At the question
ing a colleague to know if President Senghor had influenced his decision to leave power, Germaine Ahidjo replied "Not at all. Senghor Ahidjo had even sent his chief of staff, Moustapha Niasse, to tell him not to resign, explaining that Cameroon is not the Sénégal.Ajoutant that Cameroon was still needed " . Germaine Ahidjo even had to clarify in an interview in April 2010 "Mutations" that her husband had also intends to resign as both President of the Republic and the Presidency of the Cameroon National Union (UNC, the former single party): " He had resigned from all his functions, including those of the party. But the night before the circular is sent to the radio to make public his resignation, there's the Ousmane Mey Governor of Northern Province and a delegation of the political bureau of the party that came to see. Ahidjo first refused to receive them. He did not want to see anybody. I told him "But get them." And he told me "I know what they want." Continuing his testimony, Germaine Ahidjo adds that "Indeed, several ministers were trying to convince him to just take a vacation to rest and resume business later" . But that it was no question about it. " I insisted that he receives them." "So he agreed and members of the delegation explained that it was better to avoid the chaos, at least it keeps control of the party, the time that Cameroonians get used to his departure" .
"I do not know exactly what arguments they put forward to convince him, maybe the idea of a possible chaos, he finally agreed to remain as head of the party. And so he phoned to tell him that Biya had received the party comrades and he thinks it is better we wait first for his resignation from the party " . we can finally understand why Thursday, November 4, 1982, the newspaper 20 hours began with several tens of minutes late: "In the spirit of Ahidjo, it was considered an extraordinary congress to pass the responsibilities of the party Biya. But during all this time on the radio, there was the music that precedes who played the newspaper and it lasted long. For the meantime it was necessary to rewrite the statement to remove the item regarding his resignation from the chairmanship of the party " said Germaine Ahidjo.
After the resignation of President Ahmadou Ahidjo, the former presidential couple had traveled to France: "Ahidjo was tired, overworked and had memory loss. He was hospitalized in the clinic. I remember it was the day of the finals at Roland Garos with Yannick Noah. He told me "even if you wake me I sleep, I do not want to miss this match " .
"I do not know exactly what arguments they put forward to convince him, maybe the idea of a possible chaos, he finally agreed to remain as head of the party. And so he phoned to tell him that Biya had received the party comrades and he thinks it is better we wait first for his resignation from the party " . we can finally understand why Thursday, November 4, 1982, the newspaper 20 hours began with several tens of minutes late: "In the spirit of Ahidjo, it was considered an extraordinary congress to pass the responsibilities of the party Biya. But during all this time on the radio, there was the music that precedes who played the newspaper and it lasted long. For the meantime it was necessary to rewrite the statement to remove the item regarding his resignation from the chairmanship of the party " said Germaine Ahidjo.
After the resignation of President Ahmadou Ahidjo, the former presidential couple had traveled to France: "Ahidjo was tired, overworked and had memory loss. He was hospitalized in the clinic. I remember it was the day of the finals at Roland Garos with Yannick Noah. He told me "even if you wake me I sleep, I do not want to miss this match " .
"That day, an emissary from Biya, an attache of the presidency, arrived with a letter to Ahidjo. In this letter, Biya did not even care about his health . Everything he said was: " You told me you would give me the party in 6 or 8 months. I think the time has come " .
"Ahidjo was shocked" . He felt that his planned return to Cameroon in September that year (in 1983, note), he would sell the chair at during an extraordinary congress. He said he does not give the party (...) "There is no urgency . He stated that he would return in September and they would see the facilities for transfer. And meanwhile, Biya had full powers. "It was I who posted the letter. As soon as they received the letter, so we took out the plots, all sorts of things (...) Ahidjo ruled the country with people he thought he knew, but he knew them very badly " , concluded Germaine Ahidjo.
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