Cameroon: Biya to continue as head of state beyond 2018

The unthinkable is already happening in Cameroon as President Biya, 83 is slowly but surely lobbying barons of his ruling crime syndicate into endorsing his candidacy for the 2018 presidential elections.   These last weeks have been marked by calls coming from CPDM Senators and MPs apealing to him to run again for president. Recently, 36 former civil administrators acting under the banner of an obscure organization known as the 1997-1999 batch of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM ) headed by Dieudonné Samba, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic, urged Paul Biya to run for a new presidential term. 

The President of the Senate, Marcel Niat Njifenji and a gang of Senators have also invited Paul Biya to run for another term. Senator Bell Luc Rene who was given a sack by Biya and humiliated by the regime putting an end to his very brilliant administrative career has also joined the the group of Biya acolytes clamouring for a new mandate for the Cameroonian dictator.   The first call to Mr Biya came from CPDM elites of the South region teleguided by Martin Belinga Eboutou, Director of the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency.

Cameroon Concord is aware that these calls are coming mainly from close associates of the President of the Republic and can not therefore be seen as an independent initiative.   Biya came to power on Nov. 6, 1982, succeeding the late Ahmadou Ahidjo when he was only 49 years old. This year, Paul Biya is in his 34th year as head of state. In 2018, he will be 85 years old.