Towering in a little bush somewhere in Yaounde, is a giant billboard portrait of a smiling Biya, with the caption: "Le choix du peuple." The man has already declared himself the people's choice because he has already rigged the election well in advance. He does not run on his record because he knows that his record is dismal. That is why he does not even bother to campaign. Having surrounded himself with the military and stooges, he knows he needs no record to run on; he simply needs to declare that he is the people's choice, and it will be so - like the decrees he has been signing. He does not even seem to be aware that the giant poster that bears his cynical smile is standing in a bush. He does not need to clean up his country because that is not his business. That is why he prefers to throw his people in the bush while spending most of his time in other people's countries in Europe. While some dictators, at least, pretend to have some patriotic fervor, Biya is just too scornful of Cameroonians that he does not even pretend to be a patriot. It is clear magic that a politician who never campaigns always wins elections! This farce of an election that he is running in Cameroon is null and void from the start. Biya is not a legitimate president. This coming election will make him more illegitimate as he seeks to declare himself winner.
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