{"id":107379,"date":"2023-08-30T16:25:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107379"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T15:25:46","slug":"gabon-expect-more-military-takeovers-in-africa-femi-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gabon-expect-more-military-takeovers-in-africa-femi-fani-kayode\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon: Expect more military takeovers in Africa \u2013 Femi Fani Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, in his reaction to the coup in Gabon, has predicted that there would be more military takeovers in French-speaking West and Central African countries in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reports that some army officers Wednesday toppled the democratic government of President Ali Bongo, who has been in power since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Bongo was announced the winner of the presidential\u00a0election in the West African country on Saturday, having fulfilled a two-thirds victory at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode in a post on his X page said he was not surprised about the coup.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cBREAKING NEWS: Sadly another coup has taken place in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time it is in the nation of Gabon where President Ali Bongo (pictured below), who together with his late father Alhaji Bongo, had been in power for the last 53 years has been toppled and removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears that the warning I gave in my last essay, titled, \u2018Does Killing Nigerien Babies Bring Glory To Our Name?\u2019, was prophetic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not surprised that this has happened and frankly we should expect more coups in the\u00a0 Francophone countries of West and Central Africa for the reasons I stated in that essay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder whether ECOWAS or the African Union will threaten to invade Gabon as well?\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, in his reaction to the coup in Gabon, has predicted that there would be more military takeovers in French-speaking West and Central African countries in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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