South Region endorses Biya for 2025.

The position of the Region was made public at the Nko’ovos Grandstand in Ebolowa, South Region, on Saturday November 2.

This was during a mega gathering to project the documentary-film on the Head of State, Paul Biya. The production is titled: “Paul Biya, a great Statesman with an extraordinary destiny”.

Speaking at the rally, the leader of the South Region Permanent Delegation of the CPDM, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo, described Paul Biya as a unique Statesman.

He declared that the Region remains committed to massively vote for the Head of State, at the October 2025 presidential poll. 

“We hereby solemnly declare that His Excellency, Paul Biya, President of the Republic of Cameroon, Head of State, National President of the CPDM, is our candidate for the next presidential election,” Prof Fame Ndongo declared at the event.

He insisted that the decision is “in conformity with Article 37 (3) of the Statutes of the party, with a majority at the National Assembly and the Senate”.

Prof Fame Ndongo said like the title of the documentary-film suggests, President Biya has been a great Statesman with an extraordinary destiny, since he took the oath of office on November 6, 1982.

Forty-two years on, he argued, President Biya has not failed, adding that he will never fail. Prof Fame Ndongo sustained that Biya has worked with all, by all and for all, in his service to the nation.

Looking back 42 years ago when Biya became Head of State, he insisted that the South Region is pleased with what he said are manifold achievements in different sectors of national life.

Fam Ndongo mentioned gains in diplomacy, economy, finances, agriculture, roads, infrastructure, education, aviation, maritime, sports, cultural, touristic and social domains as telling of some of the many achievements of the New Deal. 

On this score, he said the people of the South Region are ready to give Biya another chance to once more lead Cameroon, come October 2025.

Before delving into issues around next year’s election, Fame Ndongo had extolled what he considers as Biya’s extraordinary wisdom, power of mobilisation, vision and patriotism. He raised the Head of State to a man of incomparable clairvoyance.

The South Region CPDM boss also saluted the quality of the documentary-film. He expressed delight that the best of equipment of the Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV, were used in the production of the piece. 

The Youth Section President of CPDM in Ma’amezam, Christian Nna, said the South Region went the extra mile to celebrate the Head of State more than other Regions where the documentary-film had been projected. He said the people of the South Region are proud of President Biya’s service to the nation.

Several members of government, among them the Minister of Finance Louis Paul Motaze; the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Jules Doret Ndongo; the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng; the Minister of Arts and Culture, Bidoug Mkpatt; the Minister of Decentralisation and Local Development, Georges Elanga Obam; among others, were present at the ceremony.

The members of government and other elite later staged a support walk on the streets of Ebolowa, in favour of President Biya.

Bike riders send motion of support

On the same day the rally was taking place in Ebolowa, scores of commercial biker riders stormed the office of the Governor of the South Region, Felix Nguele Nguele. 

They handed him a motion of support for onward transmission to the Head of State, calling on him to seek re-election.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3281 of Tuesday November 05, 2024