Remy Nama, 69, has taken the presidency of Cameroon's Constitutional Council, 12 days after the death of Clement Atangana on 4 October 2026. The presidency issued Decree No. 2026/334 on 16 October 2026 appointing Nama, and on the same day issued Decree No. 2026/333 naming Abdoullaye Daouda as a member of the council. Nama's first public statement, on 17 October 2026, thanked President Paul Biya and described the appointment as "une expression de gratitude à l'endroit du chef de l'État".
The 1996 constitution as amended in 2008 gives the president of the republic the power to appoint the council's president for a single six-year term. The council rules on presidential, parliamentary and senatorial elections and on the regularity of referendums. It has 11 members: three named by the president of the republic, three by the president of the National Assembly, three by the president of the Senate, and two former presidents of the republic who sit ex officio. Its president casts the deciding vote when the council is split. Nama is a former president of the National Assembly and a member of the CPDM, the president's party.
The brief of 16 October 2026 said the two decrees completed the council's 11 seats and named the publication of the electoral calendar for the 2027 legislative and municipal elections as the indicator that would determine the first disputes the council handles. That calendar has not been published. The council has not announced its first session under Nama. The brief also said the council's rules of procedure require its president to convene sessions and set the agenda, so the body can now be convened. That remains the case: the rules have not changed, and the power to call the council into session sits with Nama.
What has changed is that the officeholder has put his own account of the appointment on the record. Nama's statement frames the appointment as a personal debt to the head of state. That is the first public description of the relationship between the new president of the council and the presidency from the man himself. It does not address the council's schedule for handling pre-electoral disputes, such as challenges to the electoral register or to the eligibility of candidates, and no such schedule has been published.
The indicator named in the brief of 16 October 2026 now shows nothing yet. The electoral calendar has not appeared, so the first disputes the council will face under Nama remain unknown. A second indicator, the council's own announcement of its first session, has also not been met. Nama's term runs six years from the decree of 16 October 2026. The next hard fact will be the publication of the electoral calendar or the convening of the council's first session, whichever comes first.