La République du Cameroun has a system in place to deal with the imminent inevitable transition. Well, not a system, a “law” or a legal device, at best, and a barely legal legal device! Could that be the reason why that device is still not being used and where did the clever idea for it come from. As La République du Cameroun remains firmly locked into an ever-decreasing circle, Ambazonia News wonders …

The advent of the post-Biya reality is pressing on La République du Cameroun. Logic would dictate that the Vice-Presidency would have been filled by now, by the obvious person for whom “Mr Biya”, or more realistically his minions of the RDPC, would have gone to the trouble of getting out-of-mandate ex-MPs to approve the creation of the VP post with the privilege of inheriting “his” hard-stolen term in office without having to earn it, has not been invested. That even though Mr Biya could/may soon be unable to lift a pen or raise his voice to execute that anointment. Why the delay?

Maybe Mr Biya has become aware that his Western mentors are not going to bring their approval to the charade. Mr. Macron may have made it known that he would not risk travelling to Yaounde to stand beside young Frank or whoever the minions hoped could provide “stability and continuity”. Much as the French would desperately want to maintain their vanishing presence in Africa, even they must surely have woken up to the reality that Africans no longer see his presence and “blessing” at an improvised illegitimate “transition” as a reason to bow to it.

It is also possible that the “governants” as the kleptocrats like to call themselves, have finally exposed their impotence in Ambazonia. After ten years of French-like genocide they have only managed to prove to Ambazonians that they have no honour or fidelity to their flag. They have killed toddlers on their way to school, massacred whole villages with children and pregnant women, arrested and “neutralized” young Ambazonians just because they were “suspected separatists”, and only proved they are the most vocal in demonstration the hollowness and utter delusion of “One Cameroun”. At once chanting it while actively proving the complete contrary!

Then there is the “delicate imbalance” within the RDPC where all sectors and regions would be questioning why it is not their turn at the chance of the high chair. Is it fair for the South to get the chair again ahead of the East?, the North?, The West? The Centre?, The Carpet bagger? The Ambazonians? Mr. Biya is no more able to fix it than “he” was before “he” ordered, more like bribed, the out-of-mandate hungry MPs to rubber-stamp his decision in a week – unlike other decisions which drag for decades. The while process only highlighted the illegitimacy and the unfair dominance of the executive over the legislature – ironically grating for a “legalist”, as certain politologs would call him! Just like the “army” proving in an Ambazonia that “One Cameroun” is a “No”, the RDPC proved in “parliament” that “Democracy and legitimacy/legality” are a “No” in La République du Cameroun. In trying to fix, the RDPC only breaks!

The unlikely kite of an Ambazonian VP was actually flown when rumours/speculation/manipulation had it that the Ambazonian President would be released and offered the post to solve, what they still call the “anglophone crisis”. As appealing as that would be as a solution, it would founder on its own lack of logic and incredibility! Why spend so much effort on genocide and then go that far in “solving” it alternatively. Why pass up the more credible opportunities of the Swiss Process and the Canadian pre-talks only to go for what would still, while apparently “internal”, a more costly solution in credibility and angst? That made no sense be was floated as a scenario. Why? Because people in La République are dumbfounded by the ineptitude of their very own RDPC and willing to reach for any kind of rationality somewhere within the kleptocracy.

RDPC politologs are also finding themselves on a sticky wicket to argue that young Frank should have an equal opportunity to be appointed VP as any other citizen! Not needed except, like all the RDPC’s solutions, it highlights the problem they have created to try to solve. In this paradox, yes he should have the same right as any other citizen (even though he does not given that “his father” is not considering another citizens) with or without equal opportunities! Even if he were, it would still be incongruous in a democratic state to use such undemocratic means to give one express person the right to impose, yes “impose” even though it is “not an imposition” as it is now legal! To maintain the balance and fairness the VP would need to be from anywhere else than the President, after all Mr Biya is most celebrated for engineering stability by distributing privileges.

The last explanation? Mr. Biya does not want to give up “his mandate” by nominating a VP, thereby announcing his imminent exit. He will wait to the “end” and hope that everyone believes he appointed a VP, which would be hardly legal given that that VP would have to go straight to President without “serving” a single day as VP! A ruse, if ever one were devised! Mandates belong to the “people”, who give them, or even have them seized, and should revert when the mandated is “indisposed”. At least the RDPC should have to steal it afresh for legality’s sake.

Who said any of this was about legality? They would like to say it, but that means they are highlighting the very illegality, or at least the illegitimacy of it! Meanwhile the clock is running down – and there will not be any additional time.

Adieux Cameroun! Welcome Ambazonia!