THE ILLUSIONS OF THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:

Reading about the moves by the presidential hopefuls makes me ponder aloud. Do these so-called opposition candidates know how they are perceived by Kamerunians and how they perceive themselves? Do they know what they are doing? If yes, do they believe that their paths are right and to the interest of Kamerunians. If yes again, do they believe that their methods can bring down this outdated French-imposed system that is led by an election rigging monster, neurotic president and an enemy of the kamerunian masses in the name of Paul Biya? If yes again, then they are blind and out of touch with kamerunian reality. Even a single candidate cannot beat Biya’s fraudulent electoral machinery. The election is a farce. And by pursuing it to the end, Fru Ndi, Ndam Njoya and the others once again will be legitimizing Biya's fraud, and deserve to be charged with complicity in killing kamerun. They will be committing political suicide.

Take a read at Temfac Ofege's article entitled---Election Rigging in Cameroon: A State of the Devil's Art.  At http://www.postwatchmagazine.com/2004/10/election_riggin.html

Then you will understand what I am talking about. If those so-called opposition presidential hopefuls have not figured out that reality, then all I can say is that with more than a decade in politics they are still amateurs without thought formulations that they do not know what they are doing. If they think they know what they are doing, then they are continuing in the path towards the final betrayal of the struggle.

Kamerun will never change unless the exponents of change become the pace-setters in the electoral process. Or else, we shall continue to wander in the wilderness of incomprehension, drunk with rhetoric, capable of causing a stir only, but incapable of changing the system; thereby making our actions futile and dismal.

October 04, 2004                                                                      Janvier  Tchouteu