KAMTO FORESEES ANTICIPATED 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND WARNS...

The Cameroon Renaissance Movement, (CMR) of Professor of International Law, Maurice Kamto is foreseeing the anticipation of 2018 Presidential elections in Cameroon.

The MRC in a statement from its National Secretary said the elections could take place in 2016 given what the party terms the activities of some “political vampires” of the ruling CPDM regime.

PROF KAMTO : I SEE THEIR MANOEUVRES

They have “ started calling Paul Biya to stand as presidential flag bearer of the CPDM” and “it is rumoured that that parliament in its ordinary session in March 2016 shall amend the Constitution bringing presidential mandate to 5 years,” partly read the statement from Emmanuel Ndong, dated February 1 2016.

MRC also said the CPDM regime might want to avoid quadruple elections and would want the elections in Cameroon to take place before that of France, billed for 2017.

“The government wants to avoid a clash of presidential, senatorial, parliamentary, municipal, regional elections, to take place same year. Given that Frances’ presidential election is in 2017, the present regime in Cameroon wants to do theirs before France,” insinuated that statement.

MRC has asked its militants for suggestions on how to strategize and ensure that Prof/President Maurice KAMTO is elected Head of State in the Third Republic.

ANTICIPATING ELECTIONS, UNCONSTITUTIONAL

In a statement issued early November 2015, the People’s Action Party’s last Presidential Candidate had blasted any anticipated elections in Cameroon as totally unconstitutional.

Hon Ayah Paul had argued that the issue of the possibility of early presidential election in Cameroun since the 1996 constitutional revision has been laid to rest by the repeated explanation of several legal experts in constitutional law.

HON PAUL AYAH : ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

The super scale magistrate, now Advocate General at the Supreme Court of Cameroon explained that since 1996, there are only three instances where there can be early (“anticipated”) presidential election in Cameroon.

The first he argued is where the president dies in office. The second is where the president resigns. And the third is where the president is permanently incapacitated as ascertained by the constitutional council.  “Under no other circumstance can early presidential election hold in Cameroon within the law,” he insisted.

Other political pundits saw with suspicion the haste with which the ruling CPM party had reorganized its basic organs at home and abroad and questioned the raison d’etre of the several obnoxious calls for President Biya to seek reelection, two years to the polls, if the CPDM was not going to violate the constitution with impunity as have been the case in the past, and anticipate elections.

OPPOSITION TO BIYA’S CANDIDACY MOUNTS

Meanwhile several political parties like the Movement for Africa's New Independence, MANIDEM, and political actors have mounted the  rostrum to condemn calls for My Mr Biya’s umpteenth presidential bid or anticipated elections. Compatriots are arguing that the country has priorities.

DR FOMUNYOH: THEY BETTER STOP THE DISTRACTION

"Cameroon is at war against Boko Haram which has already put the country in a very uncomfortable situation .

We need to focus on that and support the soldiers who are at battle front. Anticipating elections would be pure distraction and very unconstitutional. It is not at all healthy  for Cameroon's Democracy,” Dr Christopher Fomunyoh of the international elections observatory, the National Democratic Institute, NDI, said. 

Former Social Democratic Front, SDF's Secretary General, Professor Asonganyi had described the calls for the more than 82 year old president to seek reelection as ‘a call of shame.’

Some CPDM top shots contacted declined to comment on the calls for President Biya's re-election or talks about anticipated elections. " Why mention my name. Just know that we simply follow the instructions of  the party hierarchy ," one of them said.