Gabonese President,Omar Bongo,is reportedly an Igbo man

Indications have emerged that the President of
Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba is a Nigerian of the
ethnic Igbo stock. It is said that he was adopted
during the Biafran war by his father, Omar
Bongo who handed over to him as President.
This development may soon be confirmed as a
court in western France on Thursday allowed a
family member of Omar Bongo to view the birth
certificate of Ali Bongo following accusations
that he lied about his country of origin.
The Gabonese constitution demands that one
must be born Gabonese to serve as the head of
state, but French investigative journalist, Pierre
Pean alleged in a recent book that the President
was actually a Nigerian and was adopted during
the Biafran war in the late 1960s.
The court in Nantes allowed 25-year-old Onaida
Maisha Bongo Ondimba, a daughter of former
president Omar Bongo, to view the documents in
full, which her lawyer, Eric Moutet hailed the
decision as “enormous”, though “diplomatically
complex”.
Ali Bongo is the only one of ex-president Omar
Bongo’s 54 declared heirs not to have produced
the identification documents. He claims he was
born in Brazzaville in 1959, former capital of
French Equatorial Africa.
The Nantes civil registration centre is
responsible for all birth certificates of people
born in French Equatorial Africa up to 1960,
when the former colonial countries in the region
gained independence to become Gabon, Congo,
Chad and the Central African Republic.

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