The Fixed Outcomes of Cameroon’s Jurisprudence: A Nation at the Breaking Point.

In Cameroonian jurisprudence, it often seems like there are no fixed rules, only fixed outcomes. This bitter truth looms large as the controversial Constitutional Council prepares to announce the results of the October 12, 2025, presidential election. Leaks have confirmed what many feared: Paul Biya, the 92-year-old president with a shuffling gait and a blank stare, will be declared the winner. But Cameroonians have signaled that the injustices of 1992 against John Fru Ndi and 2018 against Maurice Kamto will not be repeated. On Sunday, at 3:00 p.m., the streets will erupt in nationwide protests—a collective roar from a nation that has finally grown a spine.

The Biya regime is in full-blown panic. Tchiroma, the former government spokesman, knows where the dead bodies are buried, and they’re scared. While Tchiroma has published tally sheets from election precincts, exposing the regime’s ugly underbelly of corruption, neither Elecam nor the government has released publicly a single official tally. It’s now known that ballot boxes were hosted in the homes of party faithful, stuffed to the brim with fraudulent votes. This is not governance; it’s a grotesque display of criminality and misconduct, a regime so desperate it’s resorted to blatant theft in plain sight.

In a futile attempt to stifle dissent, they cut the internet on Friday—a move so predictable it’s almost laughable. Their playbook is clear: censor first, then punish. Opposition leaders now languish behind bars, their voices smothered. But when you push speech underground, it becomes fetid, festering into something far more dangerous. Cameroonians are chomping at the bit, ready to dismantle this lazy, corrupt, criminal, sclerotic system.

For decades, Biya’s regime has dug itself deeper into a hole of its own making. And the first rule of holes is simple: when you’re in one, stop digging. Yet, full steam ahead, they are prepared to hand Biya another victory, as if history were chiseled in stone, unchangeable and eternal. This is a pact with the devil, propped up by craven butt-kissers whose defenses are striking in their sheer mendacity. They peddle a bottomless well of misinformation, believing, as George Orwell warned, that “history has stopped,” and nothing exists except an endless present where the Party is always right.

But Cameroonians are keeping their power dry. Sunday’s protests signal a journey of contrition for a nation that refuses to be silenced. If Biya and his crime family, the CPDM go down, it will be poetic justice at its finest—Charles Dickens couldn’t write a better ending. As John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.” This regime, scientifically groundless and collapsing under its own deceit, is nipping at its own heels, teetering on the edge of oblivion.

Early in the week, we learned that Biya, through some backdoor approach offered the prime minister’s post to Tchiroma who won the election if he’d stop contesting the election. This is not just narcissism—it’s a confession of intellectual bankruptcy, like the devil being upset the thermostat in hell is broken. Thomas Jefferson’s advice rings true: “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Cameroonians are standing firm, unwilling to play nice with a regime that demands they comply or die.

This is a cautionary tale we all must learn from. If we do not join now to save the good old ship called Cameroon on this voyage, as Abraham Lincoln might have put it, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another. The defining image of this collapsing presidency is not just Biya’s frailty, incompetence and corruption but the scar tissue of a nation battered by decades of lies. Honesty is an expensive gift, and Cameroonians know not to expect it from cheap people. If there is a hell, let there be a special, extra-hot, extra-spiky ledge for those who perpetuate this regime’s cruelty and ciminality.

Cameroon stands at a crossroads. The protests on Sunday are not just a reaction to a stolen election; they are a declaration that the people will no longer tolerate fixed outcomes masquerading as justice. With Tchiroma’s revelations and the regime’s naked fraud exposed, the will of the people is a tide that cannot be stopped. For those who still prop up this failing system, heed this: evil can never be dead enough, and Cameroonians are ready to bury it once and for all.