By Adesina Soyooye
Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s former President is trapped in Guinea Bissau, the West African Country which Military Brass has just carried out a Coup D’etat and arrested the President and other top Government officials. Also, arrested are top officials of the opposition.
Jonathan, alongside other hundreds of foreigners went to the beleaguered Country to monitor its Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
He led members of the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) which founder he is.
On arrival, he had posted on social media: “We arrived in Bissau this evening as members of the West African Elders Forum (WAEF) Election Mission ahead of Guinea Bissau’s Presidential and Parliamentary polls scheduled for November 23, 2025. We wish the people of Guinea Bissau a peaceful, inclusive and transparent elections.”
However, the election ran into troubled waters when both President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and the opposition candidate, Fernando Dias, each declared himself winner.
That offered a group of soldiers, which identified itself as “High Military Command for the Restoration of Order”, an opportunity to take over the Government, suspend further action on the elections which results were being expected for release, “until further notice”.
President Embalo told a French Broadcaster in a phone exchange that he has been deposed. “I have been deposed and currently at the general staff quarters.”
A curfew is in place and all the borders are closed – air, sea, land.
Denis N’Canha, the Army Officer who led the Coup, is the head if the Presidential Guard.
Hundreds of Election Foreign Observers who rushed to the Airport to leave the country are currently stranded at the Airport.
The toothless ECOWAS has strongly condemned the military intervention.
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