The PCRN Affair: (Part 1): KONA Robert, Backed By ATANGA NJI And NGOH NGOH, Looses Another Case In The Fight With Cabral LIBII Over PCRN

 KONA that followed the directive of his backers to declare that PCRN will support BIYA”s candidacy at 2025 presidential election, now vows that if he has to fall, Cabral LIBII too has to fall  

This has sparked fears in the PCRN, that KONA with the support of his backers may take the matter to the Supreme Court, as a strategy to block Cabral LIBII from running as the party’s candidate at the 2025 presidential election.

The Far North Court of Appeal in Maroua, on June 19, 2025, in a ruling delivered by a jury headed by HAMADOU BOUBA, confirmed Judgment No. 04 / CIV/ TPI / KLE that was passed on September 5, 2024 by the Kaele Court of First Instance (Magistrate Court), rejecting a request that was filed by the former National President of the PCRN Party, KONA ROBERT. He had prayed the court to annul the resolutions that were adopted at the Extraordinary Congress of PCRN that he chaired in his native Guidiguis Sub – division, Mayo Kani Division in the Far North Region in 2019. Worth noting that the main decisions in the resolutions of the Congress was that Cabral LIBII NGUE was elected National President of PCRN.

Worthy of note, that Kona Robert, a retired civil servant, was the Pioneer National President of PCRN. Before Kona Robert and Cabral Libii Ngue met in 2019, PCRN had never been launched and had never held a congress, for the over a dozen years that it existed. In fact the first ever congress of PCRN was the congress that held at Guidiguis in 2019, when Cabral Libii came to the scene. Before 2019, PCRN was one of those hundreds of registered political parties in Cameroon that exist more on paper.

What Was The Resolutions Of PCRN Congress At Guidigui, All About

Meanwhile, the long of short of it was that Kona Robert fondly known as Pa Kona, on behalf of members of the group that created the PCRN, at the party’s congress in Guidiguis which he personally chaired in 2019, agreed in recorded declarations he made, to handover the party to Cabral Libii. But then in 2023 Pa Kona sparked a public conflict with Hon Cabral Libii, claiming that Libii had stolen his party, and went on to file a case at the Court of First Instance in Keale, which has jurisdiction over Guidiguis. He prayed the court to annul the resolutions of the PCRN Congress which he personally chaired as the then National President of the party. The Kaele Court rejected the demand of Kona Robert in the September 5, 2024 ruling, and he went on to file an appeal at the Far North Court of Appeal in Maroua, against the judgment. But then as aforementioned, in its ruling on the appeal on June 19, 2025, the Far North Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment that was passed on the matter on September 5, 2025 by the Court of First Instance, Kaele.

The Appeal Court also ordered Kona Robert to pay the expenses of Barrister Rene Roger Bebe, the lawyer of Cabral Libii and others. It should be noted that besides Cabral Libii, the former President of PCRN, Kona Robert, who had as lawyer, DIU GERARD, also included other founding members of PCRN, as well as some members of the party who were at the 2019 congress of the party in Guidiguis, and who strongly support Cabral Libii, in the case. They included DJONRA WANGSO, BOULGA JUSTIN, NDARMAWA EMMANUEL, MESSEY FRITZ F, and HAMADOU BERNARD.  It should as well be noted that Barrister Rene Roger Bebe is not only a lawyer of PCRN, but he as well as senior member of the party, and a PCRN Deputy Mayor of the Edea 11 Council.

Previous Case On The Conflict Over PCRN

It should be noted that the June 19, 2025 ruling by the Far North Court of Appeal, was the second case in less than a year that Kona Robert, was floored by Cabral Libii at the Far North Court of Appeal in less than one year, in the fight over PCRN.  It would be recalled that another case on the PCRN Affair was filed by Hon Cabral Libii Ngue’s team at the Garoua Court of First Instance early last year, when Pa Kona with the open support of a Garoua CPDM  heavy weight and business magnate, BAYERO FADIL,  illegally scheduled the congress of PCRN, to hold in that city.  Kona Robert claimed he convened the congress in his capacity as the Founding President of PCRN; a post that does not exist in the Constitution or text of the party. Suffice to say that the Garoua Court ruled that Pa Kona did not have the powers to convene the congress of PCRN, and thus declared that the congress which he convened for Garoua was illegal, and thus barred it from holding.

Despite the court ruling, Kona Robert, with the backing of his sponsors, decided to push ahead with the PCRN Congress a few months later, though he moved the venue of the congress to his village, Guidiguis, in the Far North Region. Efforts by the Cabral Libii team to get the local administration to stop the congress from holding, failed. The DO of Guidiguis, definitely with instruction from hierarchy, issued an authorization for the extraordinary congress of PCRN that Kona Robert convened as the Founding President of the party; a post that does not exist in the party. The controversial extraordinary congress, of PCRN, that was, convened by Pa Kona, held in Guidiguis in June 2024.

However the Cabral Libii team rapidly filed a case at the Kaele Court of Instance, praying he court to annul the resolutions of the congress which they termed illegal. The Cabral Libii team won the case. But Kona Robert filed an appeal against the ruling, at the Far North Court of Appeal. However in the judgment delivered by the Far North Court of Appeal on September 25, 2024, the court ruled that the extraordinary congress of PCRN that Kona Robert organized in Guidiguis in June was illegal, as he did not have the power to convene the congress of the party. It was confirmed in the court ruling that the post of Founding President does not exist, and has never existed, in the Constitution of the PCRN. The court thus also ordered Kona Robert to stop acting in the name of PCRN as Founding President, for the post does not exist in the text of the party.  Kona Robert was also ordered by the Far North Court of Appeal, to pay the expenses of the Edea based Barrister Rene Roger Bebe, who represented the legal and legitimate leadership of PCRN in the matter.

Big Threat By Kona Robert

Meanwhile following the June 19, 2025 ruling by Far North Court of Appeal, PCRN militants have been jubilating, saying that the obstacles that were viciously placed on the way to block their leader and presidential candidate from running in the 2025 presidential election, have all now been cleared.  But the celebration is apparently premature, because Kona Robert has indicated that the fight with Cabral Libii over PCRN is not over as yet. More so, Kona told the press after the June 19, 2025 ruling by the Far North Court of Appeal, which tacitly confirmed Cabral Libii Ngue as leader of PCRN, that if he has to fall, Cabral Libii too  will fall with him.

The threat by Pa Kona has raised fears in the PCRN that he and his backers or sponsors, might in their desperation to block Cabral Libii from running as PCRN candidate at the 2025 presidential election, decide to take the matter to the Supreme Court in Yaounde, knowing that the Supreme Court usually take a longtime to deliver judgment on a matter.  So the calculation might be that when Cabral Libii will as presidential candidate of PCRN deposit the file of his candidacy at ELECAM, Pa Kona will deposit a complaint against it, indicating that there is a dispute over the leadership or ownership of the party, and that the matter is at the Supreme Court. There are fears it can lead ELECAM as well as the Constitutional Council, to take a decision to reject the candidacy of Cabral Libii as PCRN candidate at the 2025 presidential election, especially as there are some big guns behind Pa Kona, and against Cabral Libii.

 Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh  / The Medal Of Shame

I should be noted that in the fight between Pa Kona Robert and Hon Cabral Libii Ngue, the face in the Biya regime that the public has observed as backing Pa Kona, is that of Paul Atanga Nji, the Minister of Territorial Administration. There is to a lesser extent, that of the CPDM bigwig and business magnate, Bayero Fadil. But there is another face, that has not been seen by rhe public, and that the public apparently does not even know he is involved in the fight against Cabral Libii, and that is the Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh.

Ngoh Ngoh’s problem with Hon Cabral Libii  Ngue,  goes back to  2023. President Biya instructed that Ngoh Ngoh and his Task Force receive medals, for their role in the Government’s fight against COVID 19 as well as  in the Olembe Sports Complex Project. Cabral Libii like so many other Cameroonians cried scandal. Hon Cabral Libii came out in a video with the failed Olembe Sports Complex Project in the background, in which he x-rayed the several scandals in the failed Olembe Sports Complex Project, concluding that the medals given to Ngoh Ngoh and members of his team, was what he aptly termed, THE MEDAL OF SHAME.

That video went viral and Ngoh Ngoh was red with anger against Cabral Libii. Like a number of other members of the regime, Ngoh Ngoh sees Cabral Libii as a small boy who has suddenly developed wings, because of what he has ‘suddenly’ become in politics, and that he needs to be cut to size.

Atanga Nji  And Ngoh Ngoh Have Different Objectives

Worthy of note that Atanga Nji and Ngoh Ngoh who have a close relationship, are together in the plan to use Pa Kona Robert to block Cabral Libii from running in 2025 presidential election, though for different objectives. Atanga Nji’s objective is to use Pa Kona and the name of PCRN to give the false impression to the international community, just like he did at the 2018 Presidential election with Edith Kah Walla’s CPP, that there are opposition parties that support President Biya’s candidacy.  As for Ngoh Ngoh, he is rather out to teach Cabral Libii a lesson, and make him know that he is still a ‘small boy’.

The one luck that Cabral Libii and his team have had so far, in this conflict with Pa Kona over PCRN, is that the Minister of State in charge of Justice, Laurent Esso, and the Secretary General at the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, are not in good terms. That is an open secret. So it has not been possible so far, for anybody to succeed to influence the decision of the courts in this matter.

But as aforementioned, if Pa Kona Robert and his backers decide to file an appeal at the Supreme Court against the June 19, 2025 ruling by  the Far North Court of Appeal in Maroua, Cabral Libii might be in trouble as regard running for  the 2025 presidential election as the candidate of the PCRN. This is because in such a situation, the lawyer of Pa Kona will argue both to ELECAM and the Constitutional Council, that there is a conflict over the leadership of PCRN, and that the matter is in court, precisely at the Supreme Court.