CPDM, Alliance for Change ready for 2025!.

The election was not a surprise, but it turned out as a notice to the ruling party that Kamto was ready to wrestle power out of the ruling party at the next presidential election, slated for 2025. or earlier if President Paul Biya decides to precipitate it as it is his legal prerogative.
It was not even the MRC which blew the whistle to a crescendo, but the outspoken parliamentarian, Hon Jean Michel Nintcheu, who leads his Front for Change in Cameroon, FCC, party after being expelled from the SDF.
First, he went under the sensitive skin of the ruling party to expose both the Achilles' heel of the government and that of the Head of State, who could likely be the candidate of the CDPM party.
He said the country was at "...the end of a reign in which President Biya will be 91 in less than three months. A context in which decisions affecting the life of the nation are taken in the morning and reversed in the afternoon. A context in which Cameroon is on autopilot, due to President Biya's inability to govern, with camps clashing fiercely for the control of power”.
He said to succeed at the 2025 election, requires the coming together of the forces of change, in order to build a real dynamism around the person who best embodies the opposition to unseat President Biya and his regime.
He then asked a series of questions: “In any case, the questions that every political leader and every Cameroonian committed to the ideals of change must ask themselves are the following: Who objectively best embodies the opposition in Cameroon today? Who gives President Biya and his regime the most sleepless nights? Which political party's public demonstrations, with a few exceptions, are systematically banned? Which political leader is the object of a veritable obstacle on the part of the dictatorial regime in Yaounde?”
In answering his own questions, which was the climax of the convention, he declared. “I launch a patriotic appeal for the pooling of forces for change in order to build a real dynamic around the person who best embodies the opposition to Mr. Biya. And it’s Professor Kamto”.
The response was not long in coming. And it was a big “yes” from Kamto, which was greeted with a deafening applause from a hall packed to capacity.
He then added that: “It is indeed time that we clarify the game for Cameroonians, because, deep down, our people want to see a united opposition. This is why I accept, at least, some members of what we can call it the Political Alliance for Change in Cameroon have called very clearly for this alliance to be formed around me".
The parliamentarian, who was elected on the ticket of the SDF, in confirming Kamto for the leadership of the Alliance, added that "in fact, the Yaounde regime itself has designated you [Kamto] as the man to bring down and as its most credible adversary!”.
“No, we must not repeat the mistakes of the past…we must reverse the paradigm...and build momentum around him!”, Nintcheu pleaded. 
Re-echoing, the National President of the Popular Action Party, PAP, Denis Njang, whose party has footprints mainly in the South West Region, said they were ready for the coalition to unseat the current regime.
He said if there is no such viable opposition coalition, the nation’s hard-earned democracy will suffer.    
“At the Popular Action Party, we believe that the voice of every citizen of Cameroon must be heard in decision making process. This necessitates the reform of our democratic institution as they function today so that the executive can be truly held accountable to the legislature,” Njang said.
Major opposition parties were present at the convention, including the UNDP of Bouba Bello, but it is not clear if all of them are in the alliance. The major absentee was the SDF, which gives credence to pundits that Osih Joshua, the new National Chairman, is more inclined to the ruling party than the opposition.
For the interest of the progress in the country's democratic evolution, The Guardian Post has always supported a strong opposition that can battle the ruling party with pragmatic debates on issues that affect Cameroonians for the electorate to make informed choices.
For Kamto, his MRC and the Political Alliance for Change, it is one thing to fill the Yaounde Conference Centre to the stretching limits and pulling unprecedented crowds at rallies, but another thing to get those crowds register and vote.
While the Alliance is said to be ready even if elections are precipitated, we hope the CPDM is set for a free, fair, credible and transparent election with amendment of the electoral law for a level playing field before 2025.