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...

TINUBU'S SON, SEYI, REVEALS HOW PRESIDENT'S SPEECH WAS LEAKED HOURS BEFORE BROADCAST. (PHOTO).


 Tinubuā€™s Son, Seyi, Reveals How Presidentā€™s Speech Was Leaked Hours Before Broadcast


Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has expressed outrage over the leak of his fatherā€™s speech online hours before it was delivered to the nation.


The speech, which addressed the ongoing protests against the governmentā€™s leadership, was meant to be a live broadcast, but copies of it were released online beforehand.


Seyi Tinubu took to social media to vent his frustration, revealing that providing the media with an embargoed copy of a presidentā€™s address before the live broadcast is standard practice globally. However, he accused a member of the media of violating journalistic ethics and professionalism by leaking the speech before it was delivered.


ā€œIt is standard global practice anywhere in the world to provide an embargoed copy of a Presidentā€™s address to the media prior to him going live,ā€ Seyi Tinubu said on his Instagram story. ā€œSomeone in the media (outside the villa) broke the code of journalistic ethics and professionalism by releasing it before the actual address was delivered.ā€

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