RIP Fru Ndi

Tributes are being paid to SDF founder John Fru Ndi who has died after a period of illness. He was 81.

John Fru Ndi was once the bright hope of the Cameroons, having dared to launch the SDF in a one party state.

He is widely believed to have won LRC presidency in 1992 though the result was announced for the incumBENT REGIME and endorsed by their mentors.

As soon as that happened it was always going to be downhill from there and, sure enough, SDF gradually accepted the shilling to become a facade opposition for the one party state to continue to claim political plurality.

Worse still, when LRC declared war in 2017 and started killing “his constituents” he did not show the same daring he had when founding the SDF. He instead became the pathetic figure who was reduced to the role of an apologist for LRC atrocities on what his party still insisted on calling “anglophones” in a vain and ironic posture of being part of “the elites”.

It would appear he had too much to lose by then.

History may well record JOHN FRU NDI as a victim of FrancAfrique who was thwarted at the one instance when he could have become truly influential in the history of the Cameroons.

RIP JOHN FRU NDI