At campaign launch in B’da: Osih begs SDF supporters to vote massively to liberate country from Biya regime.

Osih who is also National Chieftain of the SDF issued the warning in Bamenda on Saturday. This was at the start of his two-week nationwide campaign in the run up to the October 12 poll.

Hon Osih who spoke largely extempore at the Bamenda rally in front of a cheering crowd of SDF supporters, well-wishers and sympathisers, insisted that allowing the current Biya regime to secure another term of office would pose a serious threat to the country’s future.

The lawmaker and businessman told the rally that the choice of Bamenda for the launch of his campaigns wasn’t random. 

Describing Bamenda as the birthplace of democracy in Cameroon, the politician stated that the placenta of the SDF is also buried in same city.

“I am launching the campaign in Bamenda because our DNA comes from Bamenda. I think, this country owes the North West Region and the people of Bamenda a lot because most of the liberties that we enjoy today were born here,” Osih told the Bamenda rally Saturday.

He continued that: “Today, 35 years later, you can bear with me that a lot has happened but no political force has had the capacity to address the root causes of the problems we face in Cameroon…we believe that we shouldn’t give this government the further chance. They have had too many. They have been in power for 65 years, Mr Biya himself for 43 years”.

Speaking further at the rally attended by supporters of the SDF who came from length and breadth of the North West Region, Osih who is making a second attempt to occupy the highest office of the land, emotionally noted that: "Bamenda has paid the highest price to make Cameroon a better place".

He immediately disclosed: "That is why I have decided to start my campaigns here today because here is the cradle of the movement to Liberate this country".

Vote to take Biya out office 

In his campaign address at the Bamenda Commercial Avenue Grandstand Saturday, Hon Osih called on supporters of the SDF to be courageous before reminding them that Cameroon will not be liberated if Bamenda does not show the way.

"We have the capacity to bring solutions and stop the problems we have in this country. All I need to enter Etoudi is your support," he added.

He tasked supporters to take the party's message to all corners of the region, encouraging them to 'bravely' come out and vote massively for the party to put a stop to the sufferings.

The SDF, he told the rally, has put in place mechanisms to defend their votes to avoid a repeat of the 2018 and 2020 scenarios which he claimed the SDF was deprived of her strongholds.

Launching his campaign amidst the ongoing armed conflict in the troubled North West and South West regions, Osih promised to solve the violence in the first one hundred days in office if elected.

He emphasised the need for a return to federalism as a panacea to the conflict.

"You must have the courage to be present to be able to make peace. I am here today to launch my campaigns. Once elected, I will not only come back to Bamenda, I will be in Fundong, Wum, Nkambe, Mbengwi, Ndop and Kumbo" he pledged.

North West behind SDF

Speaking earlier at the campaign launch, the Mayor of Bamenda III council, Fonguh Cletus Tanwie, who doubles as North West Regional Chairman of the SDF had boasted that: "no other political party can address the Anglophone problem more than the SDF".

Assuring the loyalty of the region to the party, he announced a door-to-door campaign strategy saying that the secret of getting rid of the 92-year-old incumbent CPDM candidate, Paul Biya is to vote for Osih Joshua 

For his part, Benjamin Fru Ndi, who is Campaign Manager for the SDF, in a tone similar to that of his late father and pioneer leader of the SDF, Ni John Fru Ndi observed that the challenges and pains faced in the region are glaring.

"We are sending a strong message to the rest of Cameroon that change is possible because we have a plan and we paid attention to the solutions," said Benjamin Fru Ndi who also called on Cameroonians to vote for change by casting their ballots for the SDF Candidate.

It should be noted that the SDF is campaigning on the programme of reforming state institutions, job creation, free Identity cards, free land titles, family grants, free education, free and accessible healthcare amongst others.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3579 of Monday September 29, 2025