Cambodia - Me Touko Tom: “The historic mistake of Cameroon’s opposition”

Cameroonian lawyer Amédée Dimitri Touko Tom says the opposition’s historic mistake was giving the dictatorship the benefit of the doubt. In his analysis, he describes 93-year-old Paul Biya as nearing the end of his life and says two factions around him are fighting over succession. He alleges that one faction is preparing a military coup while the other is seeking to install a vice-president through an “institutional heist.” He criticizes the opposition for standing by and questions whether political alternation in Cameroon is anything more than an illusion.