

Burkina Faso: Primature – Porte-Parole du Gouvernement – Communique (28.07.2025)
















Professor Maurice Kamto is now barred from entering the race for the Presidency this October 2025. The regime and the authorities has blocked his candidacy and done so on technicalities. We know why they did so and intentionally too. This is the game and they are stalling him.
If Kamto takes this to Court and the Constitutional Court. The petition will be a prolonged process and he won’t relent, but don’t expect much of it. The paper trail might look nice and make things legal, but he won’t have the time or the ability to run on schedule. That’s the issue here and ELECAM will find other excuses to bar him next. So, this gig is telling now.
The party and the candidate better find other ways of doing it now. They now know what they are up against. The regime and the authorities are now in their way. These are now used to ensure another term for Paul Biya and that’s it. The other candidates won’t harm him or even be a treat to his candidacy. They are just pawns and people who happens to be eligible to be on the ballot. That’s because these are not concerning Biya or anyone in the government. Therefore, this election is predetermined and everyone knows it.
Kamto has choices to make now. Shall he make the rational ones or dare now. Will he risk it all or will he be silenced?
Because, the legal route is a diversion and a way of stalling him. They are making it impossible for him to run and to be a candidate. His party will use resources and time to fight a case, meanwhile the elections goes on like nothing. There is little to gain there… and he should know it too.
I don’t see Kamto as a revolutionary and someone who dares to go on the barricades. Neither a voice and a father of a revolution. He lacks the charisma, the ethos of such and the sort of personality to exhaust the pressure, the costs and the pains of doing such. That’s not so say his not a fit or capable leader, but his not built for those sorts of struggles. Neither does it seem that he wants to go that way.
The more likely scenario if everything goes sour and he has no Plan B. He will end up in exile and await another return in a few years. Because, that’s more peaceful and less painful for the man. Regardless, I might be wrong and I accept that. However, this here could have been foreseen and no one should be shocked.
As Biya and his party doesn’t play and they don’t want serious competition. Peace.

