Valentine Mbai Aquasama and his team are combing the nooks and crannies of Ndian IX Section to ensure that all militants are enrolled ahead of the 2025 elections.
The directives of the SG of the Central Committee of the CPDM were clear – target militants of the party, ensure they are duly registered. The goal of the executive of the Section is to add at least one thousand voters to the existing number on electoral rolls. “Our action plan has been well on course thanks to the relentless efforts of our elites like Sen Ernestine Mosongo, Mr Anjeh toni Beto, Mayor Edonde Cornelius, Mr. Ekpo Isidore and others”. In the hope to have all militants be in possession of their cards once they are produced, the Section’s executive plans to hold town hall meetings during which the cards will be handed to the militants.
A major setback in the process has been the remarked lack of ID cards blamed on the fact that the militants do not have birth certificates. “To surmount this, the elites from the division, principally Prime Minister Dion Ngute alongside others have gone all out to facilitate the establishment of these documents, to enable the militants get registered on the electoral register in preparation for the forthcoming elections”. With Kombo Itindi being a completely maritime subdivision, access to remote areas is a constant challenge but members of thye executive of the section have not allowed this to deter them from their course. Together with the regional councillor, and the mayor “we from time to time support staff of the Elecam with transportation to get to the nooks and crannies of the section… we make the means available whenever we are set on this mission.”
It is said that one who intends to embark on a journey takes the requisite dispositions well ahead of time. With the approach of 2025 and the expected elections, CPDM militants under the leadership of grassroots authorities have been doing the ground work, gearing up for the electoral rendezvous. With the voter’s card being the lone ticket that will give access to the ballot box and consequently secure victory for the CPDM, the party’s elite in Ndian is putting in the work to ensure that militants are registered and are in possession of their voter’s cards. According to Valentine Mbai Aquasama, Section President for Ndian IX, the party celebrated its 39th anniversary on March 24, and having evaluated the road covered mapped out new means of upping the numbers of registered militants. The ongoing voter registration campaign seeks to galvanise youths, men and women who have not yet been registered to do so. “The voter registration campaign is actually carried out with the support of the Permanent Divisional Delegation but fronted by the section presidents of the various wings and in collaboration with the mayor” Valentine Mbai says. Being an exclusively CPDM municipality, he quips that directives spelled out by Jean Nkuété are being respected, meeting militants at their door steps and interacting person to person.
Claudette CHIN
