Politics are Heating Up.

Things are getting ugly in the political aspect in Cameroon. The current president Paul Biya has stated that supports and non supports are not pleased with his tactics and attitude in the presidential campaign thus far. Biya has almost been the president of Cameroon for 30 years. The electron day is October 9th and he is trying to take as many voters as possible to get re-elected for another term as president.It has also been reported that Paul has been planning to win through the rigging of the election and fraud. It is strange because there are 22 total candidates across the nation campaigning and Paul has not been seen anywhere across the field campaigning. Christopher Ambe stated that he is worried that his candidate is sitting in his air conditioned office and sending us to the field as if we are slaves. A very harsh statement from one of Paul's own supporters. He then continued on to say that young people are even being paid to by Biya's movement to support Paul and take the streets in support of the leader. Democratic front, John Fru Ndi whats the one who accused Biya of him attempting to rig the election. Ndi is now noted as the only candidate going to all 10 regions of the west African nation and looks like the top runner as of late. Uneven government distribution of money to campaign with has also taken in effect. Biya has 20 billion central African francs (40 million US) while the rest of the 22 candidates have less than 1 billion francs to split between themselves. It appears that not just Biya himself is rigging the race but the government by providing Biya with 40 times the amount of money then the average candidate.


-By Kyle Gainey 


CB:Kyle Gainey




http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/03/world/africa/cameroon-election-campaign/index.html