{"id":77605,"date":"2025-10-27T19:19:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77605"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:19:32","slug":"92-year-old-paul-biya-wins-cameroon-presidential-election-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/92-year-old-paul-biya-wins-cameroon-presidential-election-again\/","title":{"rendered":"92-Year-Old Paul Biya Wins Cameroon Presidential Election Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s 92-year-old President, Paul Biya, has been declared winner of the 2025 presidential election, extending his over four-decade rule.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council announced on Monday that Biya secured 53.66% of the votes, defeating Issa Tchiroma, who got 35.19%. The election was held on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, Biya will continue in office for another seven years, ruling the Central African nation until 2032. He remains the world\u2019s oldest serving head of state.<\/p>\n<p>Although Tchiroma enjoyed strong backing from Cameroonian voters abroad, Biya\u2019s dominance at home gave him the edge. Tchiroma won 62.79% of votes in Europe, 66.75% in the Americas, and 68.21% in Asia and the Middle East. He also led across Africa\u2019s diaspora with 54.99%, but more than half of eligible overseas voters abstained.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Council clarified that the overall national votes determine the winner, not diaspora results.<\/p>\n<p>Biya\u2019s re-election comes amid renewed calls for political change, as critics accuse his party of suppressing opposition and manipulating elections. The government, however, insists the poll was \u201cfree and fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If he completes this term, Biya will remain in power until age 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Cameroon\u2019s 92-year-old President, Paul Biya, has been declared winner of the 2025 presidential election, extending his over four-decade rule. The Constitutional Council announced on Monday that Biya secured 53.66% of the votes, defeating Issa Tchiroma, who got 35.19%. The election was held on October 12. With this victory, Biya will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77607,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77605\/revisions\/77607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}