As SDF Resumes Activities After Burial Of Late National Chairman…

As SDF Resumes Activities After Burial Of Late National Chairman:

SDF Communicators And Militants Prohibited From Talking To Equinoxe Tv / Radio, La Nouvelle Expression And The Guardian Post

Preparations resume for Elective National Convention that was postponed to October 27 – 28, 2023 following Chairman Fru Ndi’s death

SDF Secretary General gives Littoral, North, Northwest, Southwest and West Regions that are not yet through with reorganization, the deadline of September 15, 2023

Deadline for the reception of files of potential candidates for elections at the Convention is September 24, 2023

How the leader of SDF Dissident Group (G 27 +), Senator Tchatchouang Paul, and others, were received at Fru Ndi’s funeral

First NEC Meeting after the burial of SDF leader, scheduled for September 9, 2023
The frontline opposition party, Social Democratic Front, SDF, has resumed normal activities that were suspended until August 6, 2023, following the passing away of the emblematic Pioneer National Chairman of the party, Ni John Fru Mdi, in the fateful night of June 12, 2023 in Yaounde. He was buried in his native Baba 11 Village, Santa Sub –division in Mezam Division of the Northwest Region of Cameroon, on July 29, 2023.
On August 8 and 10, 2023, the Secretary General of the SDF, Barrister Djomgang Adeline Lord, issued a communiqué and two circular letters. The Secretary General, in one of the circular letters dated August 10 that was addressed to all party structures, first congratulated them for their great mobilization during funeral of their late National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi. She recalled that following the death of the party leader, normal activities of party were suspended until August 6. She in the circular thus formally informed all the party structures of the resumption of the said activities.
Deadline For Application Files Of Potential Candidates
Barrister Djomgang who also recalled to the SDF structures that the Ordinary Convention of the party that was initially scheduled for late July was postponed to October 27 & 28, 2023 following the passing away of the National Chairman of the party, informed all the party structures that the deadline for the reception of the application files of potential candidates for elections at the Elective National Convention, has been fixed for September 24, 2023.
The SDF Scribe also called on the five regional executive bureaus already in place, to forward the lists of delegates to the October Convention latest September 24, 2023, for onward transmission. The five regions that have already completed their reorganizations, and thus have their new regional executives in place, are the Adamawa, Centre, East, Far North and South Regions.

Deadline Of September 15 To Complete Reorganization
Meanwhile in another circular letter dated August 10 addressed to the teams in charge of the reorganization of the basic organs of the SDF in the different regions, the Secretary General of the party, Barrister Djomgang Adeline Lord, congratulated them for work already done on the field, noting that five regions have already completed their reorganization. She said the five other regions that are still to complete their reorganizations include: Littoral, North, Northwest, Southwest and West Regions. The Secretary General informed the teams in charge of the reorganizations in the five regions, that the exercise must be completed no later than September 15, 2023.
Thus the deadline for the completion of the reorganization of the basic structures of the SDF across the county is September 15. It should be noted that only regions that complete the reorganization of the basic structures of the party, will send delegates to the Elective National Convention of the party billed for October 27 and 28, 2023. It however looks certain that all the 10 regions will complete their reorganizations. Before the death of the National Chairman of the SDF which led to the suspension of party activities, the reorganization of the basic organs of the party was for example already close to the stage of organizing the elective regional conference of the SDF in the Littoral Region.
Meanwhile, the SDF Secretary General in the circular letter addressed to teams in charge of the reorganizations of the structures of the party in the different regions, demanded that lists of executives of the Electoral Districts, Divisional Coordination and Regions, should be sent to the General Secretariat of the party latest September 15, which is the deadline for the reorganization exercise to end.

NEC Meeting Billed For September 9
Meanwhile the SDF Secretary General in a communiqué issued on August 8, informed all members of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party that an ordinary meeting has been scheduled to hold on September 9, 2023 in Yaounde. The venue of the NEC meeting that will be enlarged to SDF Mayors and members of Parliament will be the Regional Headquarters of the party at Olezoa, Yaounde. The meeting scheduled to start at 10 am, will be the first NEC meeting after the burial of the late National Chairman of the party, Ni John Fru Ndi.

G 27 + Coordinator Attends Funeral
Talking about the burial of the late SDF leader, Ni John Fru Ndi, it is worth noting that the former 2rd Vice National Chairman of the SDF, Chief Senator Tchatchouang Paul, the Coordinator of the group of dissidents known as G 27 + that were dismissed from the party last February by NEC for anti – party activities, attended the funeral of the late SDF leader, precisely. Chief Tchatchouang was present at the ecumenical service, at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex on Thursday, 27, 2023.
The SDF leadership demonstrated a high sense of political maturity by instructing that any member of the dissident group that happened to show up at the funeral of the late party leader should be treated well. Chief Tchatchouang for example was given a seat among the dignitaries who attended the ceremony at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex.. Another dissident, Partfait Mvoum, the former Vice Regional President of SDF Centre, was also spotted at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex.
Worth noting that Mme Chantal Kambiwa, the former National Coordinator of Socialist Women, was earlier on that July 27 at the Yaounde Mortuary for the removal of the corpse of the late SDF leader. She was given a seat at the front row. On his part, the former Centre Regional President of the SDF, Emmanuel Ntonga, was at the Nkolfoulou Soa residence of late Chairman Fru Ndi to pay his last respect, when the corpse was brought there after the ceremony at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex.
It should be noted that Chief Senator Tchatchouang and the others attended late Chairman Fru Ndi’s funeral in their individual capacities. This might also be an indication that some of the sacked members of the SDF in the G 27 +, who very much want to return to the house (SDF), will in their individual capacities file appeals against their dismissals at the National Convention of the SDF billed for late October. The 1st Vice National Chairman of the SDF, Chief Hon Joshua Osih,, had explained at a NEC meeting that each member of the dissident group that was sacked from the party, has a right to take his or her appeal to the party’s National Convention.
Internal Memo On Some Media Organs, Leaks
Meanwhile, SDF officials in Douala were in the morning of today, Saturday, August 12, 2023, taken aback, that an Internal Memo issued yesterday, Friday, August 11, 2023, prohibiting communicators in particular and militants of the party in general from talking to some media organs in the country, leaked less than 24 hours after. An online Francophone publication, Weeksinfos.com based in Douala, published it this morning. The memo leaked in less than 24 hours, even as it ended with a warning that “the internal memo must under no circumstances be distributed in the public space.
THE MENTOR has decided to publish in its entirety the English version of the leaked Internal Memo, since the French version is already in public space. Note should be taken that the text of the memo is being published the way it was written. All what one finds in capital letters, were written that way.
Below Is The SDF Internal Memo In Its Entirety
“The observation of the media treatment and processing of information on the national scene obliges us to considerably limit the presence of our political party, the SDF, on certain platforms and media spaces. So to speak, the following media organs namely: EQUINOXE TELEVISION, EQUINOXE RADIO, LA NOUVELLE EXPESSION AND THE GUARDIAN POST are declared NOT RECOMMENDABLE, AND STRONGLY NOT RECOMMNDED TO ALL COMMUNICATORS and other SDF militants. Consequently, ANY PARTICIPATION ON ANY PROGRAM OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED MEDIA, MUST REQUIRE THE EXPRES AUTHORITY OF MADAM THE SDF SECRETARY GENERAL OR THE SHADOW CABINET MINISTER IN CHARGE OF MEDIA INFORMATION. THE INTERNAL MEMO must under no circumstances be distributed in the public space. Sincerely, NGUIDJOL NGAN,, SDF Shadow Cabinet Minister of Information and Media.
Not Unprecedented In Cameroon Politics
As can be seen, the SDF reasons for the decision to boycott some media organs have not been mentioned in the Internal Memo. However, the fact of the matter is that this is not an unprecedented situation or happening in Cameroon politics. For example, the National President of MRC, Prof Maurice Kamto, declared that he would not talk to Vision 4 Tv, and for quite sometimes now, he has not done so. As a result, MRC officials too have tacitly been avoiding any contact with Vision 4 Tv.
Also, the General Secretariat of the Central Committee of the ruling CPDM, is known to a times give firm instructions to the party’s communicators not to accept any invitation from some a media organ. Even the Bamenda based National President of the United Democratic Party, UDP, Bochong El Hadj Lawan Bako, has form quite sometimes now been avoiding to talk to a media organ that he accuses of bias reporting.