Ngah Virginie Simone, Politician From Birth

The 33-year-old CPDM councillor for Yaounde VI who began politicking at 15 is seeking a third term.

There are people who join politics out of circumstances, good or bad, but 33-year-old Ngah Virginie Simone, two-time councillor of the Yaounde VI municipality (since 2002) says she is a born politician. "I began politics at the age of 15 at the grassroots level and has progressed in the party over the years," she told Cameroon Tribune yesterday September 15.

Candidate for the September 30 municipal election, the youngest of councillors in her Yaounde VI municipality, hopes to grab a third term when polls closed. Without undermining the strength of other competing political parties in her municipality, notably the UNDP which she says is a political ally, the youth president of the 11th sub-section of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) is counting on what they have achieved in the past to hope for another place in the sun.

"We have developed our municipality and the recent inauguration of the newly-constructed market at Accacia is there to show," she said. The visibly robust lady, Vice Principal at Lyceé de Tsinga calls on the electorate "to vote the original rather than photocopies for any party other than the CPDM is a photocopy".