Top Cameroon Court Declines Jurisdiction on Election Petitions

Cameroon’s Constitutional Council declined to rule on a series of petitions alleging irregularities in this month’s presidential elections, paving the way for the top court to announce the results of the Oct. 12 vote.

The court doesn’t have the competence to decide on seven of the eight petitions, President of the Constitutional Council Clement Atangana said in a ruling in the capital, Yaounde, on Wednesday. It referred a petition by Bertin Kisob, the imprisoned leader of the Cameroonian Party for Social Justice, to the Yaounde Court of First Instance.