Issa Tchiroma Exposes Regime “Playbook” and Calls for Nationwide March on Sunday

The post, already shared widely across social platforms, reads as both a declaration and a warning: “I know your manoeuvres; I anticipate them — and that is how you will fall.”

Tchiroma, who has claimed victory in the October 12, 2025 presidential election based on verified procès-verbaux from across the country, accuses the ruling establishment of deploying a long-perfected system to rig results and suppress popular will.

Inside the “Playbook of Power”

Tchiroma’s post systematically outlines what he calls the eight recurring methods used by the Biya government to cling to power:

1. Suppress the youth vote — by limiting voter registration among younger citizens, the demographic most likely to vote for change.

2. Delay and withhold voter cards, ensuring many can’t locate their polling stations in time.

3. Publish electoral lists late to disrupt voter logistics and encourage abstention.

4. Hide polling stations in private residences or dangerous zones, notably in the conflict-hit North-West and South-West.

5. Manipulate PVs — removing or substituting pages where signatures are missing to alter tallies.

6. Exploit the 15-day legal window before proclamation to falsify results through loyal agents.

7. Militarize the streets, using fear and arrests to stifle protests.

8. Neutralize opposition leaders — through bribery, threats, or imprisonment, before declaring victory and imposing a new “normality” for seven more years.

“I am exposing this playbook so that the people may understand — and so the regime knows that we have anticipated every move,”
— Issa Tchiroma Bakary

A Call to the Nation

Tchiroma’s tone, though defiant, remains rooted in restraint. He has called for a peaceful national march this Sunday, October 26, at 15:00, urging Cameroonians across all regions and the diaspora to mobilize calmly but firmly:

“Our strength lies in our number, our discipline, and our conviction that the future of Cameroon belongs to its children.”

The opposition leader also addressed members of the armed forces:

“To the honest men and women within our security ranks — join the people. Protect the Republic, not a single man.”

He warned the regime that continued use of the judiciary and armed forces as tools of repression would carry consequences “even before international jurisdictions.”

An Old Script in a New Crisis

Observers say Tchiroma’s exposé reflects a broader crisis of legitimacy in Yaoundé. His detailed account mirrors past documented cases — from the 2011 and 2018 elections, where results were similarly contested, to the manipulation of procès-verbaux and voter suppression in conflict zones.

The described pattern echoes long-standing practices:

• The 2018 exclusion of Maurice Kamto after alleging fraud;

• The fabricated coup charges against writer Enoh Meyomesse;

• And the systematic targeting of dissidents under the pretext of “national security.”

Political analyst Jean-Claude Mbella told Cameroon Concord:

“This isn’t just a message of protest — it’s a coded roadmap of the regime’s entire control mechanism. For once, a candidate has broken it down publicly, and that transparency is disarming.”

The Stakes Ahead

With the Constitutional Council due to proclaim results within 48 hours, Cameroon sits on the edge of history.
Mass demonstrations have already flared across the North — Garoua, Maroua, Ngaoundéré, Guider, Kaélé — despite heavy deployments of police and gendarmes.

Tchiroma’s call for Sunday’s peaceful march could mark either a turning point or a confrontation between a mobilized citizenry and a regime unwilling to concede.

“If we stand united and peaceful,” his statement concludes,
“the prisons will be too small to contain the people of Cameroon.”