What Does The CPDM Headquarters Want To Do With Detail Information About Voters Registration In The Diaspora?

The Secretary of International Relations and Human Rights of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Pierre Fogui, former Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the Seal, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 addressed a correspondence to all CPDM Section Presidents in the Diaspora (External Sections). That is Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

In the correspondence, Fogui asked the Section Presidents to transmit to the Central Committee of the CPDM, precisely the General Secretariat of the Central Committee of the party, some detail information about the voters’ registration that was carried out by Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, which ended on August 31.

The Secretary in charge of International Relations and Human Rights at the Central Committee of the CPDM said the party headquarters wants the following information:

• Each CPDM Section President in the Diaspora has to send the total number of registered voters from ELECAM’s register, in his or her constituency, or the area covered by his or her Section. Here the CPDM Headquarters is asking for total number of registered voters, and not only that of CPDM militants.
• Each CPDM Section President in the Diaspora should give the percentage of CPDM militants and sympathizers in the official list of registered voters, in his or her area.
• Each CPDM Section President in the Diaspora should give the list of militants and members of the bureaus of basic organs of the party, in his or her Section.
• Each CPDM Section President in the Diaspora should give the list of militants, and members of the bureaus of basic organs of the party in his or her Section, that have not yet registered their names on the voters’ register, and state the reasons for the failure.

The Secretary of International Relations and Human Rights of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Pierre Fogui, stated in  the correspondence that  all the  Presidents of  the External Sections of the CPDM, are expected to send in the required information to the CPDM Headquarters latest  October 15, 2024.

What Is The CPDM Headquarters Up To?

Meanwhile the question here is, what the CPDM Headquarters or better still the General Secretariat of the CPDM Central Committee, up to? What do they want to do with the information?  This is apparently the first time that the CPDM Headquarters is asking External Sections of the party, for such information about voters’ registration in their different areas.

It will not be out of place to suspect that the demand for this Information on voters’ registration in the Diaspora by the CPDM Headquarters has a link to what happened during the voters; registration exercise this year. That is, the very heavy and unprecedented mobilization that the Cameroon opposition, civil society organizations, activists and stars relentlessly embarked upon this year to get Cameroonians of voting age that have not yet registered, to go out and register, in view of the crucial presidential election expected to hold next year. That seemed to have caused panic in the CPDM that in the past elections benefitted from voters’ apathy and low registration by opposition militants and sympathizers.

Even many  officials of opposition parties in the country, had in the course of the heavy mobilization for voters’ registration this, repeated accused the CPDM of panicking, and of trying to distract the population from focusing on voters’ registration, with things like the MINSEP – FECAFOOT Conflict.

Heavy Mobilization In The Diaspora  

It should also be noted that there was also an unprecedented heavy mobilization of Cameroonians in the Diaspora, who are opposition militants and sympathizers, to register on the voters’ register.   When the CPDM Headquarters, asked each of the party’s Section President in the Diaspora, to give the number of total registered voters in his or her area, and also give the percentage of CPDM militants and Sympathizers that have registered, one begins to suspect that the CPDM is up something funny.

What will the CPDM headquarters do, if information that they receive from Belgium. France, Britain, Nigeria, Gabon, United States or Canada for example, shows that the percentage of registered CPDM militants and sympathizers is just about 25 %, meaning that the opposition militants and sympathizers are in the large majority? There is no doubt that the CPDM, being what it is, will do everything, using any means, to turn he table. After all, ELECAM is more of an organ of the ruling CPDM.