By Christopher Ambe
Ndim Jacob,2025 Presidential Hopeful
A 32-year old man from Njinikom in the Northwest Region who is reportedly a Political Science PhD student of the University of Columbia, has vowed to challenge President Paul Biya at the 2025 presidential election, even as the incumbent has not indicated his intention to stand for reelection.
Ndim Jacob told The Horizon in Buea in an interview, last Friday July 29,that the failure of the Biya government to resolve the on-going Anglophone crisis and a revelation he received from the Almighty God urging him to save the country from hardship and misery, have prompted him to announce his intention to contest the presidential election in 2025, the year that he will turn 35,the legal age to gun for the country ‘s most important job.
Article Six (5) of the Constitution of Cameroon says: “Candidates for the office of President must be Cameroonian by birth, enjoy their civic and political rights and must have attained the age of 35 by the day of the election.”
“ I have decided to take up the challenge because of the socio-political crisis in Cameroon and the frustration of the youths, to challenge the incumbent President ,Paul Biya ,in the 2025 presidential elections”, he stated.
Although Cameroon has over 300 political parties, Ndim said he will contest as an independent candidate, noting that a committee will be put in place to plan his electoral victory -which victory, he claimed, will redeem Cameroon from the grip of President Biya, who has ruled the country since November 1982.
Asked if he was viable enough to mobilize resources and voters to vote for him when the moment came, Ndim instead decried the malpractice of using money to buy the consciences of voters during elections. “I want young people to understand that money is not everything; they should look for somebody who is capable of [brightening their future]”
Assessing the incumbent Biya’s about four decades of leadership,the 2025 presidential hopeful thought that Mr. Biya “has done the best he could do but the problem is his [ministers]”
Asked if he would accept an appointment as minister by President Biya in his government, Ndim said accepting such an appointment was disgraceful.
He urged Cameroonians to join forces with him so to realize his presidential ambition, which is to develop Cameroon for the common good.
* Billa Solomon, Ndobe Sih Sylvia and Joy Bikom , University of Buea Journalism Students on Internship, contributed to report.
(This report was first published in The Horizon Newspaper,Cameroon of Friday August 5,2022 )
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