The September 30, 2013 legislative elections in Manyu Division of the South West Region will go into history as that in which President Paul Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, CPDM that has won key elections since the re-introduction of multi-party democracy in the country will face two parties owned by Manyu indigenes. For the first time CPDM candidates will face the uprising People's Action Party, PAP of Hon Ayah Paul Abine and Cameroon Democratic Party, CDP of Benz Enow Bate.
Hon. Ayah Paul, the second class traditional ruler of Akwaya town born in 1950, leader of the PAP list for the September 30 legislative election, enjoys a two-year term of office in the National Assembly having entered the Lower House of Parliament in 2002 as CPDM MP. He resigned from the CPDM, created PAP and ran for the October 2011 presidential election coming fifth. Benz Enow Bate, electrical engineer, Chairman of the Cameroon Democratic Party, CDP and the list leader for legislative election is not new in Manyu politics. His party ran for the 2007 municipal election in the Mamfe Council and he also submitted nomination papers to run for the 2011 presidential election though rejected.
These are the two new-comers who will compete with the CPDM list headed by Nsosie Susana Ebah epse Okpu. At least for the National Assembly, the CPDM candidates have not been in the frontline since 2002. The CPDM however, remains well implanted in Manyu, prove being that it is the only party running for all the four councils, a pointer to future victories.
