SDF ScribeDumps Her Function As Party Secretary General, 3rd To Go

By I.B. Nji

                                                 Prof Tamanjong Elizabeth and Ni John Fru Ndi

Dr. Mrs. Tamanjong Elizabeth two time appointed Secretary General of

the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front SDF has

resigned from her functions as the party Scribe. In a strongly worded

letter of resignation dated 12 February 2015 and addressed to the

Party Chieftain Ni john Fru Ndi which Eden procured a copy, she

expressed her reasons for calling it quit of her post as SG, a

position she held since 2006.

This was made public during the party's maiden 2015 NEC meeting that

held from February 14 to 15 in Bamenda at the chairman's Ntarinkon

residence. This resignation of the first ever female Secretary General

of the SDF party  came at a time and day when lovers were rather busy

sharing love messages, gifts and pledging more commitments to each.

SDF's valentine gift from a militant thyat claims that the party is so

dear to her was a resignation from a position entrusted to her by the

national chairman when election in to that post was scrapped after the

debacle with Prof Asonganyi Tazoacha.

 In her well worded letter, Dr. Mrs. Tamanjong based her reason for

resigning on the fact that in the last 15 years the party she believes

in so much because of the laid down constitution and principles was

drifting away from its initial vision of leading the country to a

genuine democracy. Hear her, "We have lost  even the values and

principles that we resolutely stood for in the early 90s; values  and

principles such as - social justice, equal opportunities, transparency

and accountability in management of party affairs, to name just these

few. On many occasions, i have attempted to draw the attention of the

party hierarchy to this sad phenomenon but to no avail."

the learned lady made her point in a clear cut manner and recommended

that all is not lost given that the party can be revolutionized to

still spring back to its enviable position that it once occupied in

the heart of Cameroonians. She went further to state how this

revolution should take place such as;

1) The three power structures 0of the party, namely: NEC, NAC and NIC

should play complementary roles and hence be chaired by different

personalities, in order to ensure checks and balance in the party.

2) Let the post of secretary General revert to being elective, as it

once was before 2006 convention. Thus section 13.3(b)-page 55 of the

SDF constitution should be amended.

3) State subventions should be used to fund party structures in order

to revitalize the party.

4) The Socialist women and youth movement should be empowered to give

them a sense of belonging and thereby strengthening the party.

She ended with a lamentation that haven tried unsuccessfully to revert

the spirit, Ideals and commitments of the 90s, she therefore resign

from her functions as secretary General of the party with a firm

conviction of remaining a committed militant of the party and still

willing to contribute in any other ways to move the party forward. The

outgone her letter thanked all those who assisted her in her

stewardship as SG saying SDF will for long remain dear to her.

according to her analogy, she became a militant of the Social

democratic front in 1991 and has occupied varied positions of

responsibilities ranging from the Center Provincial treasurer  from

1991through many other positions at different times to the Secretary

general of the party in 2006 till the date of resignation.

chairman Fru Ndi after officially making public the resignation of the

SG at the NEC meeting, he remarked that after looking back at what Dr.

Mrs Tamanjong has put in over the years as scribe of the party, he can

only but congratulate and wish her well in her decision to resign.

Chairman made it clear that resigning from a position is a democratic

right and that if anybody feels that the weight of a particular

responsibility was too heavy and decides to out the load down without

breaking the content then it is a good thing.

However pundits hold that the post of secretary general of the SDF

over the years has been a bone of contention beginning with the

pioneer SG  Singa Asanga who was the Chairman's  cousin through Prof

Asonganyi Tazoacha to present day Dr. Mrs Tamanjong. The problems have

been the same from one Secretary General to the other who felt that

that position which is supposed to be the pivot of the party was

rather a ceremonial post given that many are the dealings that go on

without the knowledge of the party scribe and he or she gets to learn

of any such dealings as any other militant of the party long after.