Former lawmaker and famend social critic, Senator Shehu Sani has said that poisoned elections are responsible for the collapse of democracy in Africa.
Sani’s assertion is approaching the heels of a coup in the Central African nation.
Media Talk Africa studies that army officers in Gabon earlier in the day introduced the seizure of energy after the third time period re-election of President Ali Bongo.
The BBC reported that high army officers made the announcement on Tuesday on nationwide Television.
The officers reportedly introduced they had been annulling the end result of Saturday’s election which the opposition had rejected and described as “fraudulent”.
However, Sani, in a put up through his social media platform X, accused the Bongo household of dominating and destroying democracy in Gabon.
He wrote, “A BBC correspondent just reported people in Gabon are “genuinely” trooping out to the streets in help of the Coup in Libreville. The Bongo household dominated and destroyed Democracy. Democracy dies in Africa when elections are poisoned.”
