Through Denis Nkemlemo, SDF National Secretary for Communication, the party dissociates itself from the position being spread by a certain Tchawa Bertrand, clad in an SDF attire and claiming to be an SDF member who has taken to social media to call for street demonstrations Saturday, June 8 "to claim the victory of a certain individual at the last presidential elections in Cameroon".

Nkemlemo in a word of caution addressed to members of the SDF and the general public Friday, June 7, 2019 writes that the said Tchawa is an impostor.

"Tchawa Bertrand is one of the opportunists that joined the SDF  to use his position as District Chairman for Douala 3 Electoral District to work his way clandestinely to the US on false claims of seeking for asylum from political persecution in Cameroon. He does not belong to any structure of the SDF since he left Cameroon in 2007. He cannot therefore speak to the SDF or represent our party in any way.  Those doing business with this impostor do so at their own risk and peril. Considering that this is not his first impersonation of our party, the SDF reserves the right to take necessary judicial actions to put him out of these diabolical activities," Nkemlemo writes.

The SDF National Secretary for Communication says their position on the last presidential elections in Cameroon was clearly made known at the Constitutional Council, through Candidate Joshua Osih and their team of lawyers that defended the party's case. The position, Nkemlemo maintains,  was reiterated in the first National Executive Committee meeting held after the said elections to "pave a new way forward".

"The SDF's greatest preoccupation now," Nkemlemo insists, "is the carnage going on in the North West and South West Regions which has wrecked the foundation on which this nation stands and brought to existence one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the 21st century. We will not, therefore, accept to be distracted  from this concerning issue by those who keep crying over spilled milk over the last presidential elections and who have turned street demonstrations to just political gesticulations without any care of how effective they are."

The word of caution continues thus: "The organisers of these street manifestations are well known  and we vehemently condemn the attitude of a certain political party that has constantly shown a lot of disrespect to the SDF by mischievously and dishonestly trying to associate us to some of their dishonourable acts; and doing everything to tarnish our image in the vain belief that they can only progress if we regress.

"You will recall the lies they spread on the eve of the presidential election that the SDF sold its victory in the Presidential election of 1992...that the regional chairman of the Littoral Hon. Jean Mitchel Nintcheu had asked all supporters of the SDF candidate to vote theirs; you remember the march against embezzlement of public funds meant for AFCON 2019 that the Littoral Regional Chairman organised in Douala on the 23rd of January, but this party precipitately fixed theirs two days after and ask the SDF to cancel hers to reinforce theirs.

"It is in this logic that the above impostor - Tchawa Bertrand does not only want to associate the SDF in an event that she did not participate in its preparation, but in his video action consciously articulates hate language against the SDF.

"By the development of these events, we are very sure that the blocking of Hon. Nintcheu Jean Michel at his residence last Saturday 1st June 2019 by the forces of law and order when some few members of his political party were on the street is not unconnected with the cabal to associate to associate him at all cost with the lame demonstrations of this political party."

Nkemlemo only fell short of calling the name of Professor Maurice Kamto who led the Cameroon Renaissance Movement at the October 7, 2018 elections and officially emerged second but has since claimed victory.

Nkemlemo ends by recalling that the Social Democratic Front has always condemned and continues to condemn the restrictions of public liberties imposed in Cameroon and the imprisonment of people because of their political ideas by the obdurate regime in power in Cameroon since 1982.

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