Akufo Addo mediates first ever meeting between Gnassingbé and opposition

President Akufo Addo will today, Monday host and facilitate a dialogue between the Togolese government and all opposition parties in Togo to find a lasting solution to the political unrest in that country.

The meeting is a follow up to several private meetings President Akufo Addo has had with all the parties since assuming office as President of Ghana.

It will be the first formal dialogue between the members of the fourteen opposition parties and incumbent President.

According to the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, the President will also engage with Civil Society Organizations as to how they can also join the course to find common grounds amongst the political parties.

Since the advent of multiparty politics in the early 1990s, some 15 dialogues and talks have been held in Lomé, the Togolese capital without ever leading to a political transformation.

Togo protest

– Protests have claimed at least 16 lives

The reform of presidential mandates and the voting system, already provided for in the 2006 Comprehensive Political Agreement has never been carried out, despite the fact that it was meant to appease a country frustrated by the violence following the election of Faure Gnassingbé.

Faure Gnassingbé‘s party has reiterated in the local media that it would be “out of the question” to discuss the immediate departure of the Head of State or a commitment on his part to leave power.

 

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