Paul Biya Fails To Announce His Own Candidacy

It is being reported that "a minister" has announced that Cameroon's Paul Biya will be the "candidate of the CPDM," the ruling party in Cameroon, for the forthcoming presidential election in the country. True to his dictatorial form, Biya himself does not see it fit to announce to the Cameroonian people that he would stand for the election. Because he sees himself as above all else in Cameroon, he leaves the announcement to a lowly minister. The repeated miracle in Cameroon is that a president who never announces his own bid for the presidency often ends up winning. Why would Biya waste his time to personally announce his own bid for the presidency or even campaign personally when he has already rigged the election in his favor?