Breaking News - Ni John Fru Ndi, Will Not Be a Candidate for the 2018 Presidential Election

In addition, very credible sources to the SDF, entrusted in Cameroondailyjournal that the emblematic leader of the political party leader of the opposition, has expressed his desire to leave the head of the party of the balance.

Scheduled for a single day, Saturday, January 13, 2018, the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Front was finally held over two days.

Until this morning of Monday, January 15, 2018, the final communiqué is still not available. But according to very credible sources within the SDF, some groundbreaking decisions have been made, such as the change in the party’s candidate for the next presidential election.

“The debates lasted two days because it was necessary to settle the amendments to be submitted to the next congress to be held from 22 to 24 February 2018. The most important of the amendments concerned the creation of a kind of honorary presidency for the chairman. . John Fru Ndi who manifested a more and more certain desire to withdraw. Thus, the succession is prepared, the management of the party’s affairs will soon be entrusted to another senior party official.

Breaking News - Ni John Fru Ndi, Will Not Be a Candidate for the 2018 Presidential Election

In addition, still in the wind of change, it was decided that the chairman will not be the candidate of the SDF in the presidential election of 2018 “entrusted on Cameroon daily journal, an official of the SDF who took part during the weekend at the long awaited meeting of the Executive Committee of the Balance Party in Bamenda, North West Region.

Since its creation in a very tense context in 1990 due to Cameroon’s return to multi-party politics, the SDF has participated in three presidential elections respectively in 1992, 2004 and 2011 with the same candidate, Ni John Fru Ndi. And each time, the irremovable chairman came in second place after Paul Biya, according to the official results.