John Fru Ndi

The two strongest John Fru Ndi's SDF and Bouba Bello Maigari's UNDP differ on the key constitutional issue...

John Fru Ndi leads the English-speaking Social Democratic Front which almost certainly won the 1992 elections as an alliance between Anglophones and the business-minded Bamiléké of western Cameroon...

The Social Democratic Front leader John Fru Ndi who claims (with some justification) that Biya's victories at the 1992 and 1997 presidential elections were fraudulent thought the summit a missed opportunity for reconciliation...

Since the 1997 elections Biya has managed to woo enough northern support to beat John Fru Ndi and his Social Democratic Front based in the Anglophone south with the help of electoral fraud and shrewd political deals...

Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi was a welcome and flamboyant guest at Obasanjo's inauguration last May...

Biya had sent his Prime Minister although Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi and his Social Democratic Front delegation also proved popular with the local crowd...

However John Fru Ndi's Social Democratic Front (SDF) Bello Bouba Maïgari's Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (UNDP) and Adamou Ndam Njoya's Union Démocratique du Cameroun refused to take part this time because the rules were unfair; they wanted an independent electoral commission and a two-round electoral system...

The parties are John Fru Ndi's Social Democratic Front Bello Bouba's Union Nationale pour la Démocratie et le Progrès and Ndam Njoya's Union Démocratique du Cameroun...

John Fru Ndi of the mainly Anglophone Social Democratic Front seems to makes that impossible...

Perhaps sensing this SDF leader John Fru Ndi made a statesmanlike call on 17 June for the SDF to go to the National Assembly to work peacefully for electoral and constitutional reform (his party was in danger of tearing itself apart over a proposed parliamentrary boycott)...