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9 February 2020 twin polls:Gov’t says boycott calls ignored in NW&SW!
9 February 2020 twin polls:Gov’t says boycott calls ignored in NW&SW!
Up to 60 percent voter turnout in Anglophone urban areas; over 80 percent turnout in Kamto’s Upper Plateau constituency.
The Cameroon government is very satisfied that the 9 February 2020 twin polls passed off hitch-free as announced, taking doomsayers off-guard.
Political leaders like Prof. Maurice Kamto of the MRC who called for a boycott must be licking their wounds after turnout in the North West and South West beat expectations. Though the final participation rate has not been declared, trends show that compared to the 7 October 2018 presidential elections, turnout in the two Anglophone regions was higher.
Paul Atanga Nji, minister of territorial administration, told journalists that participation in urban areas like Bamenda, Wum, Ndop , Nkambe (North West), and Kumba, Limbe, Buea, Tiko (South West) was on average 60 percent. Bamenda Urban was in the lead with over 80 percent turnout at the GMI polling station.
The low turnout in rural areas due to separatist threats did not detract from the hitch-free and consequently successful conduct of the elections, he said.
Huge turnouts in some polling stations across the two regions were seen as an indictment of the campaign by Maurice Kamto for a boycott of the polls. The MRC leader had used the insecurity in the Anglophone regions as one of the reasons for his boycott but he is now increasingly viewed with distrust by Anglophone separatists.
Tassang Wilfred, one of the separatist leaders in jail, says he is worse than Paul Biya, warning Anglophones to beware of Kamto who wants to use the Anglophone crisis to get to power and then crush them.
Kamto’s boycott campaign appears to have crumbled most in his Upper Plateau constituency where figures show a voter participation rate of over 80 percent. This, coupled with key resignations from his party over the lack of vision discernible in his boycott gamble, may sound a death knell to Kamto’s political ambitions.
The political class is already being renewed with the emergence of Cabral Libii’s PCRN, Eric Kingue’s MCMC and Issa Tchiroma’s FSNC. Kamto may just wake up one day and find that the moving train of democracy had long left him behind.