Category: Politics

How Augustin Frederick Kodock, The Regime’s Man, Hijacked UPC, Registered The Party At OAPI As A Cooperative Society, And Used The Registration To Obstruct Other UPC Factions. The original ‘Union des Populations du Cameroun’, UPC, or better still the Union of the Populations of Cameroon, which prides itself as the oldest political party in the […]

Samuel Eboua held several top posts in the Ahidjo regime, including the strategic post of Secretary General at the Presidency. He was known to have been very close to President Ahmadou Ahidjo, to the point that quite a number of people thought that if Ahidjo had to leave power, he would be the one designated […]

In 1991 – 92, Douala Was the ‘headquarter’ of hardliners against the Biya regime. President Paul Biya, who in 1991 resisted the strong pressure by the Coalition of Opposition Parties and Civil Society Organizations to organize a Sovereign National Conference, instead convened the Tripartite Talks in the nation’s capital, Yaounde, on his own terms,  and […]

In 1991, the newly created opposition political parties and several civil society groups as well as civil society activities, created the very powerful Coalition of Opposition Parties and Civil Society Oragnisations. Samuel Eboua, the then National President of UNDP Party was the President of the Coalition, while Ni John Fru Ndi, the National President of […]

The official rebirth of multiparty politics in Cameroon was in 1991. In this article, we will be looking at political parties that were created, or that were in existence, before the first multiparty presidential election in October 1992. The Founding Fathers that worked on the project to create a political party which they baptized as […]

Celestin Djamen insist that ATP is the only opposition alliance for the 2025 presidential election Justin Noah, the Deputy Secretary General of MRC Party of Prof Maurice Kamto, has embarrassingly dismissed the necessity, and thus the importance of the several calls for opposition parties in Cameroon to come together and form a coalition or an […]

Simply put, having a unique opposition candidate at the presidential election in a country, is a situation whereby the opposition parties in that country come together and unanimously agree to designate a single candidate for the presidential election. All the parties stand behind that candidate. In most cases, influential civil society organizations in the country […]

Bedzigui bashes those he says jump into politics today, and the first thing they want to do is be a candidate in the presidential election. The National President of PAL, Celestin Bedzigui, who is also the Deputy Mayor of the CPDM dominated Monatele Municipal Council in Lekie Division of the Centre Region, has declared his […]

 Unlike in Ivory Coast where opposition parties last week came together to try to form a bloc ahead of the next presidential election, in Cameroon where the President, Paul Biya, has been in power for over 40 years, opposition parties are still failing to close their ranks and form a bloc or a united front, […]