The move was to canvas for their votes and to enable them understand the ruling party's commitment to peace and development.
As campaigns entered the second and last week, the ruling CPDM Divisional team leader for Manyu, Professor Peter Agbor Tabi who is also Deputy Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic shuttled back to the Divisional capital, Mamfe, to take the pulse of the exercise he had launched seven days ago.
The chief campaigner expressed delight that the CPDM message was being rattled through the breadth of Manyu by Sub-divisional teams. Professor Agbor Tabi's campaign expedition to Akwaya had earned him the decamping of over 30 youths from opposition parties to the CPDM. In Mamfe Central, the CPDM campaign coordinator, His Royal Highness Chief Senator Tabetando George, was pushing campaigns through the 11 villages of the area. Yesterday, the Mamfe Central caravan was in Bachuo Ntai I and II.
Their convoy had already explored Besongabang, Etemetek, Nchang, Okoyong, Nfaitok, Small Mamfe, and Egbekaw. The CPDM manifesto was read out at every stopover and what they called "demerits" of opposition parties was exposed. They presented their 25 candidate- Councillors and the three Manyu parliamentary candidates. Among the major promises to the electorate by the CPDM featured farm-to-market roads, pipe-borne water, dependable electricity supply, water drainage, and a true accountability of public office. In addition to pledged amenities, the CPDM campaigners promised to bring genuine concord and unity among a visibly divided people.
To the youth, the campaigners promised to work towards securing jobs for them and organising them into economic interest groups. On the other hand, the campaigners castigated lies telling and recalled the attention that President Paul Biya is paying in Manyu through the trans-African highway from Ekok to Bamenda via Mamfe, the various schools created in the area and the Health facilities provided, among others.
The social atmosphere during campaigns remained peaceful in Mamfe and even the heavy down pour of rain in the afternoon did not prevent the various parties from penetrating the quarters and villages on near-impassable roads.
