17/10/2025
STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 12 OCTOBER 2025.
On 12 October, Cameroonian voters turned out en masse to exercise their fundamental civic right by electing a President of the Republic for their country. I congratulate them.
Reports reaching us through various public media outlets indicate that since then, tensions have been rising dangerously in the country due to public concerns about various reprehensible acts and conducts committed by certain individuals during the election, which could compromise the final outcome.
Cameroonians are already suffering greatly from rampant poverty, the devastation of armed conflict in the North-West and South-West regions, and the indiscriminate killings by the Boko Haram sect, particularly in the Far North region. Our country cannot afford the luxury of further violent confrontations between Cameroonians in the wake of this presidential election, in which voters turned out en masse and undoubtedly made their voices heard loud and clear.
Therefore, in order to spare Cameroon further tragedies, confrontations and divisions that could affect it in the long term, it is imperative that the official results correspond to the choice made by Cameroonian voters in good conscience at the ballot box. In other words, the verdict of the ballot box must be respected.
Those responsible for maintaining public order must exercise discernment and the utmost restraint, and refrain from treating citizens who have expressed their choice by peaceful means and refuse to be robbed of their rights as criminals. Those who threaten public order are those who seek to change the outcome of the ballot box, not the other way around. Cameroon is our common nation. It is our only nation. It will outlive us all. We do not have the right to push it further and further into the basement of the history of nations, destroying, every seven years, its chances for development, shared progress and international influence.
Done at Yaoundé, 17 October 2025
Maurice KAMTO
