ISSA TCHIROMA BAKARY by Cameroon gives up the “broken” government to challenge Paul Bean for President

Issa Tciroma Bakari-Nirect Minister and longtime ally of President Paul Breed-left the government of Cameroon, hoping to end four decades for the power of the 92-year-old beat in the power of the upcoming elections.

Just four months before the Central African nation went to the ballot box, Bakari says that the Breck administration in which he was part of the “violated” public confidence and he moved to a rival political party.

“A country cannot exist in the service of one person,” Tehiroma said on Wednesday.

While he was a minister of communications, baccoons more specially fell under a fire for denial – Then retreat Of his refusal – that Cameroon soldiers killed women and children in a viral video Checked by BBC Africa EyeS

His other roles for almost two decades in the government have included a spokesman for the Brez government, and until his resignation on Tuesday, he was an employment minister.

Paul Bean – the oldest head of state in the world – has not yet confirmed whether he will stand the president’s seventh time. Last year, the country banned President’s health reports After rumors that he diedS

So corruption And security. The separatist uprising in the English-speaking provinces, as well as the jihadists operating in the northernmost region, forced many thousands of Cameroons from their homes over the last decade.

The cracks in Bakari’s relations with the President Bow were opened earlier this month when he said to the crowds in his hometown of Garua that the time of the beating did not use them in any way.

Bakari continued this criticism in the 24 -page manifesto, released the day after his resignation, promising to dismantle the “old system” so that Cameroon could pass beyond “abuse, contempt and confiscation of power.”

One of his proposed decisions is the federalism – he proposes to hold a referendum to transfer more power in the 10 provinces of Cameroon. This has long been harvested by many as a solution for the so -called English crisis in the countryS

Moreover with the English -language Camerossians, he said that “you do not need people to talk about you – you have to be heard” and that “centralization has failed.”

Bakari also uses his manifesto to say that Cameroon “has been ruled for decades of the same vision, the same system. This model, long represented as a precaution of stability, gradually suffocates the progress, paralyzes our institutions and violates the connection of confidence between the state and its citizens.”

As the October presidential election approaches, the rights groups condemned the government’s repression of disagreement.

Shortly after Bakari announced his plans to run for the Presidency, It is reported that the government has banned all political activities by its party on Cameroon’s National Rescue Front (CNSF) in the subsection of the distant region of the Far North Region – Part of the country where it is said to be an influential broker of power.

Weeks earlier, the presidential hope Maurice Kamto was abbreviated during a two-day police stake in Dual after Promising supporters of a rally in Paris that he will protect the beating and his family If he wins in October.

The parliamentary elections, which also had to be held early this year, were delayed until 2026.

The reaction of Bakari’s presidential offer is mixed – some believe he is inviting.

“By positioning himself as the older statesman who” saw the fire coming “, Tehiroma Hedjira, that his interruption with the beating would be regarded as bold – not opportunistic,” Cameroonian analyst and television operator Jules Domche told the BBC.

“From the economic fall to youth unemployment, insecurity and increasing excitement in the northwest, southwest and far north (regions), Cameroon is ripe for change.”

The opposition votes are separated – some want baccars to support Kamto, who was a runner -up in 2018 with 14% of the vote. But others say that Bakari is tainted by his long relationship with Beh.

“He can’t embody the change … He was part of the system for too long. The young man doesn’t trust him,” says Abdulay Harisu, a legal notary and a prominent critic detained once by the government.

Another member of the opposition – Jean Michel Nintcheu of the APC coalition – just said, “We don’t see tchiroma as a potential winner.”