Aware that the Party will be a prime target in upcoming elections slated for 2025, the CPDM has decided to build up the capacity of its militants with requisite tools to face the battle.
For the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, the CPDM, to attain the prized destination – winning the elections of 2025, the journey begins now. It is time to roll up sleeves, act consistently, methodically and effectively based on winning strategies. It is time to “reinforce teamwork, maintain discipline, avoid all forms of division, and increase the supervision of our voters to protect them from all forms of manipulation… ensure the registration of militants on voters’ rolls in view of future elections.” These were Jean Nkuete’s words in Yaounde, at the start of a series of working visits that will take him to all ten regions of the country.
If the flame of militancy has remained kindled in the Centre region for so long, it is thanks to the arduous work of presidents of Cells, Branches and Sections who have remained in perpetual communion with the base. To the SG of the Central Committee, it is evident that the CPDM is faring quite well here, but this assurance ought not blind the political leaders to mutations which could rock the steady CPDM boat. This explains the Party scribe’s call for the region’s political elite to assimilate the lessons dispensed by the party’s academy in order to remain an unshakable fortress given the central and capital role it has in achieving the 2025 objective.
If the upcoming municipal and presidential elections are attracting so much interest, it is because they involve vital issues for the country and the CPDM with regard to peace, national unity and institutional stability. Basic organ leaders have been reminded of the cosmopolitan nature of the Centre region and how to integrate this fact alongside youth and gender when drawing up lists to avoid frustrations that would give detractors the leeway to do harm. And so to Professor Ndembi Yembe, it is time to look within, understand the workings of the changing times because all political parties worth the salt are preoccupied by issues of diversity, sharing, and the consideration of gender and minority groups. These and more he stressed are factors of concord, peace and appeasement which leaders have to set right before elections.
For the party’s hierarchy, all activities have to be fundamentally geared towards preparing for the elections and this explains the move to accompany militants on this path and give them the necessary tools to orientate their actions. Such themes as the management of voters and the party’s electoral registers, discipline which is a success factor for the party, the need for cooperation between the various leaders, the consideration of youth and gender in the electoral process will be expatiated on during the trainings in all ten regions.
Claudette CHIN
