Senatorial Elections: More reason why SDF may crash out in the North West
By Nukapuh P.
It is less than 24 hours to the 2023 senatorial elections in Cameroon. Municipal and regional councilors will vote the next set of senators who will represent the upper house of assembly in the next 5 year.
In the North West region where members are contesting for 7 seats with each division having a seat, only the CPDM and SDF political parties are contesting in the entire region.
The Social Democratic Front, SDF political party may slightly crash out in the North West region, taking into consideration that only municipal and regional councilors are to vote.
Out of 34 municipal councils in the North West region, only one council (Bamenda III) belongs to SDF. 33 others are under the ruling CPDM political party.
Meaning only councilors of the Bamenda III council and few regional councilors are sure potential voters for SDF in the entire region.
Campaigns are due to end on Saturday night, according to the electoral laws.
Recently, members of SDF in the North West region accused those of the CPDM for confining councilors in hotels, so that they could vote only the CPDM on Sunday.
A voice message circulated from one SDF candidate, revealing how they were unable to carry on campaigns because councilors were no where to be found.
“Campaigns are not going on because CPDM has lodged all councilors in hotels and deprived us from talking to the councillors. Is this how campaigns is done? “They even go ahead intimidating councillors by asking them to take oaths to vote only CPDM in the North West…”
All these challenges, coupled with the criss rocking Fru Ndi’s party may cause the party to lose all 7 seats in the region if things are not sorted the right way.
Voting shall take place in all 7 divisions. We gathered that councilors and voting materials are all present in the various divisions.
During the last senatorial elections in 2018, SDF overpowered CPDM in Ngoketunjia and won the lone seat for Kemende Henry, who was shot to death in 2022 in Bamenda in relation to the Anglophone crisis.
