
RDC: Declaration du President de la Republique du Congo, President en Exercice de la Conference Internationale sur la Region des Grand Lacs (CIRGL) – (13.01.2019)










“Kabila’s presidential guard penetrated inside my property today to prevent me from submitting my appeal at the Constitutional Court. Fear is still on their side” – Martin Fayulu (12.01.2019).
Even, as the Presidential Candidate of Lamuka, Martin Fayulu was out registering the petition against the Presidential Election of the 30th December 2018 and the Provincial Results, as he believes they should be annulled.
This is happening after CENI announced the provincial results, where Felix Tshisekedi of CACH Coalition first, and third came Emmanuel Shadari of FCC. An the petitioner came narrow second in the results announced from the Electoral Body.
That is why, we are here today, as the Presidential Candidate have delivered his petition with hopefully substantial evidence of rigging and proof of misconduct in such a legal manner. That the cooked results can be “null and void” and hold a new election. Where the results will be respected and not negotiated, even if that would hurt the pride of the Kabila Regime. Which is the ones who is running the show from the sidelines and surely, doesn’t want to be questioned.
Today, we really saw it, as the Presidential Guards visited without any forewarning the house of Fayulu. We have seen this has happen before, as the FARDC, the army has sent soldiers to the house of Moise Katumbi before he fled into exile. That is one of the running mates of Fayulu. Therefore, the pattern is already there. Kabila is using the force and soldiers to get his way.
That is why today, the use of Presidential Guards in a political game to intimidate and control the results. The good thing is that Fayulu was able to deliver the petition and the Constitutional Court now has 7 days to deliver a verdict on the matter. We will really see if there is any independent verdict, which shows the truth. Hopefully, Fayulu has the tallies of the CENCO and can show how the CENI has manipulated the results in the wished favour of the state, instead of the grandest opposition.
Now, we have to wait and see, but we know the Constitutional Court is filled with appointed people of Kabila. They are most likely making a verdict in favour of what Kabila wants. Time will tell. But who knows, right?
The verified results isn’t even announced properly, as Lamuka has started to ask to make them publicly. That is why the CENCO communiques and statements on the Results is a mismatch to the CENI Provincial Results. That is another reason, why this petition will matter, as we can then see what the CENI states, what the judges see fit and how they will argue to sustain the Provincial Results.
What we do know, is that people are trying to disenfranchise and disembark Fayulu as the Western-Puppet, because of the questioning of the current winner Tshisekedi. That is happening before the grievances is even settled. Let me be clear on my sake: I want the just winner, the one that people voted for. Not stand for and celebrated someone rigged in. That is not winning. That is cheating both the citizens and not acceptable. Any rigged leader shouldn’t be praised, but should accept that they used manipulation to get into power. It doesn’t matter if any of these three was cheating, I would have said the same on all three. I would have said the same on Shadari and Fayulu, if any of them was cheated into office. No question. Don’t even think otherwise.
With that being said. The 30th December 2018 Presidential Election is now in the Courts. Let see how this goes. But don’t expect justice or proper justification. That might offend the Don. That might hurt the pride and the tactics of Kabila. He will not take that kindly, as he has negotiated with a back-door agreement with CACH Coalition, as they would be preferred outcome, than letting the heir actually win. That what it all seems like and until that sort of speculation is debunked. It will be in the wind. Peace.

Gaborone, Botswana, 11th January, 2019: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) welcomes the release of the provisional results of the Presidential Election held under the combined Presidential, Legislative and Provincial Elections on 30 December 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
SADC congratulates the Congolese people, the Government of the DRC, all political stakeholders and the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) for conducting the elections.
SADC urges all political parties, candidates, and their supporters to exercise patience, and refrain from acts of violence, whilst the process of releasing all the final results of the elections is being conducted.
SADC further takes note of the disputes that have arisen, and encourages all concerned stakeholders to remain calm and act in a way that consolidates democracy and preserves peace.
SADC calls upon all stakeholders with concerns, including regarding the accuracy of the results, to pursue any election dispute about the provisional results, peacefully, through avenues provided by the existing national legal framework, and resolve their differences through political dialogue among all stakeholders.
SADC reaffirms its commitment to continue to assist the DRC with respect to neutralising the negative forces and other armed groups operating in Eastern DRC.
H.E. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia, and Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.
11 January 2019.


United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed for all parties to “refrain from violence” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following the announcement of the provisional results of the long-delayed presidential election.
NEW YORK, United States of America, January 11, 2019 – The vote – initially scheduled to take place two years ago – if upheld, marks the vast central African nation’s first democratic transfer of power since independence nearly 60 years ago.
According to news reports, the preliminary results announced by the independent electoral commission, known by its French acronym, CENI, which declared opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi the winner of the 30 December election, do not tally with the unofficial figures gathered by independent poll observers.
According to CENI, Mr. Tshisekedi took more than 38 per cent of the votes cast, ahead of rival presidential hopefuls Martin Fayalu and ruling party candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary. Mr. Fayalu immediately rejected the result, said agency reports.
“The Secretary-General calls on all stakeholders to refrain from violence and to channel any eventual electoral disputes through the established institutional mechanisms in line with the DRC’s Constitution and relevant electoral laws,” said Mr. Guterres in a statement released by his Spokesperson, late on Wednesday evening in New York.
In a direct call to CENI, the Constitutional Court, the Government, political parties and civil society, Mr Guterres urged them to “each live up to their responsibility in preserving stability and upholding democratic practices” in the DRC.
And as the country prepares to enter a new era without President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power since the previous incumbent, his father, was assassinated in 2001, the Secretary-General reiterated “the continued support and commitment” of the United Nations.
Together with regional actors and international partners, the UN will work “for the consolidation of peace, stability and development” in the DRC, Mr Guterres insisted, his comments coming amid an acute humanitarian crisis made worse by sporadic conflict involving dozens of armed groups in parts of the huge country.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 12.8 million people are now food insecure in DRC, including 4.3 million malnourished children, of whom 1.3 million face severe malnutrition this year.
This is despite the country’s huge natural riches, seen as a source of illicit wealth by armed groups who continue to hamper access for aid teams, which are also tackling endemic cholera – which threatens two million people – combined with a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu and Ituri.

10th January 2019, Oslo
Dear, His Excellency Felix Tshisekedi!
“Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.” – Lu Xun
I am writing you today as the Presidential Candidate of the coalition known as Common Front for Congo (CACH), which is the two party coalition Congolese Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) and Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC). The importance of that the political coordination with UNC Vital Kamerhe. We have seen that and seen how it has gone in the recent months. That is why I write to you, with haste, as it is needed at this point and time.
Honourable Sir, you have a choice, you can live on the lie, you can enjoy the perks, the position and the role as Head of State. You can do the hard one, accept it is wrong and challenge the results of the provincial announced results of Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) on the 9th January 2019. As the first results of the Presidential Elections of the 30th December 2018, which have made you the winner of it.
I know it is a lot to ask, as there are two other monitoring bodies, local ones with local observers, that has challenged these results, which makes you a winner. This being Conférence Nationale Épiscopale du Congo (CENCO) and Synergie des Missions d’Observation Citoyenne des Elections (SYMOCEL). As they have other results and another candidate than you as their winner, by their collected samples of the election.
So, as we know this lie. You know this lie and you are living on the lie. Will you able to live with the lie, is the raving power and the opportunity to be the Big-Man so enticing? That you will live on it and breathe it? That you will be accepted being remembered for trading the ballots for power.
Now, we are seeing the real you, the man who made a deal with FCC, the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) to ensure the FCC-UDPS-UNC will be a weak coalition. It will be manoeuvred and controlled, the Tshisekedi Presidency will be a Toy Story of the FCC-PPRD. A puppet of the patronage of the Joseph Kabila as accepted in the deals behind close doors.
Is this what you will be remembered for Tshisekedi. Not winning and a peaceful transition. You will be remembered for being part of a heist. You will be remembered for stealing an election as part of a deal made between closed doors. Is that what your legacy is worth? Is that what power is worth for you?
Because, the republic should be more valuable, the 3rd Republic should be the one want to preserve and ensure as a man who runs for Presidency. Not just seeking power for power sake. That is what it seems.
Hope you can manage to live with lie, as the lie will be with you and your to carry. Because you accepted it and took it. You can endure it, but that will not change it. The truth is still there and will be known. You will never have the legitimacy or the trust of the whole public. As you were never intended to be this.
You were the supposed lucky loser, the second place, but it was better to swallow the lie. It was better to take the hot-seat and be the Big-Man.
Hope it is worth it though. May your soul live it.
Best Regards
Writer of Minbane

