With both of them from the North of Cameroon, president of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, and Deputy Prime Minister Amadou Ali are at war over the succession of Paul Biya.

Recently, another of their silent war erupted in the North, about 1,000 km from Maroua, under oars of the Republic at Yaoundé. This unfortunately occured in broad daylight on June 11, when the President of the National Assembly, Cavaye Yeguie Djibril (age 74), pointed a finger at Amadou Ali on the occasion of the opening of Parliament, as an accomplice of Boko Haram. He noted this in a statement saying, "the gravediggers of the fatherland" who "are among us".

Everybody understood that he targeted without naming his Deputy Prime Minister Amadou Ali (age 71), a Kanouri which some would like to believe that has ties to the jihadist Group. Between these two barons of the party in power, derived from the same Department of Mayo-Sava (the most affected by the incursions of Boko Haram), it is clearly a war of position.

Ali seeks the office of Prime Minister, or even Vice President if it should be created as part of a possible succession of Paul Biya. But Cavaye knows that such a rival promotion would mean for him defenestration.