Despite having had such a great success in business, yet it is in politics that the whole Cameroon will learn to know the name “Madame  Foning”.

   "It had to be in 1970, I was in a popular district [Bepanda] and a delegation came to me:" You will be president of unit [ the lowest level in the party ], "they told me. This is how I started at the bottom; climbed up the ladder and here I am deputy and mayor of Douala 5 since 2002.” It is with these words that Mme Foning described her debut in politics. When this neophyte began her political career in the 70s, nobody augurs her such a success. But over the years, thanks to a certain power out of the ordinary, everyone realized that she was born to be in front.

   She was  Mayor of Douala V municipality over which she reigned for 13 years, against all odds. In fact, in political terms, it is in this municipality that she had settled her base, from which she exercised an influence on the city. An influence that was not always to the taste of everybody. Her political opponents and business say about her that she was fearful and did not hesitate to use and abuse of her interpersonal skills to achieve her ends. A political figure who requested anonymity said of her in testimony that she "was a formidable political machinery to grind."  For decades, she had managed to put under the extinguisher many of her opponents both within her own party and the opposition. The barons of her party in the Littoral in general and more specifically in the section of Wouri V vowed her an affectionate hate.  In particular men never digested the fact that she leaves the women's wing of the party WCPDM, to win the section as president, relegating them to the background. These men have repeatedly, collectively or individually, tried multiple unions to fight and overthrown her. But she, every time, successfully humiliated them and even offering a personal pleasure to finally break the political careers of many of them. She assumed the position of President of the CPDM Section  Wouri V since the explosion of the large section of Wouri. During the election of 2002, she ran as mayor of Douala V and deputy of  Wouri East and won them all . In 2007 she again ran for the two positions, but forced by the law against the accumulation, she gave up the post of deputy to Célestin Ketchanga, an unknown figure in the party, but hired for the occasion to further shock and humiliated her opponents. Despite the weapons against her  that have increasingly burnished over the years within and outside her party, she still managed in September 2013 to take another term as mayor, she unfortunately lead not an end, cut short by a death that, whatever they say, is welcomed by some as a sigh of relief.

Even those who hated her recognize that she was a ruthless political beast.