The Ama Tutu Muna led team worked in the United Kingdom for three days and left for the United States.
Named Special Campaign Coordination Commission for the UK, US, Canada and Brazil, the Central Committee Member and her liaison officer Nyake Napoleon Bessong flew to the UK from Paris on Saturday morning at 2 am and by 10 am, the team was at Cameroon High Commission to pay a courtesy visit. The Chargé d’Affaires, sitting in for her boss received them. The meeting helped the team to measure the pulse of the UK.
Due to the prevailing tensed atmosphere in countries with a dominant colony from the NW and SW regions, the team decided to work discretely. Since, the Anglophone problem started, some Cameroonians in the diaspora have become hostile to the Yaounde regime and the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement. Some militants have left the party unannounced. Thus, holding a meeting with an agenda on how to re-elect the CPDM candidate has a security factor and could provoke a negative publicity incident from detractors.
Hence, same Saturday, the team met with the Mission staff and later with the election management body (Elecam) focal point. “This meeting was meant to measure their level of commitment, have a feel of the collaboration we expect from them and to enlist their total support,” the liaison officer said in a statement.
The big meeting of the day was with the Section President Grace Elone, the sub-sections and branch presidents. It was a crucial one in view of the door-to-door campaign strategy and how best to bring back the breakaway registered militants. Engagements and responsibilities, according to the head of the team, were shared out to ensure optimum results.
Monday, October 1, 2018, was another hectic day of meetings with the various family and tribe representatives of ‘our’ registered voters as identified, according to Ama Tutu Muna. Here, engagements were again taken and funds were disbursed to those coming in from afar to vote. A similar meeting took place at the High Commission on Tuesday. In a last checks move, the commission from the Central Committee held a final meeting, grouping the Section President and her aides, the Elecam focal point and the staff of the High commission for a final briefing.
The team jetted off for the US animated by the same verve to garner all the votes for candidate Paul Biya. “We have been sent to work at an extremely sensitive period, and it is our intention to go silently but effectively and secure a remarkable victory without any incident. So far so good, we can assure you”, the team leader noted. UK registered voters with a single polling station at the High Commission. 2011, the first vote in the diaspora, the incumbent won in the UK.