GABON'S LEADER NGUEMA ELECTED PRESIDENT WITH 90.35% OF VOTE, INTERIOR MINISTER SAYS

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 Gabon's leader Nguema elected president with 90.35% of vote, interior minister says Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country's interior minister said on Sunday, Reuters reported. The result cements Nguema's grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a century of rule by the Bongo family in Gabon, an oil producer with a population of around 2.5 million. Nguema's most prominent opponent in the eight-candidate race was Alain Claude Bilie By Nze, who was serving as prime minister under President Ali Bongo at the time of the coup. Nze, 57, finished with 3.02% of the total, according to the provisional results announced. Campaigning in a baseball cap bearing his "We Build Together" slogan, Nguema pitched himself as a change agent cracking down on the corrupt old guard. He vowed to diversify the oil-re...

GUNMEN KIDNAP BENUE COMMISSIONER. (PHOTO)


Gunmen kidnap Benue Commissioner

Gunmen yet-to-be identified have abducted Benue State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Matthew Abo

DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred on Sunday night at about 10pm when the armed men invaded the Commissionerā€™s residence in Zaki-Biam, headquarters of Ukum Local Government Area of the state.

According to an eye-witness, the gunmen who invaded the area on four motorcycles, forcefully entered the commissionerā€™s house shooting sporadically.

The assailants ordered everyone in the house, including the Commissionerā€˜s wife and children to lie face down, after which they whisked him away to an unknown destination.


 

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