Biya to Stepdown, Hand Power to His Aide
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Suspects Kamto
-The opposition strongman has cried out to Cameroonians to
be on the Watch
-Says the undemocratic power alternation scheme enjoys the
determined support of some foreign powers
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde
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| Prof. Maurice Kamto |
The leader of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM
political party has raised an alarm of what he claims of an ongoing scheme at
the Unity Palace whereby the sitting president and head of state, Paul Biya,
wants to undemocratically transfer power to one of his CPDM regime lackeys by
means of mutual agreement (gre-a-gre).
Prof.
Maurice Kamto, self-proclaimed president-elect of the 7 October 2018
Presidential election, raised the alarm Monday 1 June 2020 through his party’s
official Facebook page, in a message to his party supporters and all
Cameroonians striving for democratic change.
Kamto
said things are becoming clearer, more than ever before, that those he
describes as “over-the-counter architects” are at work, trying to accelerate
the course of the country’s history for their own profit, in defiance of all
the democratic rules of power alternation, against the sufferings of the
Cameroonian people.
“Let it
be clear to all. We will never accept any form of power succession by mutual
agreement at the helm of the State. We will stand against any manipulation,
even constitutional, tending to the accession to the supreme office by means
other than elective means,” the CRM leader said.
Speaking
in with discernible vehemence, Kamto says his party will mobilize against the
organization of any general elections in Cameroon without prior fulfillment of
the following two major prerequisites: finding a solution to the armed conflict
in the Anglophone regions and consensual reform of the electoral law.
Urging
Cameroonians to be alert and keep keen watch over events in the country, Kamto
hinted that the ongoing plot at the Etoudi Palace was hatched with the support
of some foreign powers that do not want a democratic transition in Cameroon. He
says these powers are already at work, and are ready to go to any length and
cross all boundaries in their determined endorsement and support of project.
“These
are the moments when our people must find in the depths of itself the spring
and the wake-up call which is essential to choosing the course of its destiny.
Through our collective vigilance and our sense of patriotic duty, we must spare
our country a new disaster of almost half a century that has been in
preparation through the usurpation of power,” Kamto exhorted.
Recalling
the circumstances that unfolded during the 7 October 2018 presidential
election, Kamto noted that the Constitutional Council dealt a serious blow to
Cameroonian democracy by declaring as winner a candidate who did not claim the
majority of the votes cast in the ballot boxes.
He
condemned the torture and illegal detention of CRM militants who peacefully
protested against electoral hold-up, the war in the NW/SW regions and against
the misappropriation of resources dedicated to the organisation of the Africa
Cup of Nations 2019 which was finally withdrawn from Cameroon.
To
Kamto, the Biya regime has remained deaf, dumb and disdainful in the face of
the suffering of the martyred populations of NW and SW, and the legitimate
expectations of the Cameroonian people regarding the consensual reform of the
electoral system, adding that the regime is aware that such a reform, if
properly carried out, would certainly spell the end of the fraudulent elections
that have sadly punctuated the history of Cameroon.
Kamto
called on Cameroonians, and his followers especially, to massively enroll on
the electoral registers so that when the time comes they will massively vote
for change at the helm of the state.
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