Cameroon: Woman to stand for presidency

  1. Posted on Tuesday 26 October 2010 - 10:39
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    Walter Wilson Nana, AfricaNews reporter in Buea, Cameroon
    The Chairperson of the Strategic Committee of Cameroon's frontline opposition party, the Social Democratic Front, SDF, Edith Kabbang Walla, popularly known as Kah Walla, has resigned from the party and declared her intention to run for the 2011 presidential election.
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    She made the declaration over the weekend, while presiding at a rally that held in the campus of La Gaeite College in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital.

    Kah Wallla, who was also an SDF Councilor at the Douala I Urban Council, handed a copy of her resignation letter to the Littoral Provincial Chairman of the SDF, Hon. Jean Michel Nintcheu.

    Before her resignation, Kah Walla had been at odds with the National Executive Committee of the SDF, over her decision to encourage the population to participate in the ongoing voter registration in Cameroon, under the canopy of her civil society group, Cameroon O`Bosso.

    According to some insiders of the SDF, Kah Walla’s stance is considered an act that went contrary to the decision of the SDF asking militants to boycott the registration process being organized by the elections organizing and monitoring body in Cameroon, dubbed - Elections Cameroon, ELECAM.

    Claiming that the resignation would enable her devote her time to Cameroonians, Kah Walla told journalists in Yaounde that she will not militate in any party but run for the presidential race as an independent candidate. “The time is now for change to be effected in Cameroon. I believe that it is from above that I can change this country positively,” she told the press.

    Kah Walla pledged to ignite constitutional and institutional reforms which would guarantee the independence of the National Assembly.

    She promised further to institute electoral reforms to guarantee free and fair elections as well as ensure decentralisation to enable the equitable distribution of material and human resources.

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