{"id":3484,"date":"2024-08-23T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:28:11","slug":"cameroon-president-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-down-to-run-again-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon President Shows No Signs of Slowing Down, to Run Again at 93&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2023-08-31_111835872-696x556-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2023-08-31_111835872-696x556-1.png 696w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/image_2023-08-31_111835872-696x556-1-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Paul Biya of Cameroon is set to contest the country\u2019s next presidential election at the age of 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biya, who is Africa\u2019s longest serving president, is currently 91 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will contest in the 2026 Presidential Election to seek an eighth term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founder of the Foreign Press Association Africa, Kennedy Wandera disclosed this Thursday, August 22, citing TheEastAfrican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report read: \u201cCameroon is due to hold its next presidential election in 2025, longtime President Paul Biya will be 93. He has confirmed that he will contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf he wins the election, and completes the new seven-year mandate, Biya will be 100 years in 2032.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, Biya\u2019s decision to delay the election by a year (postponed from 2025 to 2026) , and to allow him to contest depite his age, has angered the opposition in Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report stated that opposition politicians may not be allowed to contest, leaving Biya free to win again and serve for 7 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biya has served as the President for 42 years since 1982. He also served as the Prime Minister for 7 years from 1975 to 1982 before then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He postponed the Parliamentary and Municipal elections until 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCameroon\u2019s parliament last month approved Biya\u2019s request to postpone parliamentary and Municipal elections until 2026 to allow some breathing space, claiming that the political calendar is crowded,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Biya of Cameroon is set to contest the country\u2019s next presidential election at the age of 93. Biya, who is Africa\u2019s longest serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}