Thousands of supporters in Wabane guaranteed their votes for the ruling party last weekend.
Supporters of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) filled the grandstand of Wabane in Lebialem Division, South West region, last weekend, to welcome the divisional campaign caravan lead by His Majesty Senator Fon Fontem Njufua, and flanked by parliamentary candidate Hon. Bernard Foju who runs for a third mandate and hosts of other stakeholders.
Further complicated by incessant downpour, the journey to Wabane, driving from its headquarters, Menji, through Dschang in the West region to Batibo in the North West region, and then to Banteng in the South West region, has been described by the CPDM campaigners as herculean. Fortified four wheeled vans used close to two hours to rock and rove down the four kilometer excavated muddy track that link the Wabane Sub Division to the rest of the nation.
Campaigners say the People's Action Party (PAP), currently the main opposition party in Lebialem Division, cannot mend the face of that road. Only the CPDM, according to Senator Fon Fontem Nifua, who is also Questor at the Senate and member of the CPDM central committee, has the resources to "connect Wabane to its headquarters, Menji, with tar and bridges". He told the over two thousand militants and sympathizers, who cheered with hope, that only the ballot would attract desired roads, electricity and effective communication network in the area which is almost completely cut off from the rest of the country due to lack of radio and TV signals.
In his speech, the CPDM section president, who doubles as Mayor of Wabane, Nembo Leku Israel, named the achievements of his party during the past five years to include a litany of administrative infrastructures, sizable funding for macro and micro projects, a bulldozer for the council and a cluster of health and education facilities. He urged comrades to vote massively in order to attract more facilities, particularly the divisional road linking Wabane and Menji through Bechati.
