Over the past two years, I have the honor of serving as the president of the Southern
Cameroons Interim Government.
'I know as a fact that, as at the time the 1st petitioner was born on the 25th November, 1946 to a FulanI trader and farmer, Garba Abubakar, Jada village and other parts of Chamba land in the then Northern
Cameroon, were still part of the British
Cameroons and not Nigeria.
A plebiscite was held in British
Cameroons to determine whether the people preferred to stay in
Cameroon or align with Nigeria.
In 1961 Southern
Cameroons, the southern part of the British-administered territory voted in a referendum to join the Republic of
Cameroon, which had gained independence from France .
In recent years, Anglophone resentments have found growing expression in overt secessionist groups like the Ambazonia Movement, or organisations advocating a return to federalism like the Southern
Cameroons National Council.
The federal constitution of 1961 stated that the Federal Republic of
Cameroon shall be constituted from the territory of the Republic of
Cameroon, hereafter to be styled East
Cameroon, and the territory of the Southern
Cameroons, formerly under British trusteeship, hereafter to be styled West
Cameroon.
When the
Cameroons under the British and French Trusteeship united in October 1961 and became the Federal Republic of
Cameroon, Article 5 of the Federal Constitution supported the introduction of the Gendarmes which had become a federal affair.
When the
Cameroons arrived at the World Cup, it was with a confident roar, fresh from successfully defending their African Nations Cup title, saying they would become the first African team ever to reach the semi-finals.
For example, Simon Staats developed into one of best education administrators the church had in Nigeria and the
Cameroons between 1935 and independence.
For the sake of argument, let's assume that Atiku's ancestors had always lived in British Northern
Cameroon. Well, Buhari's lawyers betrayed historical illiteracyin thinking that British
Cameroons is and has always been synonymous with modern
Cameroon.
