The Mayo Sava deputy, former president of the National Assembly, His Majesty Cavaye Yeguie Djibril passed away on May 6, 2026, at the age of 86.
His name was Cavaye Yeguie Djibril. The Cameroonian people knew him best at the highest seat of the National Assembly. The former president of the lower house of parliament passed away on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at his home in Tokombere, Mayo Sava, in the Far North region. He left less than two months after being replaced at the top of the National Assembly by Théodore Datouo on April 17.
A deputy for more than fifty years and president of the Assembly since 1992, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril influenced several generations of Cameroonians, including those from his native Mada. A member of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Rally, he fought wholeheartedly for the ruling party, of which he was one of the closest friends of the president, Paul Biya. In the north in general and the Far North in particular, he played a significant role over the years in the successive victories of the party, rightly contributing to Paul Biya’s national victory. A former member of the Cameroonian National Union and the Cameroonian Union, he was therefore one of the politicians who supported the regime over the last 40 years while remaining close to the people of his locality.
Lamido of Mada in Mayo Sava, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril also distinguished himself in traditional leadership. As a traditional chief since 1976, he remained even closer to his subjects, to whom he continuously offered teachings and advice, without failing to urge them to support his friend Biya consistently.
President of the National Assembly and lamido, nothing predicted such a high-profile and full future for the young Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, a physical education teacher after his training at the Regional Center for Physical Education of the North from 1960 to 1963. After years of teaching, he worked as an interministerial inspector of the Greater North in 1965 before entering the National Assembly in 1970.
With his death, the National Assembly has lost 23 deputies in six years.
