Issa Tchiroma Bakary - a prominent minister and long-time ally of President Paul Biya - has quit Cameroon's government, in the hope of ending 92-year-old Biya's four-decade grip on power in upcoming elections.
Just four months before the central African nation goes to the polls, Bakary says the Biya administration he was part of has "broken" public trust and he is switching to a rival political party.
"A country cannot exist in the service of one man," Tchiroma said on Wednesday.
While he was communications minister, Bakary notably came under fire for denying - then backtracking on his denial - that Cameroonian soldiers had killed women and children in a viral video verified by BBC Africa Eye.
His other roles during almost two decades in government include being a spokesman for the Biya government and, until his resignation on Tuesday, he was employment minister.
