{"id":7645,"date":"2026-04-14T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1307007.us31.myftpupload.com\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:39:17","slug":"false-cameroon-president-paul-biya-did-not-appoint-son-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/false-cameroon-president-paul-biya-did-not-appoint-son-as-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"False! Cameroon president Paul Biya did not appoint son as Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Viral posts online and publications by some media portals (Arise TV Nigeria<\/a>, Citizen Tanzania<\/a> and GhanaWeb<\/a>) claimed that Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, appointed his son, Franck, as new Vice President on April 4, 2026; the same day the Central African country’s Parliament voted to restore the position of Vice President, a post that was scrapped in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The viral claims cited a supposed decree signed by President Biya which appointed Franck to three separate roles – Vice President, Head of the Armed Forces and Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FactSpace West Africa found that the claim was False and the supposed decree was fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. The Vice President Bill has yet to be signed into law after passage, so an appointment to the role is impractical.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    1. There is no publication of a decree appointing neither Franck nor anyone as Vice President – at least per checks on the presidential and government social media pages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
        \n
      1. No Cameroonian or international news website has reported about this appointment – because it is nonexistent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
          \n
        1. Credible news outlets and Cameroonian activists on X have roundly dismissed the viral news as fake.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          You can read details of our report via this link: “FACT-CHECK: Cameroon president did not appoint his son as Vice President<\/strong><\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          \nhttps:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@factspacewa\/video\/7628287586095615252\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Viral posts online and publications by some media portals (Arise TV Nigeria, Citizen Tanzania and GhanaWeb) claimed that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50],"tags":[298,299,120,198],"coauthors":[472],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","tag-paul-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-parliament","tag-vice-president"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":41,"label":"Featured"},{"value":50,"label":"Politics"}],"post_tag":[{"value":298,"label":"Paul Biya"},{"value":299,"label":"Cameroon"},{"value":120,"label":"parliament"},{"value":198,"label":"vice president"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Paul-Franck-Biya-Cameroon.jpeg",746,389,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Rabiu Alhassan","author_link":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/author\/rabiu-alhassan\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":41,"name":"Featured","slug":"featured","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Featured posts","parent":0,"count":144,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":41,"category_count":144,"category_description":"Featured posts","cat_name":"Featured","category_nicename":"featured","category_parent":0},{"term_id":50,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":50,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":19,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":50,"category_count":19,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Politics","category_nicename":"politics","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":298,"name":"Paul Biya","slug":"paul-biya","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":298,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":299,"name":"Cameroon","slug":"cameroon","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":299,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":120,"name":"parliament","slug":"parliament","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":120,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":198,"name":"vice president","slug":"vice-president","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":198,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enspirefx.com\/royale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}