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Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 January 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice-president in his ...
The second President of Gabon, Omar Bongo, died in Spain on 8 June 2009, after having suffered from colorectal cancer. A month of mourning [1] and state funeral, spanning 11 to 18 June, followed. After Bongo's death his coffin was flown from Barcelona to Libreville on 11 June.
The Bongo family is a Gabonese and Congolese political family of Teke ethnicity. [1] Three Bongo family members ( Omar Bongo , Ali Bongo , and Brice Oligui Nguema ) have been presidents of Gabon , ruling the country from 1967 until the present.
In 1987, Albert Ondo Ossa passed the competitive examination for the faculties of economics and management in Dakar (Senegal). He then went through all the university grades at the Omar Bongo Ondimba University to become from 1988 to 1990 head of the economics department and then in 1990 dean of the faculty of law and economics.
PDG leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate in the presidential election, and was elected unopposed. [1] In the National Assembly election the PDG put forward a list of 70 candidates for the 70 seats in the expanded Assembly. [2] Voter turnout was allegedly 97.8%. [3]
PDG leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed. [1] Voter turnout was reported to be 99.9%. [2] These were the last one-party elections in Gabon, as the country returned to multi-party democracy in 1990.
Incumbent President Omar Bongo, in power since 1967, sought a five-year term against twelve other candidates. According to official results Bongo won in the first round with 51.2% of the vote. However, the main opposition leader, Paul Mba Abessole, alleged fraud, claimed victory, and threatened to form a rival government.
Ndouna Dépénaud was assassinated on July 19, 1977, near his home in the Akébé neighborhood in Libreville. According to Pierre Péan, Ndouna Dépénaud had reportedly married Josephine Kama Dabany, also known as Patience Dabany, in a customary union, who later became the wife of Omar Bongo, President of Gabon.