President Paul Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) will be on the political limelight Saturday, June 2, 2012 with information and sensitization seminars that will take place simultaneously in the 10 regional headquarters of the country.
Before leaving for the regions, members of the party's General Secretariat, Follow-up Unit of Seminars and the Central Committee delegations will hold a preparatory and briefing session with the Secretary General of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Nkuete at its Yaounde Conference Centre headquarters today, May 31, 2012.
The Secretary General of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Nkuete in a press release stated that the information and sensitization seminars are within the framework of strengthening the capacities of party officials to ensure its proper functioning. It is for this reason that the seminars will bring together substantive and alternate members of the Central Committee, CPDM, WCPDM and YCPDM national bureau members, Section Presidents of all wings of the party, CPDM Members of Parliament, Mayors, Government Delegates to City Councils, members of the Economic and Social Council, Presidents of Consular Chambers and finally First and Second Class traditional rulers.
The upcoming seminars will be veritable training and mobilization forums for party officials, the first major session after the ordinary congress of September 15 and 16, 2011 in Yaounde, the October 9, 2011 presidential election with the brilliant re-election of the CPDM National President, Paul Biya. The seminars also come after the celebration of the 27th anniversary of the creation of the CPDM on March 24 during which party officials started mobilizing supporters for biometric recompilation of the voters' lists in preparation of legislative and municipal elections. The North West CPDM officials coordinated by Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang, used the party's anniversary to start preparing for the elections. Party officials were schooled in a seminar on the theme, "Consolidating achievements and building new dynamics," at the Bamenda Congress Hall on March 22, 2012.
The stakes of Saturday's CPDM seminars are evidently clear. The party will certainly be evaluated for the first time after the September 2011 elective ordinary congress, instructions from hierarchy handed down to the grassroots and problems of the grassroots echoed. The ultimate goal will be to ascertain the strength of the party, mobilize supporters to register on the electoral roll when the biometric recompilation of the registers will be launched and prepare for upcoming elections.
