In a political miracle that also defy the very laws of mathematics and reality, Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest regions have reported staggering voter turnout and overwhelming support for President Paul Biya. What makes it a miracle is the fact that ghosted towns that have fought the Biya regime have overnight been seemingly turned into to his biggest support grounds.
Some have called it the “Mathematical Miracle of Fraud”. The electoral process in the Anglophone regions has produced results that have left observers baffled. The most striking example comes from Njinikom in Boyo Division. According to official results, President Paul Biya received a resounding 2,241 votes in this locality .
In some areas like Bui, fighting that disrupted what could even come close to an election erupted. However, figures from there still show the CPDM emerging with unbelievable numbers.
These miracle votes are now being used by officials who now claim that such areas with fewer people or no people, actually have more votes that towns, and have the capacity to drown votes from large towns and cities and give Biya another mandate to extend his rule over Cameroon. However, this figure was publicly condemned by Maurice Tiibam Kube, a senior CPDM official in the Northwest Region who resigned in protest. In his resignation letter, he revealed that “fewer than 130 voters were seen at the lone polling centre in Njinikom Community Hall on election day” .
He described the official tally as a “shameless fabrication” that brings “shame and ridicule” to the people, who had largely observed a boycott .
The case in Njinikom is not isolated. A similar electoral wonder occurred in the town of Ndu. A local administrator stated that only 100 people were due to vote there. Yet, in a feat of electoral levitation, over 15,000 votes were recorded for President Biya from that very area .
This pattern appears to be widespread across the Anglophone regions. Official data shows unexpectedly high voter turnout and overwhelming support for President Biya, a stark contradiction to the “ghost towns, intimidation, and violence” reported by independent observers . In several polling stations, recorded turnout figures even exceeded the number of registered voters, a phenomenon that is statistically impossible.
These astonishing results are set against the backdrop of a nearly nine-year conflict in the Anglophone regions that has killed over 6,000 people and displaced nearly a million . The crisis, which began with protests against the marginalisation of English-speaking Cameroonians, escalated into a brutal separatist rebellion after a government crackdown .
For the millions living in the Northwest and Southwest regions, daily life is a constant struggle against fear, displacement, and uncertainty . Separatist groups had issued strong calls for an election boycott, a reminder of the 2018 polls which were enforced with “threats and violence” . Given this environment, the miraculous emergence of tens of thousands of enthusiastic Biya voters in these regions is a development that truly transcends ordinary understanding.
The electoral magic show has even caused cracks within the ruling party itself. Maurice Tiibam Kube’s resignation from the CPDM was a direct response to the fraud in Njinikom. He declared that the party, which once claimed to be a Democratic Movement, “has now become a Demolition Machine—demolishing truth, demolishing conscience, and demolishing the trust of the Cameroonian people” In a statement that has resonated with many, Kube proclaimed he would “rather stand alone with the truth than march with a crowd of impostors” . This is not a new phenomenon. As noted by analysts, under President Biya’s 43-year rule, Cameroon holds regular elections and maintains a multiparty system, but these structures have been hollowed out, their purpose repurposed to preserve a singular political dynasty . The recent events in the Anglophone regions appear to be a continuation of this long-established tradition, where elections serve less as a choice and more as a ritual to preserve Biya’s reign .
Unlike in other cases where videos have emerged of vote counting in polling stations, several areas where Biya purportedly received his miracle votes from, have no video evidence and even photo evidence of any voting or counting process. It is largely figures in excel sheets and even handwritten tallies on exercise books purported to be the vote counting process in such areas.The feat pulled by election managers and CPDM Officials in the regions make Jesus’s turning of water into wine look like a joke, given that unlike water that is a drink itself, the officials involved here made votes out of ghosted towns with little or nothing as the raw materials. If the officials were in the setting where Jesus multiplied a few loaves of bread and fish and fed thousands, they might not have even needed the initial fish and bread, they would have come up with thousands of fish and bread from thin air or maybe at best, bones and crumbs that they might have found on the ground.
