Sema Fonkem 13/04/2024

50 years old Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has been chosen by 90% of Gabonese citizens to lead their country into a better future.

Nguema began ruling Gabon in 2023 after he staged a coup that ousted Ali Bongo and brought an end to decades of the Bongo political dynasty. The ministry of interior affairs confirmed that Nguema won the 2025 presidential elections by a landslide victory of 90.35%. This means that out of 2.5million Gabonese citizens, 2250,000 voted for Nguema throughout 3000 polling stations.

Before the 2023 coup, The Bongo family ruled Gabon for 50 years. This presidential elections is a very crucial as it is the first time the Gabonese are willingly giving their trust to leader after a long time. Much is expected from Nguema to bring smiles to the faces and homes of approximately 2.3million citizens who leave in abject poverty despite Gabon’s riches in oil, gold, manganese, diamond and other mineral resources.

Even though the former Prime Minister of Gabon and opposition leader of the Gabonese Democratic Party, Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze complained that Nguema used state resources to finance his campaign and that unused voters cards may have been used for elections fraud, all polling stations were observed to have operated under transparent and satisfactory conditions.

Nguema will be serving as president under a 7-year mandate, a period which the majority voters believe that he will be able to use all available avenues to do better than his predecessors.