The immediate former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila is in the process of appointing new leaders for his party in what seems like preparation for return to Kinshasa.
Kabila is reported to be living mostly in Kenya as well as Belgium after departing from DR Congo shortly after the country got a new President.
Now latest updates from DRC indicate that the retired Head of State could be setting up a landing pad as he mulls to return into the country politics, now that the troubled President Felix Tshisekedi faces great opposition from the advancing armed rebel forces.
With the ongoing overhaul in his PPRD political party, the Former Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila could be edging closer to making a ceremonious return to active politics in Kinshasa.
Kabila has just appointed a set of new leaders in critical positions for his party, the former ruling People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD).
Aubin Minaku, the former Speaker of the National Assembly under Kabila, has just been appointed to serve in the position of Vice-President of the PPRD.
Minaku’s is said to be a strategic start to Kabila’s return as the former will now act as president to boost the political presence of the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy.
Kabila has maintained an eloquent silence while out of the country since leaving power in 2019 even after his family was recently attacked by President Félix Tshisekedi who accuses him of being the main instigator of war in the eastern DR Congo.
However, the commander of M23 Rebel forces, Corneille Nangaa has refuted claims that Kabila was the catalyst behind their movement.
On the other hand, Nangaa who was an electoral commissioner in DR Congo’s polls Claims Tshisekedi rigged the polls.
The Alliance Fleuve du Congo (AFC) and March 23 rebel-coalition leader, Corneille Nangaa says he considers Félix Tshisekedi an illegitimate president who has turned the DR Congo into a dictatorship.
In an interview with Belgian journalist Colette Braeckman, Nangaa has revealed that Tshisekedi was not legitimately elected as president in the elections which had shambolic figures.
“Mr. Felix Tshisekedi is illegitimate and everyone knows it. He claims to have got 74 percent of the votes during the last elections but these figures were fabricated. The real winner is known,” Nangaa said.
Nangaa said Tshisekedi had created a dictatorship style of governance to eliminate his opponents such as former republican president Joseph Kabila and leading opposition leader Moïse Katumbi.
“Several political figures are currently incarcerated in regime prisons for political reasons. The country is mired in a regime of terror where justice is instrumentalized for irregular convictions,” he said.
He also accused Tshisekedi, a Kasai, of having a tribalistic order to exterminate the people of Katanga and Ituri regions.