The MP and coordinator of the Political Alliance for Change (APC) has published a statement to challenge the content of a book written and published by Djeukam Tchameni, companion of Anicet Ekane, who is in prison.
Money is causing a stir among opposition political actors and parties six months after the presidential election of October 12, 2025. On the evening of April 20, MP Jean-Michel Nintcheu, a strong supporter of Maurice Kamto during the 2025 presidential election, published a firmly worded text. In it, he challenges the statements made by Djeukam Tchameni in his book titled ”Anicet Ekane my companion in struggle”. A work in which he pays tribute to the opponent and national president of the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy who died in detention.
These remarks essentially inform the readers of the book that Maurice Kamto, a presidential candidate, undertook financial negotiations with political parties, in this case Manidem. The goal was to obtain endorsement. His original party, the MRC, was having difficulty presenting a candidate. A chosen excerpt from the work: ”Despite the financial proposals from Kamto and Nintcheu, Anicet took a respectable position of principle”, notes the MP who vigorously denies this.
”Contrary to what Djeukam Tchameni writes, neither the APC, nor the MRC, nor President Maurice Kamto undertook any financial negotiations with any political party with a view to having it endorse the candidacy of Prof. Maurice Kamto”. The politician, a former SDF executive, specifies that the Political Alliance for Change, the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon and Maurice Kamto have maintained a constant principle: ”No transaction, no bargaining with any political party to present the candidacy of our candidate”, he explains. Nintcheu assures that this principle has resisted the ”shameful commercial approaches of certain adventurers on the political scene generally on a mission for the regime”.
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Thus, the APC coordinator attempts to attribute financial aspirations to other political parties and actors in the particular interest of the regime. This, for the same electoral process, refers to possible financial transactions between candidates and borrowed parties for endorsements. However, such statements or accusations do not only target opposition actors among themselves, but also target the ruling party, often accused of paying large sums of money to opponents during elections to favor the retention of power by its executives and activists.
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