Tchiroma rallies diaspora against Biya regime’s “monarchical drift”.

The move, the self-exiled opposition politician has insisted, would help in restoring the “legitimacy of the ballot box as was overwhelmingly expressed by Cameroonians during the last Presidential election”. 

His appeal is the content of a message he penned to Cameroonian diaspora, civil society organisations, activists, and whistleblowers. It was released on his social media platforms yesterday. 

“Your duty should be to mobilize in a coordinated manner and to work in synergy to make our common goal a reality as quickly as possible,” Tchiroma appealed, while saluting all diaspora compatriots for not staying indifferent in denouncing “the abyss into which our country has sunk”. 

Tchiroma said the “advent of a New Cameroon” absolutely depends on the “restoration of the legitimacy” of his “victory” in the October 12 presidential election.

For the former member of government was categorical that the country is in an “extremely critical moment” with undemocratic moves by the regime barons in the “midst of growing poverty and the deepening of the national debt”. 

Tchiroma appealed on the patriotic duty of all to ensure the global concensus against the regime in Yaounde and not allow it to be undermined by “not thwarted by divisions, controversies, polemics, dissensions, unnecessary battles, and sometimes personal attacks on social media”.

He recommended continued “coordinated and well-organised mobilisation, in the supreme interest of Cameroon, for the restoration of the truth of the ballot box and the advent of genuine and rapid change in our country”. 

Tchiroma cited the “suspicious creation of the position of an appointed Vice President” as an illustration of the “anti-democratic maneuvers that undermine our Republic”.

He said the Constitutional amendment is “tailored to suit a single and illegitimate individual to the detriment of the well-being of over 30 million of our fellow compatriots”. 

The FSNC leader also credited the diaspora for making his “victory” in the October 2025 presidential election possible and resisting the “theft of that victory by the regime in power”, preventing him from implementing the project for the Transition and Transformation of Cameroon.

Tchiroma said his success in ejecting the Yaounde regime can only be made possible, “if no one strays from the ultimate cause; if leadership rivalries give way to the general interest and to full blown and total mobilisation”. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3754 of Wednesday April 08, 2026