Perhaps sensing this SDF leader John Fru Ndi made a statesmanlike call on 17 June for the SDF to go to the National Assembly to work peacefully for electoral and constitutional reform (his party was in danger of tearing itself apart over a proposed parliamentrary boycott)...
Biya can still rely on the support of Paris and the indifference of Washington and London to sustain a flawed victory over his nearest rival John Fru Ndi head of the Social Democratic Front Yet this time Biya does face a challenger from his own Beti people Ayissi Mvodo...
Many international observers (especially from the United States) still believe that John Fru Ndi's Social Democratic Front really won the 1992 elections; those doubts have haunted Biya over the past four years...