Former Minister and a group of MPs reveal plot to oust Biya

The backbench rumblings against Paul  Biya`s leadership grew in volume last week with the launch of a new right-wing Cameroon People Democratic Movement  faction.

 An internal plot to oust him has  been revealed after a highly regarded former minister confirmed he was asked to consider a " stalking horse" leadership challenge against the national chairman of the party.

Pr Joseph Owona ( pictured ) said he has been approached to consider a leadership to challenge against the President.

He claimed the idea was brought to him by a group of former colleagues and Members of the Parliament, mainly from the North and the Far-North region of Cameron (Muslim) before the return of the President from his private respite in Europe.

 At the moment there are conflicting information about the response they received from the former minister. This is a familiar conflict between Paul Biya and Muslim brotherhood in Cameroon and it has been for so long impossible for the President Biya to make an official decision and a choice. Biya has been in a state of indecision.

 Some said the former Minister told them to  " get lost " and to "mind their business" where they are, while another suggested that he might need time to consult his inner group of advisers before making up his mind.

 At this time the President is locked in a battle with backbenchers over a planned mass rebellion on the way the government is conducting the judicial procedure of the " Operation Epervier".

 People are still questioning the ethical code of the way judicial procedures in the punishment of the embezzlement by former public officials is being carried out.

Pr Joseph Owona who was one of those former presidential`s general secretary, and also former Education Minister under Paul Biya presidency might have said " it was a silly suggestion that i dismissed. I told them to get lost. I was not having anything to do with it". The former Education Minister refused to name the plotters and said he had not been told on whose behalf they were agitating.

 The plot emerged as former deputy Justice Minister Pr Maurice Kamto (pictured above) has offered his resignation from the government and now leading a newly created coalition of political parties. Pr Kamto`s insider said " the new group would work alongside the leadership, targeting such policy areas as tax, public services and political reform."

Discontent voices appear to have been borne out of frustration that working alongside the coalition government, Biya`s administration and the party values have become diluted somewhat and need to be reinvigorated ahead of the next General Election in 2013