Coup in Guinea: Condé abandons the constitution that brought him to power – Ablakwa

Member of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said the coup in Guinea is a failure of President Alpha Condé’s peers and his decision to completely abandon the constitution that brought him to power .

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa speaking Monday on PM Express explained that it was enough for the Guinean president to get a second term.

Mr. Condé, however, obtained in a referendum the mandate to run for a third term, which he won with 59.5% of the total votes cast.

For the North Tongu lawmaker, Alpha Condé’s quest for a third term was questionable.

“I read the ECOWAS observers report that said he sent up to 2.5 million ‘ghost voters’ which was not the people’s verdict in the elections.

He believes that the coup leader, Kansan Mamady Doumbouya, enjoys such legitimacy on the streets because of the way the referendum was read, the possible election results announced, as well as the reports of the observers.

Mr. Ablakwa further expressed his disappointment with the ousted president because of what he describes as his record in Guinea’s democratic struggle.

“His story is so sad because he has established himself as one of Africa’s success stories. He is one of the rare great old men to have spent his whole life in the trenches for more than 30 years, he fights for a democratic order, he paid the price himself, he was sentenced to 5 years of jail “.

“One would have thought that with this very rich history, he could become an inspiration for many opposition politicians and African democratic activists. He would have been a shining example.

Mr. Okudzeto further deplored “as a Nkrumahist, I feel very, very sad for what is happening in Guinea because you see that Guinea and Ghana have such an exceptional historical ancestral bilateral relationship”.

Guinea was the only French country to have publicly severed its relations with France thanks to the support of Ghana.

“It was Guinea and Ghana who, in 1958, formed the union of the African state to inspire other African countries.”

He added that when President Nkrumah was overthrown on February 24, 1966, President Ahmed Sékou Touré promptly invited Nkrumah to be co-president of Guinea, “So there is only one country in the world where a Ghanaian was co-chair and that is Guinea.

“Ghana’s progress must also be Guinea’s progress and Guinea’s progress must be our progress, we must not leave it behind,” he said.