BITS AND PIECES ON THE OCTOBER 12, 2025 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN CAMEROON Friday, October 17, 2025): PART 2

12 ITEMS IN THIS PACKAGE:  1) ISSA TCHIROMA Is The Third Opposition Candidate In A Presidential Election In Cameroon, To Declare Himself ‘President –Elect”. How Were The Other Two Treated By The Regime?   2) Why TCHIROMA And His Men Have To Take The Issue Of PV That GREGOIRE OWONA Has Raised, Seriously.   3) National President Of PAL Disassociates Party From Declaration Made By ATEKI SETA CAXTON.   4) A Majority Of Opposition Presidential Candidates, Did Not, Have Polling Agents At Many Polling Stations.  5) Communiqués In Which BELLO BOUBA And CABRAL LIBII Congratulated ISSA TCHIROMA, Were Fake.   6) Barrister AKERE MUNA To File Petition Against ELECAM, At Constitutional Council. Etc

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Is The Third Opposition Candidate In In Presidential Election In Cameroon, To Declare Himself, ‘President – Elect’.

The National President of FSNC , Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who was the party’s candidate at the October 12, 2025 presidential election, in the night of Monday, October 13, breaking Tuesday, October 14, 2025,  unilaterally declared himself winner of  the presidential election, and thus the ‘President – Elect’ of Cameroon. The Cameroon Government as well as the ruling CPDM Party have, strongly condemned the claim being made by Issa Tchiroma, that he is winner of the October 12 presidential election, insisting that only the Constitutional Council has the authority to officially proclaimed the result of the crucial presidential election.

It should be noted that this is not the first time since the rebirth of multiparty politics in Cameroon in 1990 – 1991, that a frontline opposition candidate in the presidential election, has self -proclaimed himself as the winner of the presidential election , and thus the ‘President –elect’ of Cameroon.  The first was the National Chairman of the SDF, Ni John Fru, who was a candidate at the October 10, 1992 presidential election. The second was the National President of MRC, Prof Maurice Kamto, who was the party’s presidential candidate in the October 7, 2018 presidential election.

After the first multiparty presidential election that held on October 10, 1992, the coalition of several opposition parties  and civil society groups known as Union For Change,  whose presidential candidate was Ni John Fru Ndi, the then National Chairman of the SDF,  declared him winner of the election, based on the Pvs they had.  Elections in the country then, including the presidential election, were organized by the Ministry of Territorial Administration. Apparently, Fru Ndi won the presidential election, but the incumbent candidate, Paul Biya, and his CPDM Party, would not concede defeat. Fru Ndi insisted that he had won the election, and was thus the ‘President –elect’.  But the official result that was proclaimed by the Supreme Court, sitting in then for the Constitutional Council, declared Paul Biya the winner of the presidential election. The official result however showed a close score between Biya and Fru Ndi.  Biya grabbed 39 % and Fru Ndi 36 %.   There was an explosion of unbridled anger in Bamenda, as the population rose in protest against what was termed, stolen victory. This led to violent clashes between the security forces and the population. Several persons were injured, and properties destroyed. Suffice to say Bamenda ended up paying a heavy prize in the fight for the ‘stolen victory’, as the Biya Government slammed a three month State of Emergency on the town. Not only that, Ni John Fru Ndi, was placed under house arrest, and many people who were in his Ntarikon Compound in Bamenda when security forces arrived to imposed the house arrest, were all also blocked in the compound, and so joined Fru Ndi in the house arrest. The house –arrest only ended when the State of Emergency was lifted some three months later.

The Second ‘President Elect’ – Prof Maurice Kamto

The second time in Cameroon, that, an opposition candidate in the presidential election, declared himself as the winner of the election, was in 2018.  A day after the October 7, 2018 presidential election, Prof Maurice Kamto, MRC leader the party’s presidential candidate, ‘addressed the nation’, and declared himself winner of the election, allegedly based on PVs from polling stations.  But again the CPDM party and Government rejected the claim, and called Kamto all sorts of names. In the result of  the presidential election that was officially proclaimed by the Constitutional Council, victory was not only given to incumbent candidate, Paul Biya, but the margin of the score  between him and Kamto was so wide, as if to tell Kamto that he should not dream that he could have become President of Cameroon.  Biya grabbed 71.28 %, while Kamto who came second in the official result, received barely 14.23 %.  However Maurice Kamto and MRC continued to lay claim to the office of President of the Republic. MRC officials and militants were addressing Kamto as ‘President –elect’.

In late January 2019, MRC organized a peaceful protest march in connection to the ‘stolen –victory’. The MRC leader, Maurice Kamto, traveled to Douala and participated in the peaceful march, together with the Douala based veteran politician, Albert Dzonga , a former CPDM bigwigs and Founder of the party, ‘La Dynamique’. Worth noting, that Kamto had appointed Dzongang as his Special Adviser. The regime termed the protest march as illegal, and an insurrection.  Unknown to Kamto and Dzongang, the regime had finally taken a decision to have them arrested. A police squad stormed Dzongang’s mansion at ‘Mobile Guinness’ in Douala 5, and arrested Kamto and Dzongang.  MRC supporters and sympathizers that rushed to the scene to try to block the arrest, were dispersed by anti –riot policemen with teargas.  In Douala, other senior members of MRC that took part in the peaceful march like Celestin Djamen, were arrested. They, including Kamto, were whisked off to Yaounde and incarcerated at the Yaounde Central Prison commonly known as Kondengui Prison. The National President of MPCN, Paul Eric Kingue, who was Kamto’s Campaign Manager in the 2018 presidential election, was also arrested in Yaounde. It was alleged that Kingue was the one that encouraged Maurice Kamto, to illegally declare himself as winner of the October 7, 2018 presidential election. The police also launched a man-hunt for another senior member of MRC, the Douala based, Barrister Michelle Ndoki, who took part in the protest march in Douala. She was later caught at Idenau – Limbe, while trying to board a boat to Nigeria. She was whisked off to Yaounde, and also thrown into the Kondengui Prison. It should be noted that Kamto and his comrades spent nine long months at Kondengui Prison.  They were only released because President Biya had to travel to France, and fortunately for them, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, insisted that Prof Maurice Kamto and his comrades should be released. Prof Maurice Kamto, also took the complaint about his alleged story victory at the 2018 presidential election, to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.  The African Union Commission asked Kamto to present proofs to back his claim that he won the election, but then he did not have all the PVs.

Most Of Opposition Candidates Did Not Have Polling Agents In Many Polling Stations, Even In Towns Like Douala

One of the main weakness or setback of the opposition, at the October 12, 2025 presidential election, was the absence of the polling agents of several opposition candidates, in most polling stations across the country. Many local Tv channels in the country, repeatedly raised the issue on the voting day.  It should be noted that this is an old problem that has been affecting the opposition at presidential elections in the country. And that is why the proposal that was raised, for opposition candidates to put up a united front to among other things share polling agents, was a laudable one, but unfortunately it was not adopted for implementation.

Opposition parties and their presidential candidates always complain that it is very costly to have polling agents in all the polling stations across the country. More so, most opposition parties are very limited in their implantation in the country, with some existing only in one or two regions. It is the more complicated for a party to get serious or credible polling agents in a locality, when the party does not have a basic organ in the area, or if the party does exist in the area. ELECAM announced that there were a total of 31, 653 polling stations for the October 12, 2025 presidential election, with 108 of the polling stations in the diaspora. This meant that there were a total of 31,545 polling stations across Cameroon. This required a candidate or his or her party to recruit, train and deploy some 32,000 polling agents across the country, with few hundreds serving as reserves or assistants. Another difficult issue for opposition parties, is, that, these polling agents are supposed to be given some allowance. The money also helps to enable these polling agents to resist the temptation to accept bribe from the ruling CPDM, to sign fake PVs. It should be noted that some of the opposition candidates for the October 12 presidential election, each reportedly had less than 5000 polling agents in the whole country. SDF which last year paid much attention to the enlisting and training of polling agents, had, polling agents  in a large majority of polling stations across the country, but not in all. SDF announced the deployment of polling agents to some 30,000 polling stations across the country. From the look of things, SDF and PCRN deployed the highest number of polling agents among opposition parties, for the October 12, 2025 polling stations.

Osih Proposes That Text Be Modified, For The State To Give Allowance To Polling Agents Of Presidential Candidates

A CPDM communication officer in Douala, Pat Rifoe, remarked over Balafon Tv /Radio on election day, that though his party has been in the minority in Cameroon’s economic capital for some years now, the irony on that election day, was that the CPDM had polling agents in all the polling stations across the city, while a majority of the opposition candidates did not have polling agents in many polling stations. He wondered how the situation in the rural areas could be like, considering that the opposition, according to him, like hanging only in towns.  It is not also surprising that one of the things that the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, remarked at the press briefing he gave last Sunday when polling stations for the presidential election closed, was that the opposition candidates   did not have polling agents in many polling stations across the country.  The SDF leader and presidential candidate, Hon Joshua Osih, who was contacted by STV in a live programme last Sunday evening, asserted that his party tried as much as possible and deployed some 30,000 polling agents. It should be noted that ELECAM said there were a total of 31,653 polling stations, with 108 of them in the diaspora, for the October 12, 2025 presidential election.

As to the observation raised by many observers that some of the candidates did not even have up to 5000 polling agents, Osih explained that it requires much money to be able to get some 32,000  polling agents, train them, and take care of them. Hon Osih said there was need for the modification of the text, to see that the polling agents of all presidential candidates are given an allowance by the State.  He pointed out that the representatives of ELECAM at polling stations, at a presidential election, are persons that are just recruited and trained to be Presidents of the polling stations for that election, and are paid by the State.

Does Issa Tchiroma Have All The Required PVs To Prove His Case?

In the war of words that is ranging between the Tchiroma and CPDM camps, following the declaration by the FSNC leader who was his party’s candidate at the October 12, 2025 presidential election, that he won the election, the issue of whether the Tchiroma camp has the needed PVs of the election to prove his case, has come up.  On his Face book page, the Deputy Secretary General of the CPDM, Gregoire Owona, member of government, wrote:“Tchiroma n’a pas gagne, et il n’a pas les PV. C’est a dire tout les resultats”. That is, “Tchiroma has not won; he does not have the PV, that is, all the results”. It is easy for the CPDM to know the number of polling agents that Issa Tchiroma and his FSNC Party deployed, and where they were deployed,, because ELECAM has the information.

It is not clear whether Tchiroma and his men have all the PVs they need, to show or to prove that he won the election.  In the declaration that Issa Tchiroma made in the night of Monday, October 13 breaking Tuesday, October 14, 2025, it looked that he does not have all the needed PVs from the polling stations. “In the coming days, I will share with you, a detailed report of your votes by regions, as compiled from the results publicly posted, in accordance with Article 113 of the Electoral Code, in polling stations across the country and in the diaspora”, an excerpt  from his declaration reads. Here he is talking of results publicly posted at polling stations. The result that is on the board inside a polling station at the end of the vote count is an authentic or genuine result.  Just that it is not signed, and cannot be accepted in the case of a legal dispute. The PV is signed by the President of a polling station and the authorized representatives of the candidates who at the polling agents. The President of the polling station has one copy, and each authorized representative of a presidential candidate at the polling station, has a copy.  The PV is the document that can be used in case of a dispute.

It would be recalled that the issue of PV was what posed a big problem to Prof Maurice Kamto when he proclaimed himself the winner of the October 7, 2018 presidential election. He did not have all the needed PVs, since MRC did not have polling agents in quite a number of polling stations.  After declaring himself the ‘President –elect’, Kamto and his men contacted the other opposition candidates and parties  in the election , to give him the PVs that  they had, which he did not have, but got no respond. And this was because the MRC people had spent the time insulting the other opposition candidates and their parties.  So the question that instead came from the other opposition parties was what PVs Kamto used, to declare that he had won the election.  When Prof Kamto took his case to the African Union, they asked for proofs to show that he won the election, and the proofs were the PVs. There again, he got stocked.

So Issa Tchiroma and his camp will need the collaboration of the other opposition candidates and their parties, to be able to get enough PVs to proof his case to international organizations or in court.  Candiate Joshua Osih and SDF party, and Candidate Cabral Libii Ngue and his PCRN party, are the two opposition candidates or opposition parties that deployed the highest number of polling agents in the October 12, 2025 presidential election.  This means that Issa Tchiroma and his camp will need the collaboration of these two parties, to have enough PVs to prove his case. There is allegation floating that Cabral Libii and his PCRN have already been contacted, but have remained silent. It is very likely that the PCRN and SDF will react to Issa Tchiroma and his camp, the same way they reacted to Maurice Kamto and his camp in 2018, considering the invectives and false accusations that Facebook supporters of Tchiroma have been pouring on them.  One thing that many of the people on social media who claim they are fighting for change do not seem to understand, is that in a country like Cameroon, opposition unity is very important  for the presumed winner of a presidential election.  Even Tchiroma at this moment, needs Bello Bouba and his UNDP, in the fight that lies ahead, as he lays claim to victory in the October 12, 2025 presidential election.

The Problem For Issa Tchioma And His FSNC To Find Polling Agents, Was Not Money

As explained in some of the pieces put in today’s Bits and Pieces On The October 12, 2025 Presidential Election, is no candidate of the opposition do ever have polling agents to cover all the polling stations in the country. That was what also happened at the October 12, 2025 presidential election.  It should be noted that the Managing Director of ELECAM, Essousse Erik, disclosed in a communiqué before the October 12 election, that there were a total of over 31,000  polling stations in the country, meaning that  each presidential candidate or his party had to deploy over 31,000 polling agents.

The problem that Candidate Issa Tchiroma of FSNC and Candidate Bello Bouba  Maigari  of UNDP , both former members of government, definitely had as regard finding polling agents for the October 12, 2025 presidential election, was not the issue of money  as they certainly made big money as members of government for a very long period. It should be noted that the two parties were in alliance with the ruling CPDM party for many years, and during that long period, the focus of the parties was the Grand North for local elections. The two parties could not put up candidates for presidential elections, since they had to instead support the CPDM candidate at the election, in line with the terms of the alliance with the CPDM. The two parties thus were not implanted in most areas in the Southern part of the country, and so could not easily find credible polling agents in those areas, for the October 12, 2025 presidential election.  It should be noted  that serious political parties do not just pick polling agents from the streets, because  they need  persons with some little integrity that  can resist the temptation that often come  from  the CPDM camp to accept money and sign fake PVs.

Registered Voters That Could Not Find Their Names On Voters’ Lists At Polling Stations

After voting in the presidential election officially ended at 6pm on Sunday, October 12, 2025, the Managing Director of ELECAM, Dr Essousse Erik, made a declaration in which he claimed that all went well with the election across the country, and expressed the view that there was no major incident, and that the election took place under acceptable conditions. That was not true. An election cannot be said to have gone well, when quite a number of registered voters turned up at polling stations with their authentic voter’s cards, but could not vote, because their names were not found on the voters’ lists at the polling stations where they knew they were supposed to vote. There were in fact quite a number of cases of voters that had original or genuine voter’s cards, but when they got to their different stations, they could not find their names on the voters’ lists, and so could not vote. Many of these cases were people who voted at the 2018 presidential election, but when they return to those same stations at the 2025 presidential election, they could not find their names on the voter’s lists of their polling stations, or even at other polling stations in the polling centres. Some were persons who registered a few years ago, and had their voter’s cards, but did not know that ELECAM had probably made some changes as regard polling stations.  Apparently ELECAM had moved some of these persons to polling stations elsewhere, but did not inform them.  Perhaps some of the affected persons too also had to share the blame.  Registered voters were advised by the some civil society organizations and political parties before the election, to go to ELECAM offices in their localities, to ensure that their names were on the voters’ lists, to also try to identify their polling stations. It should be noted that ELECAM created new or additional polling stations for the 2025 presidential elections, especially in towns, following the significant increase in the number of registered voters. So ELECAM carried out modifications in quite a number of voters’ lists at polling stations. In some cases, some polling stations were decongested, with some voters moved to other polling stations with less numbers of voters.

Piles Of Uncollected Voter’s Cards / Abstention Rate Likely To Be High Again    

There was also the case of piles of uncollected voters’ cards that were lying in ELECAM offices across the country. It should be noted that many people jammed ELECAM offices at the last minute or in the last few days to collect their cards, whereas most of those cards had been lying there for long. Some political parties, presidential candidates and civil society organizations made several calls, on all persons that had registered and were not yet in position of the cards, to go and collect the cards. But many waited till the last minute, and some did not succeed to collect their cards, before the voting day. There were also cases of people who registered and up to the voting day, had not bothered to go and collect their cards.  So there were some people that did not just bother to go for the cards. Some of these were certainly people who even registered, just probably because campaign teams for voters’ registration, came to their quarters or doorsteps.

And so piles of cards were lying at ELECAM offices across the country, on voting day. Those piles of uncollected voter’s cards across the country, will be included in the number of those that ELECAM will count as registered voters that did not vote, and so the figure will increase the abstention rate of registered voters at the October 12, 2025 presidential election. Talking about voters’ abstention rate in the October 12, 2025 presidential election, there are indication that it will remain high like in past presidential elections, especially in Cameroon’s two biggest towns, Douala and Yaounde. The details of the vote counting in quite a number of polling stations in Douala for example, showed that the participation rate of voters was were less than 50 %. Not a good sign.

Purported Communiqués In Which Bello Bouba And Cabral Libii Congratulated Issa Tchiroma For His Alleged Election Victory, Were Fake

There is a lot of fake news circulating on the social media in relation to the Sunday, October 12, 2025 presidential election, and people have to very vigilant or else they stupefy themselves by believing in fake news. For example, on Monday, October 13, 2025, a communiqué on a PCRN letter-headed paper, and supposedly signed by the party’s leader and presidential candidate, Cabral Libii Ngue, appeared on the social media. But the communiqué was in reality, fake.  In the fake communiqué, Cabral Libii recognized the alleged victory of the FSNC leader and presidential candidate, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, in the October 12 presidential election, and also congratulated him for the purported victory. Later, Cabral Libii issued a communiqué, dismissing the other one as fake.  Another fake communiqué, this time around on the UNDP letter-headed paper, was put out on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. In the fake communiqué, Pierre Flambeau Ngayap, Spokesperson for Candidate Bello Bouba Maigari at the October 12, 2025 presidential election, allegedly on behalf of the UNDP leader and presidential candidate, recognized the alleged victory of Issa Tchiroma  Bakary at the October 12 presidential election, and congratulated him for the purported victory.  That same October 14, 2025, Pierre Flambeau Ngayap rapidly organized a press briefing in Yaounde, and rejected the said communiqué he was alleged to have signed, as fake.

Ballot Papers Of Akere Muna And Ateki Seta Caxton Were At Polling Stations, Despite Their Withdrawal From The Election.

The presidential candidate of PAL, Ateki Seta Caxton, and that of UNIVERS, Akere Tabeng Muna, on September 27 and September 28, 2025, which were the first and second days of official campaign, for the October 12, 2025 presidential election, respectively announced the withdrawal of their candidacies for the election, to support the candidacy of Bello Bouba Maigari, the UNDP leader and candidate at the presidential election. But despite the formal withdrawals, the elections organizing body in Cameroon, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), still went on to place their ballot papers at polling stations on the voting day (October 12). That definitely created confusion in the minds of some of their supporters, who were supposed to cast their votes for Bello Bouba. There is no doubt that some of  supporters of Akere Muna and Ateki Seta Caxton, ended up casting their votes for them, instead of Bello Bouba. It would be recalled that at the 2018 presidential election, Akere Muna who went in for the election on the ticket of FPD (a YANGO Party), announced the withdrawal of his candidacy three days to the voting day, which was October 7, and declared his support for Prof  Maurice Kamto, the MRC leader and presidential candidate. But ELECAM still put Muna’s ballot papers at polling stations.  The rather fake excuse that ELECAM gave then, was that Muna’s withdrawal came late, and that his ballot papers were then already at polling stations.  It should be noted that the official result of the 2018 presidential election, showed that Akere Muna received 12,262 votes (0.35 %), even though he withdrew his candidacy before the voting day.

Meanwhile reacting to fact that his ballot papers were at polling stations in the October 12, 2025 presidential election, Barrister Akere Muna fumed that he withdrew his candidacy since September 28, and informed ELECAM. He was thus surprise to see that his ballot papers were present at polling stations on the day of the election.  Akere Muna recalled, just as he did at the October 7, 2018 presidential election, that at the 1992 presidential election, Antar Gasagaye (now of blessed memory), announced his withdrawal from the presidential election on the eve of the election, to support Paul Biya’s candidacy. Muna said Antar’s ballot papers were withdrawn that same night by the Ministry of Territorial Administration, that was organizing elections then, and which continues to be very present in the organization of elections by ELECAM, today.

Barrister Akere Muna To File Petition At The Constitutional Council Against ELECAM, But – –  

Barrister Akere Tabeng Muna, in the course of  the day of the October 12, 2025 presidential election, declared that he will file a petition against ELECAM at the Constitutional Council, for having gone ahead to put his ballot papers at polling stations on the voting day across the country, after he had officially informed ELECAM of the withdrawal of his candidature from the election. But it should be noted that when Akere Muna and Ateki Seta withdrew their candidatures in favour of Bello Bouba, they however continued to benefit from some facilities as other presidential candidates. For example, they still had CRTV teams to cover their activities. The time allocated for their campaign messages (propaganda) over CRTV, was also still maintained.  Also, it happened that when Ateki Seta and Akere Muna announced on September 27 and 28 respectively, their withdrawals from the presidential election, the campaign funds that the State allocated for all the 12 presidential candidates, were already available at the Ministry of Territorial Administration. In fact the ministry had in an announcement, invited the candidates or their representatives to come for the money on Monday, September 29, 2025.  Ateki Seta and Akere Muna’s campaign funds were signed out on that Monday, September 29.  That of Akere Muna was signed out by the National President of the UNIVERS Party, Prof Nkou Mvondo Propser. It should be noted that Akere Muna went in for the October 12, 2025 presidential election, on the ticket of ‘Parti UNIVERS’, a YANGO party, and his campaign fund was signed out by the President of that party.  It is not clear whether Akere Muna finally received the money or not, because the French language daily, Mutations, reported a few days later that Nkou Mvondo was sitting on the money. Whatever the case, the fact is that Akere Muna’s campaign fund allocated by the State was signed out. ELECAM will definitely raise all these issues at the Constitutional Council, if Muna files the petition as he has threatened to do.polling agents of opposition parties are absent at polling stations, it gives the CPDM the easiest opportunity to carry out electoral fraud, in complicity with ELECAM. They inflate the number of votes at the polling stations, as well as the number of votes for the CPDM.    Also, when the polling agents of opposition candidates are not treated well, some become tempted to accept money from local CPDM elites that always try to corrupt them.

National President Of PAL, Disassociate Party From Ateki Seta Caxton’s Declaration

The National President of PAL, Chief Celestin Bedzigui, Deputy Mayor of Monatele, has disassociated the party from a declaration that was made on Monday, October 13, 2025, by Ateki Seta Caxton, who was given the party’s investiture to be a candidate at the October 12, 2025. The candidature of Ateki, was one of the 12 candidacies that the Constitutional Council validated for the October 12 presidential election.  But on September 27, 2025 which was the first day of official campaign for presidential election, Ateki Seta Caxton at a UNDP rally in Yaounde, announced that he had decided to withdraw his candidature from the presidential race, to support that of Bello Bouba Maigari, UNDP leader and presidential candidate. PAL supported the decision. There were rumours that Ateki Seta had struck a deal with Bello Bouba, that he would be given a ministerial post, if Bello were to win the October 12 presidential election. But surprisingly, barely a day after the presidential election, that is,  on Monday, October 13, 2025, Ateki Seta Caxton abandoned Bello Bouba, following unconfirmed allegations that were circulating on the social media, that Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the FSNC leader and presidential candidate, had won the October 12 presidential election. In an article on the social media, Ateki Seta congratulated Issa Tchiroma for his alleged victory in the election, and called for the respect of the verdict of the polls.

Meanwhile the National President of PAL, Celestin Bedzigui, has criticized the attitude of Ateki Seta Caxton for abandoning Bello Bouba so fast, saying it is in contradiction to the principle of loyalty and coherence in politics. Bedzigui said the declaration made by Ateki, was his personal initiative that engaged only him, and has noting, to do, with PAL.  In fact the way Ateki Seta Caxton abandoned Bello Bouba, has made many political observers to consider him as politically immature and an opportunist. Since Ateki Seta saw Bello Bouba as losing the election, meaning thus that he would not get the ministerial post,  he probably thought it smart to jump to Tchiroma camp, with the hope that Tchiroma will become President and think of him. It would be difficult in future for Ateki  Setato have the trust or confidence of any serious politician in this country, the way he has done to Bello Bouba.

Meanwhile, it should be noted that PAL to Ateki Seta in  the 2025 presidential election, was what is commonly  known in the county as a YANGO Party, meaning that it was a party he simply ‘hired’ like a taxi, to use for the presidential election. Ateki was not a militant of PAL before. In his plan to run for the 2025 presidential election, Ateki met the leadership of PAL, and an agreement was reached for the party to give him investiture to be able to be a candidate in the election.  That was when he definitely bought the party card of PAL, as a party card was one of the documents that had to be presented to Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), by any candidate who wanted to run for the presidential election, on the ticket of a political party.