Gabon Coup: Shehu Sani ties increasing coup in Africa to failed election

 

 

Former Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, has blamed failed elections for the increasing coup in Africa.

 

His comment follows the latest coup that ousted president Ali Bongo of Gabon.

 

Mr Sani in a tweet suggested that the family of the ousted Gabon president destroyed democracy in the country.

 

According to the former Kaduna senator, Gabonese citizens were celebrating the military takeover as against reactions of west African leaders 

 

 Mr Sani said democracy will be dead when election are poisoned.

 

“A BBC correspondent just reported people in Gabon are ‘genuinely’ trooping out to the streets in support of the Coup in Libreville.The Bongo family dominated and destroyed Democracy.Democracy dies in Africa when elections are poisoned,” Mr Sani wrote

 

PoliticsNow had earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday expressed worries over the rising wave of coup across African nations.

 

The president while condemning the coup expressed readiness to work with other African leaders to defend democracy in the continent