Stumbling and Mumbling: The Trouble with the late President Ahidjo’s daughter
Debates are a lousy way of presenting facts. In Cameroon, debates are naturally polarizing with CPDM and SDF partisans always expected to advocate that all benefits lie on their side. This disguises what might be crucial facts, that either position has costs.
Reasonable people might believe any of the following: that the Paul Biya decree signed on Wednesday, June 29, 2016, appointing Aminatou Ahidjo, as chair of the Congress Hall in Yaoundé, with benefits in kind provided for by the regulations in force, stated in Article 2 of the presidential text was a good thing in our Cameroon political story.
Secondly, against the advice of her mother, Germaine Ahidjo in exile in Senegal, where the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo, the first Head of State of Cameroon was buried after his death in 1989, Aminatou Ahidjo decided upon her return to Cameroon to join against all odds in 2013 the ranks of the ruling CPDM, the political party of President Paul Biya, successor and nemesis of the Ahidjo family.
Cameroon Concord News Group understands she lobbied for a ministerial position and failed in her October 2, 2015 cabinet reshuffle bid. The CPDM Congress Hall is an impressive infrastructure for the organization of events in Yaounde. The Agbaw-Ebai Debate is asking our readers: Should her actions be interpreted as a form of betrayal?
15/07/2016 @ 09:40
What goes around turns around. Cameroon is a country and not an estate own by some few persons. Just like the father did to others some should also taste how it works. President Biya has given her that she deserves so there’s no need for much debates. After all it was his father not she who had whatever relationship with. She now has the chance to build for herself all that she crave. There are millions of other Cameroonian sons and daughter who do not have such opportunity. By the way, have the Cameroonian public realised that in spite all the president hasn’t appointment any of his kids to any posts as is case in other Africa countries. Guinea Equator, Uganda, Togo, Gabon etc. This lady and her following should not distract the the Cameroonian people for there are even more important themes to be worried about. Until then Good blessed Cameroonian.