The French newspaper Le Monde has released the original birth certificate of the Gabonese president, Ali Bongo, to clear suspicions that he may be of Nigerian descent.
This controversy began when a French journalist, Pierre Pean, wrote that Ali Bongo wasn’t truly descended from the late Omar Bongo.
Sources say that the Le Monde newspaper acquired the birth certificate from a Former French officer in COngo during the colonial era.
The opposition have called the certificate a fake designed to forestall the uprising already being launched against the ‘foreigner’ president running their nation.
President Ali Bongo, on his part, has filed a complaint in France against Pierre Pean for his book where he wrote that he (Ali Bongo) is of Nigerian heritage.
Source: allafrica.com
