Joshua Osih of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) has chosen a moderate approach avoiding the fierce criticism of Biya that Kamto and his late predecessor John Fru Ndi embraced (AC Vol 64 No 25 No end to the legal opposition's long vigil)...
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...
Maurice Kamto of Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun (MRC) Cabral Libii of Parti camerounais pour la réconciliation nationale (PCRN) and Joshua Osih of the historically Anglophone Social Democratic Front (SDF) are all forced into a straitjacket of conformity with the regime which bodes ill for the 2025 general election...
Once with a mere 18 seats in the previous parliament of 180 seats the SDF now has only five having been overtaken as main opposition party by Maurice Kamto's Mouvement pour la Rennaissance du Cameroun (MRC) in the 2018 election Fru Ndi having ceded leadership of the SDF to Joshua Osih his long-time deputy (AC Vol 59 No 20 Limbo after ghost elections)...
Joshua Osih of the Social Democratic Front takes up the mantle of chief opposition candidate from John Fru Ndi who had angered some oppositionists by refusing to step aside after losing to Biya in every poll since 1992 when many believe he was cheated out of victory by electoral fraud...
Yet many see Joshua Nambangi Osih or Joseph Lukong Banadzem as better qualified...
The party's First Vice-Chairman Joshua Osih Nabangi defends the decision to contest this time on the grounds that the boycotts of the 1992 legislative and 1997 presidential elections changed nothing...
The ageing and ineffectual John Fru Ndi who stood against Biya in elections for 22 years is set to be succeeded by Joshua Osih as leader of the Social Democratic Front...