Hon Njingum Musa plucks NW SDF bigwig for CPDM.

The Member of Parliament, MP, for Ngoketunjia North Constituency, who doubles as Questor at the National Assembly, has seriously disarmed the SDF by luring the Secretary General of the party in the North West Region, Mafogho Inusa, to resign and join the ruling CPDM.

Mafogho, who doubles as the Coordinator of SDF party in Ngoketunjia Division, dumped the opposition outfit after listening to the counsel of Hon Njingum Musa. 

Hon Njingum, described as a rare political strategist, presented the ‘big catch’ for the ruling party, to the Secretary General of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Nkuété. 

This was on Monday, June 23, 2025, at the CPDM party secretariate in Yaounde, during an audience granted him and the erstwhile SDF bigwig, by Jean Nkuete.

CPDM welcomes Mafogho Inusa

The CPDM party scribe welcomed the new party supporter and saluted his decision to join the ruling party. 

Nkuété is said to have used the opportunity to introduce Mafogho to the inner workings of the CPDM. He is also said to have urged him to immediately get to work at the base and assist the party as it finetunes preparation for the upcoming presidential election.

My ambitions were stifled in SDF

In an interview granted L’Action newspaper, a publication of CPDM party, Mafogho Inusa, said he was charmed by the special and well-coordinated system in the CPDM, as opposed to what obtains in the SDF. 

“Political organisations function like families. Sometimes when you look at the way people function, you realise that there are some families that are more organised and coordinated than others,” Mafogho explained. 

The politician said he was particularly attracted by the “teamwork, the coordinated activities and the focus that the CPDM has towards building unity, peace, tranquility and some kind of development projects in the North West Region.” 

While regretting that his political opinions were being stifled at the SDF, where he actively militated for 35 years, Mafogho said joining the CPDM is an opportunity for him to express his political opinions and contribute to the growth of the nation.

“…it just dawned on me that if I become part of the CPDM family, we will together be able to do things far better than I could have done in the SDF,” he said. 

Urges other SDF bigwigs to join winning team 

Mafogho advised his former SDF party comrades to quit and “choose the winning team, and join the people who have a focus, people who can put their resources together for development, for peace, growth and progress”.

He regretted that the aforementioned qualities, which he said are inherent in the CPDM, are “completely absent in the SDF”. 

“And as I am talking now, if there’s any body listening to me who is still in the SDF, I will say as an advice that they leave the party now and join the CPDM,” he advised. 

Hails voter registration in Ngoketunjia

Mafogho used the opportunity to salute the current rate at voter registration is unfolding in Ngoketunjia Division.

“Averagely, and contrary to what happened in 2020, so many people have registered and are ready to brave the odds to participate in the upcoming presidential election,” he revealed, indicating that the political and security atmosphere in the North West Region is now far better. 

He said the massive participation of most political parties in the National Day celebration “is an indication that the situation has improved tremendously”. 

He expressed hope that “with the massive registration, and the education of all to participate in the election, a lot will go for better”. 

Security situation in NW, SW improving 

Mafogho said the socio-political crisis in the two English-speaking Regions has caused so much problems on the population.

He said efforts made by CPDM party and some of its bigwigs in Ngoketunjia, like Moh Sylvester, Director General of Treasury, Financial and Monetary Cooperation; Hon Njingum Musa and many other CPDM stakeholders across the North West Region, are contributing to return to normalcy. 

“You will bear with me that the kind of pressure and tension that existed in the Region a few years back has piped down. If you get to Bamenda now, if you don’t get into an exceptional situation of violence, you will not know that there is anything happening. The situation is gradually normalising,” Mafogho stated. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3485 of Thursday June 26, 2025