Parliament:

Biya to introduce vice presidency in Nov. session! 
 

· Anglophone likely to become   constitutional successor

·  PM post to go North

By Sylvanus Ezieh Acha’ana & Amindeh Blaise Atabong in Yaounde

President Biya has at long last given in to pressure to ensure a peaceful transition in Cameroon. To this effect, government, The Guardian Post has been reliably hinted, has already finalized the bill for the re-introduction of the post of vice president.

The bill is expected to be tabled for ‘debate’ and adoption this November session of parliament, The Guardian Post further learnt.  

Already, speculations are heightened within the political class in the nation’s political capital that should the post of vice president be introduced, it should obviously and naturally go to an Anglophone who becomes the constitutional successor in case of vacancy.

Political analysts say the post of vice president, once created, can only go to Anglophones as was agreed during the Foumban arrangement. It was thanks to that arrangement, they say, that the late John Ngu Foncha was appointed vice president while Amadou Ahidjo was president.

It goes without saying that should an Anglophone becomes vice president, the post of prime minister would become that of Northerners who for a long time have been mounting pressure to have it. Should that be the case, both Hon. Cavaye Yegue Djibril and Philemon Yang Yunji would forfeit their juicy positions as national assembly speaker and prime minister respectively.

If things were to go the way it is being planned in the new geo-political arrangement, Betis would hold the office of the president of the republic, Anglophones would occupy the post of the vice president, Northerners would take back the Star Building job, Bamelikes would retain the senate presidency while the national assembly speaker post could go to the Littoral region.

 Sources have also hinted that a new government would only be announced after the bill on the vice presidency would have gone through parliament. It is the putting in place of the vice presidency position, The Guardian Post gathered, that has been delaying the formation of a new government.