Gabon: The CTRI takes action against the inappropriate use of Oligui Nguema’s image

Since coming to power, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has become in Gabon the target of some political parties and associations, the Committee for Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) has denounced an abusive or malicious use of his image. Implicitly, they have prohibited its use.

Seen by some as “shrewd opportunism,” and by others as a proponent of “liberation coup” and unconditional supporters of the Transitional President, in Gabon a good number of political parties and politicians have been making public appearances since the CTRI took power, using and abusing the use of the president’s general’s photo. Former presidential candidates, parties from the opposition or majority under the old regime, former soldiers of the ousted president Ali Bongo, they show their devotion to Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema through this gesture.

Among them, the former convict and member of the former ruling party, Justin Ndoundangoye, with his platform Horizon. Alongside him, another member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Mathias Otounga Ossibadjouo, with his program Regard. There is also the presidential candidate for 2023, Gervais Oniane, with a campaign for membership in his political party and support for the CTRI, or the former ruling party with its recent support for the Transitional President. The list is not exhaustive. In the country, many have made Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema their target. This “belly-calling” has already been criticized and has ended up irritating the CTRI.

The CTRI deplores, in a way, an “abusive or malicious use of the image” of the general-president and reminds that “while political parties are free to carry out their activities within the framework of the laws and regulations in force, the head of state, as guarantor of republican institutions, is above parties.” For the CTRI, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema “should not have any support other than that of the Gabonese people.” In its approach, it has called on “all political parties and politicians to adhere to this line.”

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