President Paul Biya’s sudden absence has been a major concern for Cameroonian citizens and Africans at large.
91-year-old Cameroonian president – Paul Biya has been a topic of discussion across social and traditional media for the past few days, following his notable absence from the Summit of French-Speaking countries (La Francophonie ) which took place at Viller Cotterêts, in the north of Paris.
The second long-standing president slightly beaten in this record by Guinean President, Obiang Nguema, is expected to the candidate for the 2025 presidential elections in Cameroon. As such, his sudden silence and disappearance from the political scenes, has sparked several suggestions about his demise, a narrative that the country’s spokesman René Sadi, immediately debunked, assuring netiznes and citizens, that the president will be back on duty in the days ahead.
Dating back to 2004, President Biya, after hearing rumors about his death, gave those who badly wanted him gone, a 20 years rendezvous. It’s exactly 2024, making it 20 years and his absence might gave prompted many to take his 2004 words for it, but he’s unsurprisingly waxing stronger, according to internal sources from the presidency.
Before missing the Summit for French-Speaking countries, Biya, had previously attended China-Africa Summit in Beijing, earlier in September, even though he didn’t turn up for thr UN General Assembly in New York eventually.
Many rumors about the Cameroonian president’s death should always be taken with a pinch of salt, as he has defied the odds every single time many announced his demise.
With an unending Anglophone crisis which has claimed several innocent lives since 2016, Many eyes are still on the incumbent president, as they await a solution that will be an end to the crisis and eventually national peace.
It is therefore, with confirmation from the presidency, that the president will be back in the days ahead, Cameroonians can expect yet another “Rendezvous” when their leader returns from his hiatus.
