{"id":211136,"date":"2025-10-24T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tchiroma-declares-self-winner-of-presidential-poll-urges-peaceful-transition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:20:05","slug":"cameroon-tchiroma-declares-self-winner-of-presidential-poll-urges-peaceful-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tchiroma-declares-self-winner-of-presidential-poll-urges-peaceful-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Tchiroma Declares Self Winner of Presidential Poll, Urges Peaceful Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has declared himself the winner of the country&#8217;s presidential election, claiming a decisive victory and calling on the incumbent president to concede and initiate a peaceful transition of power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a nationwide address on Wednesday, Tchiroma said his campaign had compiled reports from polling stations and verified results through field representatives, concluding that he had secured &#8220;more than 50% of the valid votes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He described the outcome as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240349.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has declared himself the winner of the country&#8217;s presidential election, claiming a decisive victory and calling on the incumbent president to concede and initiate a peaceful transition of power. In a nationwide address on Wednesday, Tchiroma said his campaign had compiled reports from polling stations and verified results through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,7030,257,6385,7517,6438,254,52672,9711,6810,7361],"class_list":["post-211136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-declares","tag-news","tag-peaceful","tag-poll","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tchiroma","tag-transition","tag-urges","tag-winner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}