By NOELA EBOB B.
There is a wave of frenzy currently taking place across the country and beyond, pertaining to the publication of a list carrying an alleged result of the October 7 polls. This has resulted to various reactions, including that of some of the presidential candidates, notably Cabral Libii.
According to the alleged results which have dominated the social winner the incumbent president Paul Biya is expected to emerge winner with a landslide followed Maurice Kamto of MRC with Cabral Libii’s of UNIVERS and Joshua Osih of the SDF is in fourth place.
Cabral Libii of the UNIVERS party, ranked 3rd has taken to social media to state that “It is henceforth clear. On the basis of the minutes, information received from the field and statistics coming from the National Vote Counting Commission, the victory of the people of Cameroon at the Presidential elections is being scandalously stolen. Let the Cameroonian youth stand ready. Let the people of Cameroon stand up. They themselves are legitimising the revolution. This is excessive abuse of authority.”
From his words, many are wondering if he is endorsing the alleged results and calling for a nation-wide protest once the results are officially proclaimed.
On its part, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) of Maurice Kamto has come out with a statement announcing the assembling of a team of lawyers to defend its case at the constitutional council
According to the party, the consortium is made of prominent lawyers; in charge of ensuring the defence of its position during the litigation which will take place before the Constitutional Council, following the 2018 presidential elections.
“They will further explain the logic that will animate the appeal brought to the Constitutional Council with a view of claiming victory and the appeal for partial annulment of the elections of October 7”, it states.
Maurice Kamto statement
In a communiqué released on Monday, October 15, the Maurice Kamto campaign noted that “Information from the National Commission for the Recording of Votes on the results of the last presidential election is currently circulating in social networks. This information shows the victory of candidate Paul BIYA.
The MRC and the coalition formed around the candidacy of Maurice KAMTO, categorically reject these results which are the product of minutes manufactured, that false observers of Transparency International, unmasked, were intended to make accept the opinion national and international”.
The coalition, according to the communique continues to claim the victory of Maurice KAMTO in this election, according to the truth of the polls on the evening of October 7 2018. In addition, the coalition rejects all forms of violence that the regime would like him to endorse.
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“Information of the electoral results from the National Vote Counting Commission of the recent presidential election is currently circulating in the social media. According to this information, candidate Paul BIYA has won with an overwhelming victory. In reaction to this falsified victory, CRM and its coalition of political parties and other organisations built in support of the candidacy of Maurice KAMTO have categorically rejected these falsified results. These fake figures are originating from fabricated result shits of some fake observers who claimed to be of Transparency International, but were later on unmasked, as they were trying to convince the national and international public to accept.
The coalition in this election continues to insist on the victory of Maurice KAMTO in relation to the original result shits of the polls at the end of the day of October 7, 2018.
In addition, the coalition rejects all forms of violence the regime is struggling to attribute on the coalition. It wishes to inform the national and international public of the regime’s acts in orchestrating provocation to trigger post-election violence and at the same time blaming it on the coalition.
For example:
1) The questioning and hearing of some of our militants in various localities of the country by the security forces;
2) The intimidation of our militants and sympathizers by people who seem to belong to a militia in the neighbourhoods;
3) The incitement of ethnic hatred between communities by the use of tribalistic and ethnic slurs
4) The spread of hate speech in the public and certain private media;
5) The arbitrary arrest and detention of Mr. Thierry OKALA EBODE, Deputy National Treasurer of the CRM, whose only fault is to have denounced a fraud that involved the usurpation of his identity by another voter; the latter haven been assisted by the president of the polling station is until now surprising protected;
6) The expulsion, manu militari, from polling stations of representatives of CRM in most of the three Northern regions – Adamaoua, North and Far North , as well as in the East and South Regions, and certain divisions in the Centre, West and South West Regions;
7) Permanent harassment of coalition members by the security forces.
The coalition urges the people to remain vigilant and not to allow their victory to be stolen”
The Coalition for the candidacy of Maurice KAMTO
