2023-08-31 14:09:53
In the followingmath of the putsch which overthrew Ali Bongo au Gabonthe army chiefs committee announced on Thursday 31 August that General Brice Oligui Nguema will be sworn in as “transitional president” on Monday, September 4 before the Constitutional Court.
The new strong man of the country, who on Wednesday overthrew Ali Bongo Ondimba – barely re-elected – accusing his camp of having rigged the results of the presidential election. He also announced the “gradual establishment of the institutions of the transition” and promised that the country will respect all “its external and internal commitments”.
“The president of the transition will be sworn in before the Constitutional Court on Monday, September 4, 2023 as President of the Republic”, announced on state television Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi, spokesman for the Committee for the Transition. and the Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), which brings together all the commanders of the army.
General Oligui also “decided (…) on the gradual establishment of the institutions of the transition”, the duration of which was not specified, and “instructed all the secretaries general, ministerial cabinets, directors general and all those responsible for State services to immediately ensure the effective resumption of work and the continuity of the operation of all public services”, according to the spokesperson.
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The transitional president “wishes to reassure all donors, development partners and the creditors of the State that all measures will be taken to guarantee the respect of our country’s commitments both externally interior”, concluded Colonel Manfoumbi Manfoumbi.
Opposition calls on junta to finish counting votes
Furthermore, the main opposition platform in Gabon has asked the putschists to complete the counting of the ballots to recognize the “victory” of his candidate.
The Alternance 2023 platform also “invited the defense and security forces to the discussion in order to assess, in a patriotic and responsible framework, the situation and to find, among Gabonese, the best solution” to “allow the country to exit grew from this situation”.
“Present in front of each polling station and having watched over the transport of the ballot boxes, the security and defense forces are the first witnesses of the large victory of Professor Albert Ondo Ossa”, assured the press Mike Jocktane, spokesperson for ‘Alternation 2023.
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According to the results officially announced an hour before the coup, and which the putschists considered rigged, Albert Ondo Ossa had won 30.77% of the vote once morest 64.27% for Ali Bongo, in power for 14 years.
After warmly thanking the army, in the name of the “grateful Fatherland”, for having “standed up once morest an electoral coup” and thus “sparing” Gabon from the loss of “human lives”, Mike Jocktane l invited to “supervise” the “resumption of the process of centralization of the results” of the presidential election on Saturday which “will see the victory of Mr. Ondo Ossa at the ballot box formalized”.
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