Former President Goodluck Jonathan questioned the recent coup in Guinea-Bissau, blaming Umaro Embalo’s decision to launch the military takeover.
He claims that the West African nation’s recent events were a “ceremonial” coup.
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I wouldn’t refer to Guinea-Bissau as a coup because of what transpired. Not a coup, really. For lack of a better word, I would say it was a ceremonial coup because President Embalo was in charge of the event when the militaryman spoke to the assembled world.
Embalo had already announced the coup, which is odd because Embalo was announcing the coup and was speaking to media outlets all over the world while the coup took place, he claimed in an interview posted on YouTube by Symfoni on Friday.
As a person who believes in democracy, the former governor of Guinea-Bissau claimed that the events there were quite upsetting.
I’m a Nigerian who is close to 70 years old and familiar with the system’s procedures for holding heads of state in a coup. I recently served as an [an] ECOWAS mediator in Mali, and we experienced a military coup that followed.
The president who is currently in power will not be permitted to address press conferences and announce that he has been arrested because the military doesn’t take over governments. Who is being deceived?
I actually feel more pained than when I called [the former president Muhammadu] Buhari to congratulate him after I lost the election as president.
Jonathan demanded the results be made public and described the peaceful elections in Guinea-Bissau.
“The elections took place peacefully. We were field-going. The West African Elders Forum included me. We didn’t use observation teams to cover what we observed in the south, the capital, and the nearby settlements because we are typically not core observers.
Nobody, however, gave anything different during the meeting where all the heads of the observation missions and all the observers presented their accounts. The electoral officials’ conduct, the security, the party agents, the voters, and the peacefulness of the elections resulted in peaceful results counting at the polling stations.
One expected the results to be announced after a successful election.
“And Embalo announced that there was a coup, that they had taken control, and they had arrested him when they were almost finished, and we were all waiting for the outcome to be announced.”
“But based on what all the evidence suggests, no one has taken him into custody. He said, “I believe that ECOWAS and the AU must release that result,” and that’s my message to them.
On Wednesday, Guinea-Bissau military officers took complete control of the nation, suspending the country’s electoral process and closing its borders.
A command, which included members of the military’s various branches, took control of the nation’s leadership following the coup, according to General Denis N’Canha, the head of the presidential military office.
Despite the officers’ arrest, President Embalo left for Senegal and was expected to win the election on Sunday.
Source: Channels TV
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