The October 2025 presidential election in Cameroon is fast approaching. The challenge at hand in this nation is highly significant, particularly given the intention to contest the current President of the Republic. The President has consistently achieved victory since assuming office on November 6, 1982, and with the re-establishment of the multiparty system in 1990.
During an event where confidential information must be disseminated exclusively by him, Alain Foka, a French national who identifies as being of Bamileke (Cameroonian) origins, tries like all those speaking for Françafrique to take a position. Utilizing his archives, he provides statements that warrant careful analysis, particularly as the next presidential election in Cameroon approaches.
1– On the Bakassi case.
Mr. Alain Foka highlights the significant efforts made by Maurice Kamto in securing the release of Bakassi to Cameroon through the International Court of Justice’s decision. Speaking of Maurice Kamto, Alain Foka asserts that, “everyone remembers what he did to get Bakassi back, which the Nigerians were in the process of taking back”.
Dear Alain Foka, this sentence is full of contradictions. This can be examined by asking a few questions: What actions did Maurice Kamto take exactly? The war against Nigeria? And a soldier who goes to war has superiors from whom he takes his orders right? As an archivist, you only had to take a tour of the ICJ library to discover that from the beginning of this file (when an application instituting proceedings signed by Mrs. Isabelle Bassong, Ambassador of Cameroon to the Netherlands and to the ICJ at the time of the facts was deposited), the name of Maurice Kamto appears as one of the two co-agents with Professor Yana Peter Ntamark.
Wanting to absolutize the role of Professor Maurice Kamto in this case is simply trying to masquerade the truth. It is worth noting that his team was subsequently completed by additional members.
Who were the Nigerians taking Bakassi from? And why didn’t they take it back? You can only take back something that belongs to you first. It was rather Cameroon that took back Bakassi (to recover its full sovereignty). It is an embarrassment for a Frenchman who for 30 years has preached on a French radio station, to want to sell to us the illusion of a Maurice Kamto. That cause I must say is lost.
2- On the presidential election in Cameroon
“I don’t have the right to vote in this country,” says Alain Foka. Dear sir, voting is a right and a civic duty, you are not Cameroonian, it is logical that you do not have the right to vote in Cameroon. In what way, does Cameroon interests you so much to the point of casting opprobrium on it. You are a servant of your country, France, serve it!
If you aspire to vote for “that country” (I disregard the contemptuous and condescending meaning of your expression), you will have to meet the conditions of citizenship. It’s the law.
Under this law, the conditions for validating a candidacy in the presidential election are attested to by Article 121 of the Electoral Code. Candidates who meet legal requirements are eligible.
You can’t vote for “that country” and so why are you particularly interested in “that candidate”? You have made statements that contradict each other. Unless you think that this candidate, the deus ex machina of the Bakassi file, is the one who will come to put France, your country, back in the saddle in Cameroon.
Why is it that during the 2018 presidential election, the candidacy of this candidate was not rejected? It obeyed the conditions of the law set by the electoral code. There are conditions that are the responsibility of the individual and those that are the responsibility of the investiture. It is not enough to proclaim oneself a candidate to be one, much less to organize a rally at the Place de la République in Paris with people who are not registered on the electoral lists to be a candidate.
In your condescension, you think that the law must be torpedoed. And in so doing, what a great opportunity you will be given to make fun as usual of Africans who do not respect any text. Dear Mr. Alain Foka, Cameroon does not need to be told what to do.
You are French, sir, and so are your children. Which law professors did you listen to? According to you, to be a teacher and to teach, one would have to support the legal imposture of your candidate.
Dear Mr. Alain Foka, the new outpost of Françafrique, you have just taken your membership of the Talibania-Kamtoland. As if there were any doubt; the opposite would have been surprising!
Alphonse Bernard AMOUGOU MBARGA
