This has boosted the confidence of the leading opposition candidate Agbéyomé Kodjo who had already challenged the outcome and claimed victory for himself...
Most vocal is the ebullient former Prime Minister Agbéyomé Kodjo who was briefly arrested during the June demonstrations and again last month (AC Vol 43 No 14 Last of the dinosaurs)...
One of those arrested was former Prime Minister Gabriel Agbéyomé Kodjo who was released only after after powerful international friends interceded...
The leader of the Comité d'Action pour le Renouveau was released in March 2002 after spending six months in gaol for defaming the then Premier Agbéyomé Kodjo who was sacked in June...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Sacked Prime Minister Agbéyomé Kodjo is in Paris deepening links with the diaspora while former National Assembly President Dahuku Péré among the first heavyweights from the ruling Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais to come out against Eyadéma in recent years is agitating in Lomé and there are signs of discontent in the top ranks of the army...
Prime Minister Agbéyomé Kodjo was sacked on 27 June in a move Eyadéma tried to explain as preparing for long awaited parliamentary elections...
At the 1994 congress young reformists behind Agbéyomé Kodjo created somemomentum for change even suggesting that Eyadéma should step down from the onerous task of leading the party...
