According to The Guardian, A group of senior military officers in Gabon on Wednesday announced on state television that they were seizing power to overturn the results of Saturday’s election in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, 64, was re-elected for a third term, in an election the opposition described as a ‘fraud orchestrated’ by the ruling party.
The officers introduced themselves as members of the Committee of Transition and the Restoration of Institutions.
In the televised announcement they said the 26 August election lacks transparency and credibility “Today the country is undergoing a severe institutional, political, economic, and social crisis,”
“In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an end to the current regime.”
President Bongo’s overthrow would end his family’s 56-year hold on power in Gabon. The Bongo family, one of Africa’s most powerful dynasties, has been in power since 1967.
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