LURE OR FICTIONAL REALITY?
The 2025 presidential election promises to be electric. The clans flanked around power now face each other and no longer just look at each other like china dogs. There will certainly be a match and no doubt perhaps in the clan of power.
We were already used to the Frankists. For several weeks now, Ngoh Ngohists (meaning promoters of the candidacy of Ngoh Ngoh, current Secretary General to the Presidency of the Republic), have been putting themselves in battle order, through several meetings. The first was held on Saturday February 24 in Douala. However, the rules of the CPDM, the ruling party, are clear. No one can access the supreme office if they do not have the approval of the Party. To give such approval, the CPDM must meet in an ordinary congress to rule on the question.
However, for the moment, this party has not yet said anything about its intentions for 2025, and to our knowledge no congress is planned in the shortest possible time. At the same time, certain leaders of those in power, in the person of Mr. Eyebe Ayissi, Minister of Estates, Cadastre, and Land Affairs, have continued to invite Paul Biya to run in the election presidential election of 2025. Virtual reality of a fictional candidacy or actual possibility of a candidacy of Paul Biya of whom almost everyone agrees that he no longer has the strength and vigor necessary to take care of the affairs of the Nation? Only the future will tell us. We note, however, that the state media, in this case CRTV, continue to bombard Cameroonians all day long with motions of support and deference to Paul Biya, "beggar of peace and promoter of living together.” In fact, he is presented as an incredible opportunity for the country, the man for the job, the only bulwark capable of standing up to the opposition.
This means that with the intrusion of the Ngoh Ngoh equation, the future now presents itself with variable geometry. At this stage of the competition, we see roughly three fronts: the Paul Biya front, the Frank Biya front, and even more recently, the Ngoh Ngoh front. It is almost certain that the said fronts will be neutralized for the benefit of Paul Biya if he comes to represent himself as requested by a member of his party in 2025. And this is not a view of the mind, as the President, in a true political animal, has demonstrated for ages his fierce appetite for power. The candidacies that we are currently observing on the political scene could also be a political ruse instigated by Paul Biya himself, for when the time comes, to present himself as the only one capable of bringing together consensus on his person. necessary to reconcile his party with himself as well as all the stakeholders, namely Frankists and Ngoh Ngohists.
Such a hypothesis is all the more plausible since Ngoh Ngoh has spent enough time in the inner circle to understand that he cannot take it upon himself to cast off to promote himself politically by himself, without running the risk of see cut the wings as Titus Edzoua did not long ago. This means that Ngoh Ngoh, for the moment, appears to be the Trojan horse of Paul Biya’s candidacy. In this case, it would only be the tree that hides the forest. Such a hypothesis is all the more plausible since it is the wife of Ngoh Ngoh who is at the helm in promoting a candidacy of the Secretary General for the Presidency of the Republic. Such a situation would have been unthinkable if Ngoh Ngoh acted on his own in the wake of an open, sincere and democratic candidacy.
In this hypothesis, the Ngoh Ngohistes movement would then appear as a decoy, or even a perfect guarantee in order to perpetuate the current tenant of Etoudi in his seat as King.
TIENTCHEU KAMENI Maurice
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