Cameroonians and the world are watching as the 12 confirmed opposition candidates go around in an endless uphill Sisyphus cycle of eternally looking for a consensus candidate to face President Paul Biya in the October 2025 presidential election. Every day, they role the stone of selecting a candidate up the hill and the next day they roll it down again.
One day it is Bello Boua, the next day it is Issa Chiroma and over the same weekend it will be Akere Muna or Libih or another one of the group of 12.
Even rejected candidates like Prof Kamto and his MRC, no MANIDEM, oh no, its now MRC AGAIN party with no elected officials anywhere in Cameroon have joined those rolling the stone up the mountain. Rejected parties are even giving conditions daily for them to ‘’designate” their own consensus candidate. Cameroonians are wondering how parties with no candidates are claiming that they will designate candidates.
We have even seen some of the 12 candidates visit chief’s palaces and claim they have been endorsed. Some have even claimed that God chose them already.
So far, none of them have made public a political proposal or vision for the country. None has answered the question “what will you do if you are elected president”. No one is even addressing any of the challenges facing the country. As they change scenario and conditions for the selection of a candidate, their only agenda and vision for Cameroon is that President Paul Biya is old and has been in power for too long. When asked to define their social, economic, political, cultural, diplomatic and security vision for Cameroon, their mutism is collective. When opposition candidates in their late 70s and mid 80s are asked about their own ages, they claim they are “less” old and more “young” as if old age can be classified.
Meanwhile, President Paul Biya in his legendary wisdom and patience has clearly placed the unity and economic prosperity of a strong and stable Cameroon at the center of his campaign. All his tweets and political agenda are focused on producing an emerging country by 2035. To attain this, Cameroon now looks like a vast construction site. Countless projects are going on and the results are concrete.
Even the Cameroonians who were clamoring for change have now seen that the opposition will only continue to take dem up and down a hill with no end in sight.
No wonder all opposition attempts to start an uprising in Cameroon and all calls for an insurrection have failed. Today, the anger of the people is towards the opposition which they say have deceived them. Many localities are now saying they will not welcome opposition campaigns. Others have said they will vote President Paul Biya 100%.
Today, the world is disappointed in the opposition for failing to propose a concrete political alternative even as they lack a vision for the country. And this is how President Paul Biya has been describing them.
As Cameroonians prepare to plebiscite President Paul Biya on October 12th 2025, the opposition will go into hibernation and only resurface again in 2025 during the next presidential election.
