The message of the Divisional Campaign President for Logone and Chari was clear at the grand stand of the ceremonial ground in Kousseri yesterday, September 17, when he presided at the official launching of campaign for the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM). "It is time to reconcile and not to settle scores", he told followers of the party who had come from all the four corners of the division to witness the occasion.
Accompanied by Alamine Ousmane Mey, Minister of Finance and one of the dignitaries of the Division, Adoum Gargoum who doubles as Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in Charge of Islamic Affairs, had one important message to deliver to the militants; the challenge for the party is that of mobilisation for the next two weeks preceding the polls. Logone and Chai has signed a pact of fidelity with President Paul Biya and cannot afford to disappoint him, he said. In effect, Logone and Chari Division with its 10 Sub Divisions, occupying an area of 2,130 Square Kilometres and inhabited by an estimated population of 500,000 people is one of the CPDM fiefs in the Far North Region.
Party militants at the base seem to be more convinced of the party's grip of the area as they appeared at the ceremonial ground with placards and banners that all carried messages of victory at the September 30 twin elections. "We say 100% yes to all CPDM candidates; the politics of peace, stability and progress of President Paul Biya". "Let us vote 100% for CPDM candidates to give to the President of the Republic the means to execute the policy of Greater Achievement for the Cameroon of emergence."
Victory is in casting votes and not talking, the Minister of Finance, Alamine Ousmane Mey stated, urging militants to withdraw their voting cards from ELECAM and "massively participate in the polls". He cautioned the population present at the ceremony and those who had no chance of participating in the ceremony not to hand over the destiny of the country to CPDM opponents who are only there for self-satisfaction.
Adoum Gargoum who later presided at a working session at the party Secretariat, saw no reason why CPDM followers should not continue to vote for the party considering the positive balance sheet as reflected in the country's growing economy and achievements in several other sectors.
