Gabon's opposition leader accused the family of the recently ousted president of engineering his removal from power in order to retain their control in the oil-rich Central African nation.
Speaking to French media outlet TV5 Monde Thursday, Albert Ondo Ossa said the junta who ousted Gabon's president on Wednesday did not engage in a coup but rather a "palace revolution" in order to continue their family's reign.
"The Bongos have decided to put Ali Bongo aside and continue their system," said Ossa in his interview with TV5 Monde. "The Gabonese people took to the streets at night to celebrate the departure of Bongo, but I'm saying that it's not the Bongo family that departed. A Bongo took over from a Bongo," he said.
However, Bongo's family has been accused of endemic corruption and not letting the country's oil wealth trickle down to the population of some 2 million people.
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