The redrawing of political units in the Upper Sanaga section is the cause of the reprimand.
Officials from certain basic units of the Rally of the Democratic People of Cameroon have undertaken to reconfigure or split them without authorization from the Central Committee. Having been informed, the head of the permanent delegation of the CPDM for the Centre, Gilbert Tsimi Evouna, seized the head of the permanent delegation of the party for the Upper Sanaga, Minister Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Kpwatt, to issue a reprimand.
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The former, the hierarchical superior of the latter in the party, said he learned of the initiatives to reconfigure and split certain units of the political formation in the name of revitalization. Praising the dynamic of mobilizing the grassroots in the run-up to the legislative and municipal elections, the party leader in the Centre calls on the leader of the Upper Sanaga to note that this initiative constitutes a violation of the regulations governing the party.
Indeed, “any new division or splitting of a party unit is subject to the prior agreement of the Secretary General of the party’s Central Committee,” he recalls. Gilbert Tsimi Evouna therefore prescribes that the constituencies of the Upper Sanaga remain as they were established during the renewal of the basic bodies’ offices carried out in 2021.
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This situation is another sign of internal desires to consciously or unconsciously overstep the party’s texts as well as the directives of the party’s Central Committee officials. What has so far been contained by the hierarchy could in the future lead to other instances of challenging the Central Committee’s instructions, as was the case during the elections for the head of the Regional Council of the South a few weeks ago.
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