WHY I DISAGREE WITH PROF. ABETY ON FRU NDI (PART 1 OF 2)

WHY I DISAGREE WITH PROF. ABETY ON FRU NDI (PART 1 OF 2) In November 2013, I wrote on my blog (www.tmazonga.wordpress.com) « Decisive Francophone Minister, Hesitant Anglophone Ministers» I argued that Francophone ministers are friendly to Cameroon`s main Opposition Leader, John Fru Ndi, while Anglophone ones shy avoid him. Prof. Peter Abety, a former Anglophone Minister wrote and objected to my analysis. Here is my response: Prof Abety said I was “laying unwarranted blame on Anglophone Ministers, as well as giving undue credit to the SDF Chairman”. He says when in government he visited the chairman. But then, since then, how many times has he visited the chairman again? The former minister describes Fru Ndi`s historic (my expression) meeting with President Biya as “belated and certainly from a position of visible weakness.” According to which timetable is it belated? I feel that we should not judge Fru Ndi by the amount of time he took to meet with Paul Biya but rather by the success achieved at the meeting. The resolution of a conflict is by dialoguing. That is what Fru Ndi did with Paul Biya. On that score, Fru Ndi deserves credit because Fru Ndi is the one who went up to Biya. Therefore Fru Ndi approached Biya from a position of “strength”, not “weakness”. Prof. Abety argues that he was part of a (CPDM) delegation that visited Fru Ndi in 1992, led by Prof. Anomah Ngu. According to him, Fru Ndi turned down their advice for dialogue with Biya. He also says Fru Ndi used “words that were not kind to us”. But he does not say what those words were. That aside, did he expect that since the delegation was led by Prof. Anomah Ngu and included himself, the SDF Chairman should just “obey”? However, if the chairman rejected it at the time but later met with Biya, why then not give him the credit for finally doing so? Prof Abety states that “the celebrated South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and other dignitaries also visited the Chairman (…) and tried in vain to convince him to dialogue with the President”. But if Fru Ndi can turn down a proposal from such a celebrity, then should he not be saluted for toughness? ___________________________________________________ FOR THE REST OF THIS STORY (Part 2 of 2), FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW TO THE APPROPRIATE PAGE OF MY BLOG http://tmazonga.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-i-disagree-with-prof-abety-over-fru_4894.html?showComment=1388342968866#c5834667854205473564