fundamentalists, mullahs and tribesmen who believe that democracy means that they give it without taking it: that they speak without listening and that the world ends in Ntarinkon. This is rubbish! Stop thinking with your heart, my friend. Face the real world.
Tachi wrote: I have issues with the SDF and Fru Ndi, but if Mr. Ofege has got and axe to grind with anyone in the party, it will not be by deliberately circumventing the truth and concealing the facts and truthfully giving a wrong analysis of the melodrama in the SDF.
Issues Sir, not persons. I rest my case. Good Day to You, Sir. Thank for giving me the opportunity to get involved.
Godwill Tachi
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

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