The Constitutional Council confirmed in a press statement yesterday that the result of the October 12 presidential poll will be proclaimed Monday October 27. The announcement came amid rising tension across the country between supporters of hard-talking FSNC candidate, Issa Tchiroma Bakary and incumbent Paul Biya of the CPDM who had been bracing up for the expected result proclamation which had been widely rumored would take place today Friday October 23.
The result of the 2025 presidential election will be proclaimed on Monday October 27. The Constitutional Council made the announcement in a press release issued yesterday. The move came as a surprise to many, rumors having widely circulated since last week claiming that the result of the presidential poll was going to be proclaimed this Thursday October 23, 2025.
“The President of the Constitutional Council hereby announces that the session to proclaim the results of the election of President of the Republic of 12 October 2025 shall hold on Monday, 27 October 2025 at 11:00 a.m. in the Inaugural Hall of the Conference Centre of Yaounde,” the press statement signed by the President of the Constitutional Council, Clément Atangana, reads.
Incumbent Paul Biya of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM and Issa Tchiroma Bakary of the Cameroon National Salvation Front, FSNC are tipped as the two frontrunners to be declared winners of the Sunday October 12 presidential poll where a total of 12 candidates were on the starting block. The Constitutional Council’s declaration announcing the postponement of the proclamation of the outcome came amid rising tension across the country between Cameroonians who are believed to be strong supporters of the hard-talking FSNC candidate and the incumbent Head of State.
Both factions had been impatiently bracing for the expected proclamation. Supporters of the FSNC candidate have been particularly protesting what they describe as foul play that is currently being cooked by the regime in place to ensure that the incumbent Head of State is falsely declared winner.
Protests have been held across the nation’s capital Yaounde, Dschang and Bafoussam in the West Region, Douala in the Littoral and across Garoua and Maroua in the North and Far North regions respectively. One of the protests led to the shooting to death of a female teacher in Garoua in the North Region.
The teacher whose father told Cameroonian broadcaster, Equinox TV that she was not a part of the protest, was killed last Tuesday October 21 by a stray bullet, according to sources. The protests have since also led to some administrators banning the circulation of motorbike in parts of Douala in the Wouri Division of the Littoral Region and Garoua in the Benue Division of the North Region.
Hard-talking Tchiroma restates victory claim
Despite the bans from administrators, FSNC leader and candidate for the October 12 poll, Issa Tchiroma Bakary who announced last week that he had won the election, continued restating the claim. “If the Constitutional Council proclaims falsified and truncated results, it will be complicit in a breach of trust.
The vast majority of the Cameroonian people will never accept the Council’s validation of the historic scale of ballot box stuffing and falsification, which has been brought to the attention of the world,” Tchiroma stated in a statement issued yesterday, urging his supporters to take to the streets and protest against the alleged manipulations if the Constitutional Council proclaims a result that do not reflect the will of the people. “The people will not stand for it.
The people are determined to fight against a regime that is deaf to their suffering and difficulties, faced with the turmoil of an uncertain future,” the FSNC leader who had in an earlier outing, indirectly claimed that the regime had approached him for a possible dialogue on the outcome of the result before it is officially proclaimed, further stated. “Together, we are preparing to take up this challenge to our compatriots in the north, south, east, and west.
Regardless of our location worldwide, we will unite as one nation to protect and promote our values. We will march and protest together, hand in hand, in friendship, brotherhood, and solidarity, for the long haul if necessary. We will overcome this predatory oligarchy that confiscates our freedoms and reduces us to poverty and despair,” the candidate added.
CPDM bigwigs go mute
Despite the back-to-back outings restating the victory claim, bigwigs of the CPDM have surprisingly gone calm in the last 48 to 72 hours. The CPDM strongmen had earlier come out to counter the claims of the FSNC candidate by notably arguing that he lacks what it takes to have a comprehensive knowledge of how the election unfolded to be able to independently determine its possible outcome.
The silence of the regime barons created a continuously tensed atmosphere, the candidates of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation, PCRN and the Social Democratic Front having also withdrawn the complaints that they had filed to the Constitutional Council. Cabral Libii and Joshua Osih had earlier headed to the Constitutional Council alleging multiple foul plays on the conduct of the poll.
The withdrawals left the complaint filed by candidate Tomaino Ndam Njoya of the Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU as the lone major candidate with a complaint on the conduct of the election all her case was also rejected by the Constitutional Council in a ruling that the party has since termed unfair and unlawful.
