The president of
Gabon is facing severe attack from the opposition as information emerged that
he is not actually a Gabonese.
President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon is a Nigerian of the
ethnic Igbo stock, adopted by a former leader of the country during the Biafran
war, PMnews reports.
According to the report, a startling revelation will
soon be revealed as a court in western France on Thursday allowed a family
member of Ali Bongo Ondimba to view the birth certificate of the leader after
accusations that he lied about where he was born.
Critics have said Ali Bongo falsified his birth
certificate to hide the fact that he was adopted from another country. This
will pose as a serious threat should all the allegation be true because of the
upcoming presidential election next year.
Not only that, if the allegation is true, Ali Bongo
will be forced to relinquish his position and might lose all his wealth.
It has been revealed that Onaida Maisha Bongo Ondimba,
daughter of former president, Omar Bongo, was granted permission by a court in
Nantes to view the full documents.
He is the only one of ex-president Omar Bongo’s 54
declared heirs not to have produced the identification documents sparking
speculations that the allegation might be true.
The Gabonese constitution says one must be born
Gabonese to serve as the head of state, but French investigative journalist,
Pierre Pean alleged in a recent book that the president was actually Nigerian
and was adopted during the Biafran war in the late 1960s.
Bongo himself claims he was born in Brazzaville in
1959, former capital of French Equatorial Africa.
The Nantes civil registration centre is responsible
for all birth certificates of people born in French Equatorial Africa up to
1960 when the former colonial countries in the region gained independence to
become Gabon, Congo, Chad and the Central African Republic.
Source: PM News
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