Biya's circle and his party underestimated the ‘anyone-but-Biya' factor and Tchiroma's appeal to voters who might otherwise have supported the banned Maurice Kamto or the Social Democratic Front if it had been more credible (AC Vol 66 No 20 Oppositionists struggle to unite on challenger to Biya)...
He also picked up votes from supporters of opposition leader Maurice Kamto who was banned from standing by the electoral commission (AC Vol 66 No 16 Blocking oppositionist Kamto President Biya clears the field)...
Having barred oppositionist Maurice Kamto from the race the world's oldest serving leader appeared to assume victory was a foregone conclusion (AC Vol 66 No 16 Blocking oppositionist Kamto President Biya clears the field)...
With the main challenger at the last election in 2018 Maurice Kamto now barred (AC Vol 66 No 16 Blocking oppositionist Kamto President Biya clears the field) Bello Bouba Maïgari and Issa Tchiroma Bakary northern politicians who recently broke with the government (AC Vol 66 No 14 Splits appear in Biya regime's façade) have come to the fore...
With the cancellation of the candidacy of Maurice Kamto by the electoral commission Elecam president Paul Biya removed all doubt he would allow any challenge to his re-election in the general election due on 12 October...
The regime was already on guard after opposition leader Maurice Kamto mobilised thousands of Cameroonians to a mass rally at the Place de la Republique in Paris on 31 May...
The government is using the bureaucracy to block the opposition with the electoral body refusing to release the voter's roll despite legal challenges from opposition contender Maurice Kamto and le Mouvement pour la renaissance du Cameroun (MRC)...
The most serious will include: Maurice Kamto law professor of the Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun (MRC); Akere Muna formerly Bar Council president and former head of Transparency International (Cameroon); Cabral Libii of the Parti camerounais pour la réconciliation nationale (PCRN); Joshua Osih of the Social Democratic Front...
It paid scant attention to the complaints of opposition contender Maurice Kamto, whose senior party leaders remain in jail for questioning the results of the last election (AC Vol 64 No 25,No end to the legal opposition's long vigil & Vol 65 No 8, Biya's government blocks bids to unite opposition)...
Western powers have had little or no criticism of Biya over the past seven years as he crushed protests in the English-speaking minority regions jailed opposition figures including Maurice Kamto who came second in the disputed 2018 presidential election and made regular assaults on the press (AC Vol 65 No 8 Biya's government blocks bids to unite opposition)...