PRESIDENT TINUBU BREAKS SILENCE ON GABON COUP, EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER RULE OF LAW IN AFRICA
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The political climate and sociopolitical stability in Gabon have drawn the significant concern of President Bola Tinubu.
After appearing on television on Wednesday and declaring they were “putting an end to the current regime” and calling off an election that, according to official results, President Ali Bongo Ondimba won, Tinubu’s response came hours later.
In an interview with State House reporters, Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, echoed Tinubu’s stance that the rule of law and a steadfast reliance on the constitutional resolution of election issues must not be allowed to disappear in Africa.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is watching developments in Gabon very closely with deep concern for the country’s sociopolitical stability and the seeming autocratic contagion apparently spreading across different regions of our beloved continent,” he said.
“The president, as a man who has made significant personal sacrifices in his own life, in the cause of advancing and defending democracy, has all of the unwavering belief that power belongs in the hands of Africa’s great people, and not in the barrel of a loaded gun.”
Ngelale added that Tinubu affirmed that “the rule of law and a faithful recourse to constitutional resolutions and instruments of electoral dispute resolution must not at any time be allowed to perish from our great continent”.
According to him, the President is “working very closely and continuing to communicate with other heads of state in the African Union towards a comprehensive consensus on the next steps forward with respect to how the crisis in Gabon will play out into how the continent will respond to the contagion of autocracy we are seeing spread across our continent”.
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