Yaoundé | October 27, 2025 — ADBN TV
Cameroon’s 92-year-old President, Paul Biya, has secured a controversial eighth term in office after winning 53.7 percent of the vote in the October 12 presidential election, according to results announced by the Constitutional Council on Monday.
His closest rival, former government minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, garnered 35.2 percent, despite claiming victory days earlier and alleging widespread irregularities.
The announcement came amid deadly unrest, with four people reported killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters protesting alleged electoral fraud. Authorities said demonstrators attacked police stations and a gendarmerie unit in Douala, prompting a violent crackdown.
Tchiroma, who maintains he won 54.8 percent of the votes based on his own tally, had urged his supporters to march peacefully despite a government ban on public gatherings. Witnesses told AFP that security forces fired live rounds after using tear gas to disperse crowds.
Biya — the world’s oldest serving head of state and Cameroon’s second leader since independence from France in 1960 — will now extend his 43-year rule for another seven years.
Critics accuse him of entrenching authoritarian control, repressing dissent, and maintaining power through manipulated electoral systems and state dominance. Despite decades of political unrest, economic inequality, and separatist insurgency, Biya has remained firmly in command of the Central African nation.
