On 12 June five days after Biya left for Geneva someone tried to get the state broadcaster Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) to read out two presidential decrees appointing Franck Biya as vice-president as well as members of a new government after circulating them on social media...
The RDPC source said that either Biya's first son Emmanuel Franck Biya or Secretary-General Ngoh Ngoh would take the post...
RDPC sources tell Africa Confidential that his eldest son Franck Emmanuel Biya may step up though Secretary-General at the Presidency Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh would be a more competent replacement...
The plan to put his son Franck Biya on the ballot is still seen as an option but Biya seems to prefer staying on ahead of the elections...
Ngoh Ngoh's most dangerous rival is Franck Biya the President's son who is one of two or three champions of the Bulu heritage bloc's cause...
Vol 64 No 23 |
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Biya brought to St Petersburg his wife Chantal Biya his would-be successor his son Franck Biya and nine ministers...
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Other potential candidates include Franck Biya the president's son who until recently showed little interest (AC Vol 54 No 2 Après Biya fears)...
His son Franck Biya is well known to have no interest in following in his father's footsteps...
Still a subject of gossip is the presidential son the studiously apolitical Franck Emmanuel Biya...
Franck Emmanuel Biya was not on it indicating that he must have finally rejected all his father’s blandishments to inherit the family business (AC Vol 54 No 2 Aprés Biya blues & Family bonds)...
