Benjamin Ngah
Planned for the Bamenda Congress Hall
which hosts the CPDM secretariat, the defunct JB Ndeh”s Coordination Meeting,
resuscitated after the National Chairman of CPDM decreed it creation within the
party some few weeks ago, finally took place at the Conference Hall of Ayaba
Hotel.
Journalists and some section presidents
got to the Congress Hall that afternoon yet there was no sign of life.
Surprised some reporters sought from a man idling around to know whether there
was a meeting in the Hall.
“There is no meeting here. As you can see
the hall is locked. We were not instructed to open the hall. I am sure that
meeting is elsewhere,” the idling wrangled.
We did not want to believe him and
thought the meeting was going on secretly in one of the halls.
“But It is a CPDM meeting organized by JB
Ndeh,” one of us argued. “The meeting is supposed to be here.”
At this juncture the idle man got annoyed
and walked away murmuring something I got faintly as “who even convened the
meeting. They told us not to open this place. I am not part of this fighting.
This is how they do and one gets into trouble.”
Speaking to us in a much louder voice he
said in Pidgin English, “wunna call JB no. wunna no get his number? Wunna call
am.”
We made some few calls
and discovered that the venue of the meeting was changed to Ayaba Hotel. We
dashed there and being some few minutes late into the meeting.
John B Ndeh, the brain behind what has
today been bought by the National Chairman of the CPDM, President Paul Biya,
and which also looks like copying from the SDF’s Regional Chair person method,
to create what is today called “CPDM Regional Coordinator.” The move by
President Paul Biya has been hailed by many who hitherto bitterly opposed to JB
Ndeh NW coordination and wrote petitions until it died naturally.
During the meeting, JB Ndeh vividly
very happy paid tributes to late Hon: Tamfu who was part of the coordination
meeting from inception. He avoided making any references as to why the Congress
Hall serving as the party’s secretariat was not used. He also congratulated all
section presidents who were part of his vision which has today come true. He
said, unlike in other regions where the people would be learning how to
function, the North West would be far ahead since they have been used to it
already.
At the end of the meeting, a motion of
support as usual sanctioned the meeting. They praised the CPDM National
President for his clairvoyance and wished him many more years not only as the
National President of the Party, but as that of the country.
Gossips filtering from the corridors
after the meeting pointed to the fact that the Congress Hall was intentionally
blocked by JB’s political rivals within the party to frustrate him from holding
the meeting and take credit for what he rightly deserves. It is not the first
time JB has been blocked from taking part in political events. It is said that
during the 50th anniversary celebration of the unification of the
two Cameroons, he and his coordination unit from the North West Region were
blocked from marching past in front of the President in Buea.
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