Ali Bongo's daughter wants to succeed her father in 2022
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Facebook post by the daughter of Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba,
expressing her ambitions to be the country’s first female president, has left
political watchers and opposition ruffled.
Malika Bongo Ondimba Dossou, the
eldest daughter of Ali Bongo wrote that “I am mayor for two years now and I do
not want to stop because I have huge ambitions for Gabon.”
“Why not a woman President of the
Republic of Gabon in 2022?’‘ she asked rhetorically. Malika is already into
local politics because she is the mayor of the town of Akanda.
Her father who came to power in 2009
suceeded his own father Omar Bongo, after the death of former. He is due to
contest for a second term later this year. If he suceeds as is widely expected,
he would be in charge till 2023 when his daughter hopes to become president.
Political opponents are already accussing the family of
wanting to turn the presidency into an ‘inheritance.’
Malika was educated in the United States, and also in
France, where she studied international relations at the University of Sorbonne
in Paris. She has worked with UNESCO and the UN in Geneva before returning
to Gabon in 2009. She is married to Steve Dossou.
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