John Fru Ndi
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Ni John Fru Ndi (born 7 July 1941) is a Cameroonian politician.
He founded the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party in Cameroon, in 1990, and he has led the party since then.
Life and career
Fru Ndi was born in Baba II, near Bamenda, in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. When Ni was born, he was given the name Ni (a mark of honor). He attended school in Cameroon at the Baforchu Basel Mission and the Santa Native Authority before going to Nigeria to study (at Lagos City College) and work in 1957. He returned to Cameroon in 1966 and started selling vegetables. He owned a bookstore in Bamenda from 1979 to 1988, and was involved with the Lions Club International branch in Bamenda from 1987 to 1988. At the 1988 parliamentary election, he was a candidate of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC) in the Mezam Central constituency, losing to a different RDPC candidate.
In 1990, Ndi, the founder of the SDF, an opposition party, was born. At the First Ordinary National Convention, held in Bamenda in May 1992, he was elected as the SDF's National Chairman.
He made a strong case against President Paul Biya in October 1992, defeating him by 36% of the vote against Biya's 40% (in Fru Ndi's stronghold, Northwest Province), winning 86 percent. This election was branded fraudulent by the opposition, as were Fru Ndi and third place opposition candidate Maigari Bello Bouba unsuccessfully requested that the Supreme Court have annulled the results. Fru Ndi was detained in late October 1992 in the midst of widespread unrest in the North-West Province that followed the 1992 election. He was released about a month after about a month. Fru Ndi and his partner Rose Lavaux attended the inauguration of United States President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. Both Rose and McClegg were photographed with Clinton and Clinton's wife Hillary Clinton, and Fru Ndi's presence at the function in Cameroon gave the appearance of authority and legitimacy in light of Fru Ndi's claim to have won the 1992 election.
The SDF and other opposition parties also decided not to run in the presidential election in October 1997. Fru Ndi was re-elected as SDF Chairman at the party's fifth congress in April 1999, receiving 1,561 votes against his opponent, Chretien Tabetsing.
Fru Ndi was the SDF candidate in the 2010 presidential election, but official results show he came in second, receiving 17.40 percent of the vote against 70.9 percent for Biya. He had his best showings in Northwest Province (68.1%)), followed by West Province (45.04%), Littoral Province (32.7%), and Southwest Province (30.59%).
Fru Ndi alleged misconduct in the 2007 parliamentary election and called for its cancellation; the SDF gained the second most seats in the election, but the governing RDPC gained the overwhelming majority of seats, with the SDF winning the second highest number of seats. Fru Ndi said that Biya should recognize him as the opposition's official leader after the poll.
Fru Ndi said on November 14, 2007 that he would be able to meet with Biya. Biya said he had not invited him to meet and that he had tried to visit Biya several times, contradicting Biya's statement on French television that Fru Ndi had not responded to his invitation.
Fru Ndi called for a national day of remembrance on April 21, 2008, to honor those who died during the 2008 anti-government demonstrations and Cameroon's "death of democracy." Fru Ndi said that the 2008 Constitution revisions were supposed to enable President Biya to be a lifelong dictator of Cameroon, and that the reforms would institutionalize mistrust, citizenship, and inertia.
Fru Ndi voted in the 2011 presidential election in a distant second behind Biya. Fru Ndi, alongside other presidential candidates, called an emergency meeting to order that Biya annul the election just a few days after the results were announced on October 17, 2011.
Fru Ndi ran as a candidate in the Northwest Province, his primary support base, in the May 2013 Senate election. The indirect election marked the establishment of Parliament's upper house; previously, only the National Assembly had existed. Fru Ndi was unable to obtain a seat in the Senate due to Fru Ndi's inability. He alleged that the ruling party had bribes some SDF local councilors.
Fru Ndi has taken a critical role in the Cameroonian government's handling of the Anglophone Crisis, a war that has harmed him personally. In October 2018, Ambazonian rebels burned down his house in Bamenda. On April 19, 2019, his brother was kidnapped by gunmen who demanded a ransom. When visiting Kumbo, Northwest Region, to attend Joseph Banadzem's funeral, the SDF's parliamentary group leader, eight days later, he was kidnapped himself. He was released shortly after, with the SDF referring to the whole affair as a "misunderstanding" that was quickly resolved. The rebel had kidnapped Fru Ndi in order to get a chance to talk to him the next day. Gunmen demanded that the SDF leader remove all SDF legislators from the National Assembly and the senate in a video that appeared online. Fru Ndi replied that he did not because doing so would be counterproductive.
Fru Ndi said that although he was not a rebel, the government was "inciting him" in June 2019. Fru Ndi has made a point of travelling without a security team when he visits Anglophone nations, insisting that he is not afraid of his own people, including separatists.