The question of which opposition leader will face Paul Biya in next week presidential election has been blown wide open, after the main opposition leader will have to face his previous campaign director, Bernard Muna who is now considered as the " heavyweight opposition candidate" to enter the race.
Ni John Fru Ndi, leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party with seats in the parliament looked in danger of becoming the latest contender to see his campaign disturbed by his brother Bernard Muna, from the English speaking Cameroon. Fru Ndi is the only opposition leader who has been since 1992 the close rival of Paul Biya and since then has lost and regained his popularity on the ground.
Paul Biya still leading the party 26 years after his last controversial presidential election in 2007 and " expected usual victory". This is a far better moment for Paul Biya and the Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CDPM) party than seemed possible in 2008 when a stunned and somewhat hostile group of politic bureau watched the national chairman amend a provision of the constitution to allow him to run again in 2011 for presidency in Cameroon. Paul Biya has survived since 2008 and even won some of his critics.
Is Paul Biya making a real impact on the country at large? The polls, tough, showed that his " performance" wasn`t noticed by the opposition in general. Next week election is CPDM`s chance to get once more public attention where a large number of the population has no access to proper and clean water and enough food to eat, where there are no jobs, youth unemployment is rising, police and military police still harassing and abusing people, corruption and embezzlement still at the heart of the administration and the country, soaring prices and less is being done to stop or to fight against that situation.
Paul Biya and his contenders are all hunting for policies to appeal to the 85% of the population who no longer feel that the government care about them and also think about alleviating the suffering and the poverty in which they have been left with no option and alternative and is scared and worried about the future.
About jobs creation, Paul Biya is the only one to make his political campaign announcement whilst opposition leaders have nothing at the moment to offer except that all contenders today are promising to break the closed circles of Cameroon.
It is true that Cameroon had reached the time and a moment where the entire rule-book had to be changed. John Fru Ndi from the SDF, Adamu Ndan Njoya for the UDC, Jean Jacques Ekindi, Bello Bouba Maigari from the UNDP are the only leaders with representatives in the parliament today whilst others have never ever won a single seat in the House. 19 contenders for the presidency race have never won a popular vote and today just seek to convince voters that they can bring that change, million are expecting in Cameroon.
Opposition leaders and Paul Biya are all in the same time promising a " new bargain in Cameroon economic and finance system and on the sustainable development strategies" and to ensure responsibility from top to bottom. But it is time now to break up vested interests that hold the country back...All of them today want and aspire to write a new chapter for Cameroon...
Ni John Fru Ndi, leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), the main opposition party with seats in the parliament looked in danger of becoming the latest contender to see his campaign disturbed by his brother Bernard Muna, from the English speaking Cameroon. Fru Ndi is the only opposition leader who has been since 1992 the close rival of Paul Biya and since then has lost and regained his popularity on the ground.
Is Paul Biya making a real impact on the country at large? The polls, tough, showed that his " performance" wasn`t noticed by the opposition in general. Next week election is CPDM`s chance to get once more public attention where a large number of the population has no access to proper and clean water and enough food to eat, where there are no jobs, youth unemployment is rising, police and military police still harassing and abusing people, corruption and embezzlement still at the heart of the administration and the country, soaring prices and less is being done to stop or to fight against that situation.
Paul Biya and his contenders are all hunting for policies to appeal to the 85% of the population who no longer feel that the government care about them and also think about alleviating the suffering and the poverty in which they have been left with no option and alternative and is scared and worried about the future.
About jobs creation, Paul Biya is the only one to make his political campaign announcement whilst opposition leaders have nothing at the moment to offer except that all contenders today are promising to break the closed circles of Cameroon.
It is true that Cameroon had reached the time and a moment where the entire rule-book had to be changed. John Fru Ndi from the SDF, Adamu Ndan Njoya for the UDC, Jean Jacques Ekindi, Bello Bouba Maigari from the UNDP are the only leaders with representatives in the parliament today whilst others have never ever won a single seat in the House. 19 contenders for the presidency race have never won a popular vote and today just seek to convince voters that they can bring that change, million are expecting in Cameroon.
Opposition leaders and Paul Biya are all in the same time promising a " new bargain in Cameroon economic and finance system and on the sustainable development strategies" and to ensure responsibility from top to bottom. But it is time now to break up vested interests that hold the country back...All of them today want and aspire to write a new chapter for Cameroon...
