JB Ndeh Dissolves NW CPDM Coordination Unit

By Tetuh Mbah

At last, the protracted witch hunting, backstabbing and power struggle among the North West CPDM elite have led to the dissolving of the North West CPDM Coordination Unit of the section presidents.

The bombshell came when the founder cum the coordinator of the coordination unit, John Begheni Ndeh, after consultations with his executive and the council of the wise, dissolved the coordination unit.

News about the dissolving of the coordination unit was contained in a press release issued shortly after the Saturday, December 29, 2012 extraordinary meeting of the coordination unit at the Bamenda congress hall. According to the communiqué, John B. Ndeh stressed that dissolving the coordination unit of the North West section presidents was in keeping with the CPDM party new text guiding the party.

During the extraordinary meeting that ended in the dissolving of the coordination unit, the coordinator, John B Ndeh was frank to explain how the coordination unit helped to make the entire CPDM party vibrant in the region. He pointed out that before the formation of the unit, the entire North West region could only boast of one CPDM parliamentarian and a council both in Balikumbat. “Today, we pride ourselves with 19 parliamentarians and 18 councils”. He lauded the section presidents who worked hard using the strategies eked out by the coordination unit to deliver the goods.

 

Genesis of Crisis

The crisis in the coordination unit and the entire North West CPDM elite kick started in 2010. During the Head of State, President Paul Biya’s visit to Bamenda in December 2010, all the CPDM elite of the region fought among themselves fiercely to either present a speech or gift to the President on behalf of the North West CPDM.

In a bid to settle the imbroglio, several meetings held with the then North West Governor, Abakar Ahamat, intervening. In the end, John B Ndeh was chosen to present the gifts on behalf of the North West CPDM militants given that he was the coordinator of the North West CPDM coordination unit of the section presidents.

John B. Ndeh’s choice did not go well for most CPDM elite who wanted to make themselves known to the Head of State and possibly, to be elected into government given that cabinet reshuffle was expected after the 2011 presidential election.

One heated debate was that the then Mezam I-Bamenda CPDM section president, Atanga Nji Paul ought to have presented either a speech or a gift to the Head of State not John B. Ndeh, who also doubles as Mezam II-Santa CPDM section president and coordination unit president. Paul Atanga Nji’s supporters opined that as the Mezam I-Bamenda CPDM section president, he was ipso facto, the host of the occasion and so it was just fitting that he presented the speech to the president and no one else.

Since 2010, the North West CPDM elite continued to be in disarray with infighting, backstabbing and witch hunting being order of the day.

Chronicle gathered that a series of petitions were sent to the CPDM party hierarchy in Yaounde arguing that there’s no structure in the CPDM text as, “Coordination Unit of section presidents” and so the North West coordination unit of section presidents must be dissolved.

It was on this backdrop that the North West coordination unit of section presidents was dissolved last December 2012 for peace to reign among the CPDM elite.