“The electoral calendar has become a state secret”: Abdouraman Hamadou Babba sounds the alarm months before municipal and parliamentary elections

In a Facebook post on October 21, 2026, Abdouraman Hamadou Babba condemned the opacity of Cameroon’s electoral calendar and warned of a possible third extension of municipal councillors’ terms. He noted that lawmakers’ terms were extended until December 20, 2026, and municipal councillors’ terms until February 28, 2027, and argued that the elections should fall within January 30–April 19 and January 30–February 8, 2027, respectively. On the assumption that the parliamentary and municipal elections are held together, he said voters must be summoned between November 2 and 9 or another municipal term extension would be unavoidable. The article notes that his projections depend on simultaneous elections and are not an officially set schedule; his allegation that the uncertainty is being used deliberately against the opposition is unsupported by evidence in his post.