Prez Biya's last journey of many dangers: Running again for president

President Paul Biya is actually taking the last kicks of a dying horse. Some few pro Biya comedians are still not reading the handwriting on the wall.

At 81, Mr Paul Biya has a more than two-decades record of reluctant democratization and grossly irregular elections. Biya and his ruling Francophone Beti-Ewondo regime have intentionally squandered much of the intertribal goodwill and Anglophone/Francophone unity that was created miraculously by the late President Ahidjo.

The Anglophone nationalism is looking stronger more than ever before. The Grand South and Grand Nord are no longer an item. The emergence of Boko Haram has made matters more intractable. He has imprisoned all those who actually served him in good faith. Age and poor health is telling on him.

Biya has slowly but surely guided the nation and entered a less-than-fragrant era of murky internecine politics inside his ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement. The French think he should go and go now.

So recently Biya and his current youthful acolytes have opted to apply the same grossly intolerant attitude demonstrated against any opposition and the Cameroonian people to the French but with less courage. We of Cameroon Concord think that this is President Paul Biya's last journey of many dangers.

Biya's Beti-Ewondo gang are working day and night to get the 81 years old leader to run for president in the upcoming general elections. Minister Rene Sadi Emmanuel some few hours ago in Yaounde announced to the Cameroonian people that there would be a congress of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement of President Biya.

For the first time in the history of our country, an announcement of such magnitude and importance did not carry the date of the congress. It is strange that the Secretary General of the Political Bureau and Minister of Territorial Administration appears not to know the date of the congress of his own party.

We of this publication also did notice that the Minister Rene Sadi communique juxtaposed two political terminologies. To be sure, our political desk has not been able to map out whether it is going to be an ordinary congress or an extra ordinary congress. This is a pointer to the fact that in the ruling CPDM, there is nobody except President Biya.

And the Rene Sadi announcement is to test the French waters and the Cameroonian people. Article 44 of the internal rules and regulations of the ruling CPDM party stipulates that only the Central Committee of the CPDM has the authority to summon militants to a congress.

Minister Rene Sadi, by not making public the date for the congress makes it even more clearer that the CPDM Central Committee is not aware of that communique. Article 18 of the same basic laws of the CPDM which Mr. Biya recently exploited to expel some members from the party states that the congress of the party shall hold after every 5 years.

The same article empowers the Political Bureau to extend the Chairman's mandate. None of these articles have any meaning within the ruling CPDM crime syndicate.

The Rene Sadi press release has made it abundantly clear that Biya is no longer in control. The French as we earlier reported are closing down on him. And men like Rene Sadi, Henri Eyebe Ayissi and the current Minister for Defence are too reckless and tactless to understand what Cavaye Dribril is saying from the Nordist perspective.

President Biya has been a grave disappointment to the Cameroon people. A country like Cameroon with an array of good people from all points of its multi-ethnic groupings bent on making it a beacon for the rest of Africa sorely needs better leadership. Biya and his ruling CPDM have only some few months to exist.