The day before the first meeting of the National executive comittee (NEC) you Social democratic front (SDF) held on December 2, Joshua Osih made appointments to the Shadow cabinet, the party’s shadow government. It is a team of 18 ministers and as many deputies, a mixture of old and new, old and new, men and women; but with a larger margin of Anglophones, an incursion into the North. And above all a technocratic coloring. Thus, we will have as minister of sports the former international volleyball player Charlie Tchikandathe architect Fobi Nchinda to Urban Development and Housing, the Dr Henry Joko to health,…
Joshua Osih rewarded the old school supporters who remained loyal to him, at a time when many former executives were following Jean Michel Nitcheu et Jean Tsomelou in the G27+, these executives who defected as part of the crisis of renewal of the party’s governing bodies. So, an old hand from the professor’s frame Jean Takoungang who learned his lessons in party communications and translation, before taking a step back due to illness, bounces back this time as Minister of the Interior. “ This is our Atanga Nji!“, has already been renamed this unconditional party, who, during the difficult electoral equation at the head of the party, already pleaded for ” a devil we know, [plutôt] than an angel we ignore “. Highlighting the bilingualism of candidate Joshua because “ Today we can no longer tolerate a president who is not bilingual at the head of the SDF“. An argument which pleaded in the sole favor of the former first vice-president.
Challenges
The appointments which replace those made by the late Chairman It’s John Fru in May 2022, were carried out at the discretion of those concerned, and of its new executive whose members only got to know each other during this first meeting of the party executive, held in Nkolfoulou, at the Yaoundean residence of the late founder of the Balance Party. “ I did not expect that ; I found out about it from someone other than the president», assure Fabien Assigana, the party’s new recruit, appointed Minister of Public Works, engineer by profession. “ I discovered my assistant during the presentations», Testifies another minister of Joshua Osih.
This new team has already started work since we made contact on December 2, 2023. “ We have no more time to waste because 2025 is tomorrow», a party executive has already understood. And ” if we want to win an election we have to be a team player», Launched the new president of the SDF. The man’s challenge is to restore the SDF to its place as the undisputed leader of the Cameroonian opposition, failing to win the presidential election, as the founding fathers of the SDF wished. parti du 26 May 1990, without achieving it 33 years later. In the meantime, the political class is in the process of renewing itself, with leadership increasingly contested in the face of power, notably with Maurice Kamto of the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC) and Cabral Libi’i of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation (Pcrn). Death and 8.2 decimated the backbone of the party author of the slogan “ Suffer don finish“. The new team will have to try to save what’s left.
