Joe Dinga Pefok
25 April 2008
The Secretary General of the CPDM, Emmanuel René Sadi, is said to have rejected calls by some nine Wouri 1 CPDM Section executive members for him to destitute the Section President, Jean Jacques Malapa Lengue, who also doubles as Mayor of Douala 1.
This was the "good news" the Section President told his supporters in Douala on April 20. Sadi was quoted as having reinstated Lengue as Section President, describing the decision, which declared him fired from the post, as illegal.
It worthy to note that nine of the 15 members of the Executive Bureau of the Wouri I recently constituted themselves into a disciplinary committee and said they had impeached the Section President. Lengue, who grabbed the post of Section President from Hon Henri Ntone during last year's reorganisation of the basic organs of the CPDM, has fallen out with a majority of members of his Executive Bureau.
At the meeting, which declared Lengue sacked, he was, among other things, accused of violating the text of the party. The Section President was also accused of not showing respect for other members of the Executive and for taking decisions unilaterally.
Problems between the Section President and the bureau members started shortly after the Executive came to office last year as the executive accused him of manoeuvring the composition of the list during July 22 municipal elections.
Even though Lengue has been declared reinstated, the crisis in Wouri 1 CPDM Section is said to be degenerating. With a majority of the Executive members against him, the Section President has only five members either supporting him or sitting on the fence. It would thus be difficult for the Section President to effectively work, especially in a situation where there is need for a Bureau meeting to hold.
However, some observers think that CPDM elites of Douala 1, especially the Secretary General at the Presidency, Laurent Esso, to whom such a crisis is most likely a big embarrassment, will try to reconcile the warring factions in the Executive Bureau.
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