CPDM : Battle to crush Motanga intensified

The battle against Andrew Motanga Monjimba as Section President for the new Fako IA Section of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, has heightened.

On Monday, October 19, during the launching of reorganisation activities in Fako IA, the Chairman of the Reorganising Commission of the Section, Simon Gobina, stated that his Commission will not welcome “any cross boundary militants.”

Limbe, before 2007, was made up of just one Subdivision called Fako I Section. But in 2007, for political exigencies, the President Paul Biya split Limbe into three Subdivisions namely; Limbe I, II and III.

Going by CPDM party rules, Biya, in 2015, further split the lone Fako I Section into three Sections; Fako IA, IB and IC. Following the split, Motanga, who is a resident of Mukundange (Limbe II Subdivision) by dictates of the rules governing the reorganisation exercise, coupled with the prescriptions of the CPDM party rules, qualifies to vie, without any qualms, in the Limbe II Subdivision or Section.

But his attempt to cross over to the Limbe IA or Limbe Central Subdivision, where the seat of the CPDM Party and the City Council is, has fueled resentment from many militants.

It was Motanga’s expressed wish to head the Limbe IA Section that provoked one of the disgruntled militants, Kennedy Fulsi, to file a complaint to the Reorganisation Commission, headed by Gobina. Fulsi wanted to know if one can be allowed to leave one Section and vie for a position in another Section.

Gobina said; “Yes, the problem is if somebody does not understand the guidelines for this particular elections. There is no cross-boundary for any militant. For you to be able to stand, you must have militated in that Section. If you have not militated in the Section, then, you cannot stand for elections,” Gobina said.

The first walls against Motanga’s bid to stand in Fako IA were raised a fortnight ago by Dr. Brisco Ngongang Kemajou and Elive Luma, when Hon Lifaka, at the instance of Hon Musonge, came to Limbe to see if a consensus list could be reached before the elections.

Dr. Ngongang and Elive, who are two militants aspiring for the Fako IA Section, just like Motanga, stormed out of the hall, slamming the consensus exercise. The Lifaka-led team had asked them to line up behind Motanga as the consensus list leader.

In anger, they filed a protest to the Commission, stating that Motanga was not qualified to stand for any elective position in Limbe IA, on grounds that “he is not resident in the Section.” Their protest letter, The Post gathered, has been forwarded to the Fako Divisional Reorganising Committee, headed by Minister Philip Ngole Ngwese. A copy, as at Monday, was also handed to the Limbe IA Committee head.

Meantime, talking to the press, some weeks back, Motanga had stated that he was going to stand for election, if the militants request him to do so.