“I am the initiator of the Douala group.
I did not create it so that Anicet could lead it, recruit from it, or exclude anyone from it.
I created it to bring together the declared candidates who met the conditions of Article 121 of the Electoral Code, to bring them together in the presence of a few facilitators — personalities with no intention of running for office themselves.
The goal was to allow these declared candidates to reach a consensus on a pragmatic minimum political program and on a consensus candidate who would be endorsed by their own party.
The approach was honest — it did not involve trading endorsements, nor was there any quest for endorsement for anyone in particular, and obviously, there was no money to be spent or earned by anyone.
There was no ideological debate to be had. What was needed was an electoral strategy to be put in place.
This approach excluded Maurice Kamto and all those who, like him, do not meet the requirements of Article 121 of the Electoral Code. It was strategy, in full compliance with the law.
Anicet, whose support for the vain Upecist criminality I discovered along the way, maliciously took over my initiative and twisted it by bringing in people who had no business being involved (What was Aba Oyono doing there?), and in doing so, he revealed his moral rot — which, by the way, is well known in Upecist circles.
The Douala group doesn’t need a founding document because it’s an initiative. Since when, in your primitive nationalism, does an initiative need a birth certificate?
The intellectual chaos that reigns in your little world, where you spend your time canonizing failure, shows every day why you, the Manidemists, are the architects of the UPC’s implosion. ANICET — like yourself, a small-time militant with no stature — you have no ability to bring people together. If you had even the slightest virtue for uniting, then you should have spent years working to unify the UPC. Schism is the very essence of your organization, and Anicet is a man who thrives on schism. He has always taken part in the proliferation of presidential candidacies to profit financially by serving the well-known interests of the regime.
What was Anicet’s candidacy in 2011 about, if not about making money?
The conditions for public funding of the presidential election campaign at the time made it possible. Anicet wasn’t the only politically greedy opportunist who took advantage of those conditions. The deposit cost 5 million francs, and the regime rewarded those who played its game with 15 million francs under the equal-distribution tranche of campaign funding. Everyone knows the profit margin.
By raising the deposit to 30 million francs, we in the SDF worked to prevent people like Anicet from debasing the presidential election. And now here you are, discovering the business of endorsements.
NB: I fully approve this statement.
Elimbi Lobè
