Onana urges CPDM to accept defeat if Tchiroma proves claim.

According to Onana who recently resigned from the ruling party, if Issa Tchiroma, candidate of the Cameroon National Salvation Front, FSNC, can prove he won, the CPDM should humbly accept defeat.

"The FSNC candidate announced that he will publish evidence of his victory…if the return sheets confirm his claim, I call on my former comrades in the CPDM to recognise their defeat," Onana wrote.

Onana’s call came hours after Tchiroma, immediate former Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, released a message early Sunday October 19, that he was going to release return sheets from 18 Divisions nationwide to justify his victory.

Tchiroma had said in his release Sunday that the 18 Divisions wherein he had claimed he had won make up 80 percent of the eight million voters on the electoral register.

At night fall Sunday, Tchiroma acted in line with his promise, releasing results from certain divisions which he said were extracted from return sheets signed by competent stakeholders.

At dawn Monday, the FSNC candidate had not released the procès-verbal from the 18 Divisions he mentioned Sunday. He rather issued a statement yesterday addressing criticisms sparked by the percentages in the reports which were beyond 100 percent.

Tchiroma in a statement insisted that, what his team released tied to what was brought from the field without any additions and subtractions. 

He explained that the figures were to bring the population and the international community face-to-face with what had transpired on election day.

It is still left to be seen if Tchiroma will publish figures in other divisions he mentioned in his address released to the public through social media Sunday from an unknown location.

The Divisions he mentioned included: Wouri, Moungo in the Littoral; Mfoundi and Lekie in the Centre; Mayo-Danay, Mayo-Tsanaga, Logone and Chari, Mayo-Kani in the Far North Region; Benue, Mayor Rey and Mayo Louti in the North Region 

Other administrative units the candidate mentioned are Vina, Lom and Djerem in the Adamawa Region; Noun, Menoua and Mifi in the West Region.

This story was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3601 of Tuesday October 21, 2025