Gabon’s interim president Brice Oligui Nguema will run for the presidential elections due next month in the oil rich country.
Oligui Nguema was appointed as the interim president of Gabon after he led a coup that overthrew president Ali Bongo in August 2023.
His nomination for the presidential election was approved by the Gabon’s Constitutional Court along with seven other contenders.
Nguema’s main rival is tipped to be Bongo’s last prime minister Alain Claude Billie By Nze, 57, who is running as an independent candidate.
Other candidates approved by the court on Friday include Stephane Germain Iloko Boussengui, a former member of Bongo’s Gabonese Democratic Party who has formed his own movement, the “large rainbow gathering”, and tax inspector Joseph Lapensee Essigone.