BY TALL A AGHAA CHRISTOPHER
Konye is a sub divisions in Meme Division of the South West Region and for almost 20 years as an administrative unit, the division that hosts the Bakundu, Mbonge and Bafaw tribes has been home to a plethora of political parties including; the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, the Social Democratic Front, SDF, the National Union for Democracy and Progress, NUDP, and the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress, NADP.
The CPDM has always maintained her supremacy in both the council and Parliamentary elections and the sub division has always voted overwhelmingly for the CPDM in all Presidential elections, except in 1990 at the dawn of multiparty politics in Cameroon when the subdivision voted overwhelmingly for the NUDP with Hon Motaze Ngoh David winning the lone parliamentary seat of the Meme West Constituency.
Currently, the CPDM controls the municipal council and the parliamentary seat with Barrister Musima Georges Lobe as Mayor and Hon Atinda Martin as the Member of Parliament respectively.
However with the much anticipated elections of 2018, Konye seems to be boiling politically with the SDF, Cameroon’s frontline opposition party making some major inroads.
The SUN gathered that the party of John Fru Ndi is giving sleepless nights to the CPDM barons in the area.
Reliable sources hinted The SUN that the SDF has already visited almost all the 36 villages that make up Konye Sub Division with lofty political promises which seems to be resonating with the population.
The SDF team including Barrister Njoro Abraham of Limbe, Barrister Ilambo Godlove of Kumba and the SDF District Chairperson of Konye, Motumba James with support from the Pioneer Konye SDF Electoral District Chairman and last Parliamentary Candidate, Pa Dibo of Ikiliwindi stormed Konye passing through Koba, Sambaliba, Wone, Itoki, Mbu-Bakundu, Ibemi, Kombone-Bafaw, Ikilinwindi, Matoh, Diongo, Matondo, Baduma Kurume Kokaka, Dikume Bafaw, Kokobuma, and Mbakwa Supe, talking to the population and promising to visit other parts of the Sub Division in the days ahead.
In one of their political rallies, the SDF called for a no-confidence-vote for the incumbent Mayor, Barrister Musima George Lobe and the need for the electorate to throw their weight behind the SDF during the upcoming election.
They told the population that it’s only through the SDF that meaningful development can come to Konye.
The SDF drew the attention of the population to the fact that the roads within the municipality are bad, there is the absence of electricity, no veritable health facilities, whereas money is been collected by the council authorities with no objective and accountability.
They said with the SDF, there will be transparency and transformation of the municipality with no one left behind.
Quizzed whether they are taking advantage of the current Anglophone crisis, to make their voices heard, they told The SUN that even during the last elections, the SDF won in majority of the villages as per ELECAM statistics, reasons why the SDF had about 43% of the votes in the area.
They observed that the current Anglophone crisis has nothing to do with their intentions because they are simply telling the electorates the truth and that 2018 is not time for another political blunder.
The dream of the SDF to capture Konye in the upcoming elections won’t be served on a platter of gold. The CPDM, according to Barrister Musima, Section President in the area, has achieved a lot in terms of development.
“The records are clear and can easily be seen even by a blind man. The Council just won the best PNDP award in the region with a cash prize of FCFA 50million. The Council has equally embarked on an electricity project for the municipality with Kaboni Energy currently executing the multi- million project that is expected to completed by mid 2018. In Konye there is a visible Konye Council Business center, with perfect farm to market roads” a CPDM militant told The SUN.