Cameroon: Maroua youth slowly but surely moving away from President Biya

Hundreds of young people from the town of Maroua, the regional capital of the Far North have disassociated themselves from the current political trend aimed at addressing a motion of support to President Biya to seek another term in the next presidential election to be held in 2018.
 
The youth massively attended a national forum last February 26 at the council hall in Maroua and openly challenged the idea of Mr Biya running again for president. The young men and women chanted anti Biya slogans in the room at the time when a girl picked from the crowd was about reading a motion reportedly prepared by an acolyte of Minister Amadou Ali.  
 
Our Maroua correspondent hinted that the youth predominantly from the ruling CPDM party made it abundantly clear that the motion was not included in the official program and that it was an attempt by government officials to politicize the workshop on youth.
 
Asabe Issatou who spoke to the media immediately after the controversy started revealed that "In our country, we want to politicize everything. Why must we submit a motion of support to the president just because we attended a workshop? I think we have been misruled for three decades. This is how they will collect signatures from workshop participants to say they strongly support Paul Biya".