Focusing On Essentials!

As the momentum for the October 12 Presidential polls gathers steam, Cameroonians are certainly looking up to the 12 aspirants to hear what they have as political programmes to make life worth living for the citizens. With the latest litigations tabled before the Constitutional Council all rejected, those who registered to vote now know that the emblems and colours of some political parties on campaign ballot papers contested by others will not change and President Paul Biya whose candidacy was challenged will well seek re-election. 
While some observers saw in the most recent litigations a waste of time and political grandstanding by some of the complainants, other schools of thought believe whatever is previewed by the laws of the land concerning an election as important as that of the President of the Republic cannot be neglected. This explains why the Constitutional Council, whose ruling on electoral matters is final, took all the pains to listen to the litigants before handing down its judgement. That too is democracy, even if others see some of the complaints as childish and distraction. After all in politics, like in any high-stake competition, an aspirant uses whatever means to challenge and hopefully weaken an opponent.
With the pre-electoral Court game over, the Presidential hopefuls should now focus on the basics and tell Cameroonians how they intend to better their lives and livelihoods. Citizens in their vast majority would certainly love to hear how A or B can lift them from the not-so-good road infrastructure so that the accompanying development can follow. They would be eager to hear how the candidates are planning to transform the huge natural resources the country has into growth purveyors, how agro-pastoral production could surpass local demand for the population to eat to their fill and sell surpluses to ready markets within and without the central African sub region. How the country can move from the export of mostly raw materials to embracing local processing which adds value, creates jobs and generates wealth. 
The least of which is not how the numerous human resources being churned out of higher institutions of learning, vocational and professional training centres can conveniently find jobs to be able to live and let others live. In fact, the problems of the country are known to many and the population would love to hear what solutions are being proposed to them and not necessarily which candidate knows or can interpret the law more than the other or who is more handsome than the other. These are all trivialities that can never change anything in life.
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