As the October 2025 presidential election approaches, Hon Cabral Libii, leader of the PCRN and declared candidate, has delivered an extensive exposé on what he describes as a sophisticated and long-standing system of electoral fraud that, he claims, has helped the ruling party maintain its grip on power for decades. Speaking directly to his “compatriots from north to south, east to west, and abroad”, Libii urged Cameroonians to unite in combating these practices, which he argues threaten the very possibility of democratic change.
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Cabral Libii began by noting that his candidacy had overcome “numerous obstacles” placed in its path by political opponents, but stressed that being on the ballot was “not an end in itself”. Instead, he framed the election as a “difficult battle” in which the active participation of citizens would be essential to “achieve together the change our country needs”. Central to this challenge, he asserted, is the need to dismantle a fraud system he claims to have studied for nearly 15 years through observation, investigation, and direct exposure.
According to Hon Cabral Libii, the first and most obvious level of manipulation occurs directly at polling stations. He described scenarios in which genuine results such as a modest victory for opposition candidates are allegedly altered through bribery, intimidation, or coercion of polling officials. In his account, sums of 2,000 to 10,000 CFA francs are offered to opposition representatives and scrutineers in exchange for signing falsified results. When bribes are refused, threats of job loss, salary suspension, or even imprisonment are allegedly employed.
He further claimed that where falsification is not possible on-site, officials carrying official results are intercepted, coerced into signing new procès-verbaux (PV) with inflated figures for the ruling party.
While these visible manipulations are troubling, Hon Cabral Libii argued that they are not the most consequential. The “massive and sophisticated” fraud, he said, lies in what he calls the “semi-fictitious voter” method.
He alleged that during voter registration, personal data such as date of birth, ID number, and fingerprints are combined but the name is altered in multiple permutations creating entirely new, seemingly legitimate voter records. These fabricated entries are allegedly assigned to remote or fictitious polling stations often in sparsely populated areas such as Libongo, Sokambo, Hamalade or Zina controlled by a “small task force” loyal to the ruling party.
“These are real polling stations with virtual voters,” Hon Libii claimed, adding that each could deliver 100% of their votes to the ruling candidate. He estimated that up to 4,000 such polling stations , each with 500 ‘voters’, could produce a reservoir of two million votes.
The PCRN big man cited the 2020 municipal elections in Lékié Division, near Yaoundé, as an example. In his telling, fear of opposition scrutiny led to the deactivation of over 88,000 alleged fictitious voters, nearly double the total number of actual registered voters in the area at the time. Similar anomalies, he claimed, exist across multiple regions.
While acknowledging that Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) officially took biometric safeguards and anti-duplication measures, Libii alleged that many within the electoral body “are not even aware” of the deeper fraud operations.
To counter what he described as a “dramatic situation”, Libii said his campaign has developed undisclosed strategies in collaboration with other candidates, political leaders, and civil society organisations. He called for widespread citizen involvement through two key actions:
- Mass registration of polling station representatives via his campaign platform to monitor voting.
- Financial contributions of at least 2,000 CFA francs per supporter, to be collected in single or multiple payments before 11 September 2025, to fund anti-fraud operations.
Libii concluded with a rallying cry: “With your participation, we will have the true results of the election. This is about our common future. This is about changing Cameroon. This is about succeeding together.”
By Bakah Derick for Hilltopvoices Newsroom
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