Gabon’s former president Ali Bongo, who was ousted in a putsch, is free to leave the country and travel abroad the leader of the coup that toppled him said on Wednesday.
“He has freedom of movement… and can travel abroad if he wishes,” general Brice Oligui Nguema said in a statement read on state television.
Bongo, in power for 14 years, had been under house arrest since the military coup of August 30, carried out without bloodshed less than an hour after his party proclaimed his re-election in a vote described as fraudulent by the putschists.
“Given his state of health, the former President of the Republic Ali Bongo Ondimba has freedom of movement. He can travel abroad if he wishes to carry out his medical checks,” Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi said, reading a press release signed by Oligui took his oath as transitional president on Monday.
Bongo suffered a serious stroke in October 2018 which left him physically impaired, with particular difficulty moving his right leg and arm. (AFP)
The newly elected President of the Adekunle Ajasin University Students’ Union, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Folagbade…
Party leaders, stakeholders and faithfuls across MOBA, IDO OSI and ILEJEMEJE Local Government Areas have…
... Affirms APC Elected Council Chairmen, Councillors' Reinstatement The Ruling Accord in Osun State under…
News Update THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has cleared 48 aspirants to participate in the…
News Update Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Mustapha Abdullahi,…
The leadership of the Osun Online Publishers Association (OOPA) on Tuesday paid a courtesy visit…