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As Gabon prepares for a crucial election weekend, the country's capital city, Libreville, braces itself for potential unrest that has marked previous polls.
Ondo Ossa was selected to lead the alliance to challenge President Ali Bongo Ondimba just eight days before national elections, On 18 August, Albert Ondo Ossa, the 69-year-old former education minister, emerged as the consensus candidate as the surprise pick of Alternance 2023, which brings together six opposition groups. He has a few days for his campaign ahead of polling day on 26 August.
Last month, however, Gabon's electoral commission announced that any vote for a local deputy would automatically be a vote for that deputy's presidential candidate. The move was denounced by critics as favouring the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), since Ondo Ossa is not backed by any single
Unexpectedly, Albert Ondo Ossa has been designated by the main opposition platform as the "consensual" candidate against incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba
The head of the Alternance 2023 opposition grouping, said that the main opposition figures, who had previously been looking at selecting their own separate candidates, had surprised everyone by picking a "consensus" candidate. The man who will attempt to unseat Bongo is a former education minister.