In an interview on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the national president of the Nouveau Mouvement Populaire (NMP) highlighted the remarkable inconsistency of a Sunday television debater.

Cameroonian political figure Banda Kani has expressed intense disapproval of the tribal provocateur Elimbi Lobe. Speaking in an interview released on his platform this Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the national president of the Nouveau Mouvement Populaire (NMP) conveyed his profound exasperation with Elimbi Lobe, particularly after Lobe referred to the nationalist Ernest Ouandié as a “bandit” during a recent television broadcast from Yaoundé, Cameroon.

“By labeling Ouandié a ‘bandit,’ Elimbi Lobe has brought dishonor upon himself,” declared the pan-Africanist Banda Kani. He went on to assert that Elimbi Lobe would never achieve the prominence of a truly influential political figure. “He has reduced himself to a scoundrel. He has become a political actor who will never attain national political stature in this country. He has confined himself to being a minor politician from a local district, whose entire strategy revolves around becoming a deputy,” Kani elaborated.

Would he have dared to make such statements while affiliated with the SDF?

Drawing on historical context, Banda Kani criticized Elimbi Lobe’s political adaptability, contrasting his current rhetoric with his earlier positions as an activist for the Social Democratic Front (SDF). “He is pursuing an electoral agenda. Look at his past. Consider his own declarations in 2011 when he was a member of the SDF. He championed national integration. He even lauded the contribution of the Bamilékés to national development, going as far as to state that his closest friend was a Bamiléké, whose name he intended to give to his son,” Kani explained.

“In 2015, he was actively condemning tribalists. When he was with the SDF, would he have been permitted to voice such opinions? The party would surely have intervened. You are witnessing the actions of a trivial politician who mistakenly believes that being elected as a deputy represents the zenith of his political journey,” Banda Kani concluded.