Shockwaves are rippling through Cameroon’s ruling party as Maurice Tiibam Kube, a prominent CPDM official in the North West Region, has resigned in protest, accusing party officials and election authorities of orchestrating what he describes as a “mathematical miracle of fraud” in the October 12 presidential election results in Njinikom.
In a blistering resignation letter addressed to the CPDM Section President for Boyo I – Njinikom, Kube denounced the official results that credit President Paul Biya with 2,241 votes in the locality — figures he says are “statistically impossible” and “morally repugnant.”
“What happened in Njinikom is a national embarrassment and a direct assault on truth and decency,” Kube wrote. “How can 2,241 votes appear in a town where fewer than 130 people were seen at the lone polling centre on election day?”
He described the results as a “shameless fabrication”, accusing local party barons of “turning democracy into arithmetic witchcraft.”
“From Democratic Movement to Demolition Machine”
In one of the most scathing rebukes ever issued by a CPDM insider, Kube declared that the party has “mutated from a Democratic Movement into a Demolition Machine—demolishing truth, demolishing conscience, and demolishing the trust of the Cameroonian people.”
He said he could no longer lend his name to a process “that mocks the suffering of citizens who still believe in honest governance,” adding that he would “rather stand alone with the truth than march with a crowd of impostors.”
Growing Anger Over Questionable Results
Kube’s resignation comes amid a storm of controversy surrounding election figures from several parts of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, where turnout was reportedly dismal due to security fears, boycotts, and ghost town orders.
Yet, in what many observers have called “mathematically miraculous turnouts,” official tallies released by ELECAM show near-total victories for the incumbent in localities where voting barely occurred.
Cracks in the CPDM Fortress
Analysts say Kube’s exit could signal growing cracks within the CPDM, especially among local officials embarrassed by what they see as excessive manipulation of results.
“This resignation is not just symbolic — it’s a loud statement that even within the ruling party, some consciences are rebelling,” said a political observer in Bamenda. “If more voices like Kube’s emerge, the CPDM’s image of unity will crumble.”
Silent Headquarters
As of press time, CPDM headquarters in Yaoundé had not issued any statement in response to Kube’s resignation. Local party officials in Boyo have also declined to comment, though some described the former party man as “emotionally driven.”
Meanwhile, the story is fueling debate on social media, where users are hailing Kube as “a man of courage” and “the first to call out the fraud from within.”
