Akere Muna Pledges Five-Year Transitional Presidency to Rebuild Cameroon

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Renowned anti-corruption advocate and legal luminary, Barrister Akere Muna, has officially declared his candidacy for Cameroon’s 2025 presidential election, vowing to serve only a single five-year term. This commitment aims to dismantle the entrenched “president-for-life” culture that has defined Cameroon’s politics for over four decades.

At 72, Muna says the country must “hit reset.” His vision is to provide a transitional presidency that will restore the institutions, empower the youth, and lay the foundations for a new democratic structure. “Five years. No more,” he emphasized—a direct rebuke to the culture of indefinite rule. His platform includes anti-corruption reforms, educational transformation, and meaningful industrial development.

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Muna has secured the backing of a coalition of 20 political parties and civic groups, including the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC). His emergence also raises a symbolic prospect: Cameroon could have its first Anglophone president. That possibility alone marks a historic shift in a country that has long wrestled with internal linguistic and regional divides.

His critics wonder whether his promise is realistic in a system historically resistant to power-sharing. But Muna, a former president of Transparency International and son of one of the country’s founding figures, insists that Cameroon’s problem is not a lack of ideas—it’s the refusal to implement them.

He promises a transitional government that will oversee credible reforms, then step aside.

But will Cameroonians trust another politician’s vow? Can Muna resist the temptations that have consumed his predecessors? And will the Biya regime even allow such a transition to unfold?

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