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Cameroonian President Paul Biya says he would be seeking an eighth term in office in October’s presidential election. 

Biya is 92 years old and is the world’s oldest serving president.

He announced his intent on Sunday via his official X and Facebook accounts in French and English.

“I’m running for the presidential election on October 12, 2025,” the Facebook post reads.

“Rest assured that my determination to serve you is matched to the severity of the challenges before us. Together there are no challenges we cannot overcome. The best is still to come.”

Biya’s decision to contest the presidential elections could keep him in power until he is nearly 100.

He came to power more than four decades ago in 1982.

Last month, rumours of a military coup ousting Biya went viral on social media, but Cable Check, the fact-checking arm of TheCable, found them to be false.

Rumours about the 92-year-old president often intensify during periods when he is out of the public eye for extended periods.

But the president has been posting regularly in the buildup to Sunday’s announcement.

Last year, rumours about his death sparked widespread speculation after he was absent from the public space for over a month.

The government responded by banning local media from discussing his health and officially denying the rumours, confirming he was alive and in good health, often resting in Geneva.

F117nighthawk:
They don't learn anything at all ,their ears and eyes has been blocked with cotton wool.
as If God knows people like this will exist in this world especially in Africa that is why he made death mandatory for every human being.
If not people like this useless, selfish, greedy African leaders will live and rule for ever .
The ultimate end and death of many of their likes in power still does teach them anything to learn as an example

braveboi4life:
Tomorow when he passes on and people begin to celebrate his death,.some people will.start preaching ...how do you explain a man whom has ruled for more than 40years without meaningful impact yet wants to.continue and die on the throwwn

sleek214:
Why are you guys quick to shout Africa? What of Putin of Russia, the guy from North Korea

owobokiri:
Most of them are brainwashed by Western propaganda. They see themselves as inferiors. Very incapable of any sort of independent thinking..
You made a valid point, but watch him argue and argue and argue.

It is the same in everything. I once pointed out to someone here that to all intent and purposes, Britain is still a monarchy. I mean if Britain was situated in Africa, her political system with the unelected King/Queen/House of Lords abilities to overrule the verdict of elected Parliament, she would be considered as being undemocratic and retrogressive... Come and see as a fellow Nigerian was busy defending the British monarchy as vintage democracy.

I pointed out to a Nigerian here that most Chinese construction companies in Nigeria are government owned and are highly profitable ventures for China. He wouldn't listen. As far as he is concerned, government ownership of companies is bad. America has said it so it must be! But is there any Chinese bank that is as profitable and efficient as The Bank of China?

They will tell you that "the worst democracy is better than the best military rule".., what unreserched outburst. Which democratic government in this country has been good to Nigerians and effective in developing the country as the military regimes in say Libya, Egypt, Spain, South Korea, Brazil or even Burkina Faso here?

sleek214:
Why are you guys quick to shout Africa? What of Putin of Russia, the guy from North Korea

F117nighthawk:
They don't learn anything at all ,their ears and eyes has been blocked with cotton wool.
as If God knows people like this will exist in this world especially in Africa that is why he made death mandatory for every human being.
If not people like this useless, selfish, greedy African leaders will live and rule for ever .
The ultimate end and death of many of their likes in power still does teach them anything to learn as an example

owobokiri:
Most of them are brainwashed by Western propaganda. They see themselves as inferiors. Very incapable of any sort of independent thinking..
You made a valid point, but watch him argue and argue and argue.

It is the same in everything. I once pointed out to someone here that to all intent and purposes, Britain is still a monarchy. I mean if Britain was situated in Africa, her political system with the unelected King/Queen/House of Lords abilities to overrule the verdict of elected Parliament, she would be considered as being undemocratic and retrogressive... Come and see as a fellow Nigerian was busy defending the British monarchy as vintage democracy.

I pointed out to a Nigerian here that most Chinese construction companies in Nigeria are government owned and are highly profitable ventures for China. He wouldn't listen. As far as he is concerned, government ownership of companies is bad. America has said it so it must be! But is there any Chinese bank that is as profitable and efficient as The Bank of China?

They will tell you that "the worst democracy is better than the best military rule".., what unreserched outburst. Which democratic government in this country has been good to Nigerians and effective in developing the country as the military regimes in say Libya, Egypt, Spain, South Korea, Brazil or even Burkina Faso here?