Highways:
Before I curse them, what's their economic value compared to Nigeria?



Under APC, Nigeria appears to be worse

Nigeria GDP 2022 December estimate = 445 bn USD

Eq / Guinea GDP 2022 Dec. estimate = 11.6 bn USD

SOURCE:
www.tradingeconomics.com

StrongestGuy:


I tell you!

What kind of news is this? After 43 years?

What was the point of wasting the taxpayers' money to conduct an apparently sham election?

It is possible that the elections were also a means of siphoning money...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geqr4Yh945w

Pot promising to call kettle black. Very laughable. However, we thank God for the emergency of HE Peter Obi. One way to Aso rock!

43 years? That is incredible!

Shouldn't the man have gotten fed up and resigned by now?

owobokiri:
This countrys enermous Oil resources is controlled by Western companies that take almost 90% of the earnings through all sorts of spurious "agreements" with this dictator and his family. Otherwise Equitorial Guinea has all takes to be the new Kuwait of Africa.. It's is the same with Chad where the meagerly Oil earnings have been hyjacked by the Western countries for years while the people suffer.

The US foreign policy goal of making sure that African countries do not enjoy their resources while helping favourable despots to stay in power perennially in other to protect this ideology, is the main reaso why people like Nguema an his family are still in power raping and pillaging these countries all these years. This is no !ore neocolonialism or even imperialism. This is barefaced racism couched in all sorts of foreign policy tools.

Stop blaming the WEST, blame your greedy African leaders

NaijaSamurai:
43 years? That is incredible!

Shouldn't the man have gotten fed up and resigned by now?

Fed up kẹ̀?

Such leaders don't ever get fed up. They would rather die on that seat.

owobokiri:
This countrys enermous Oil resources is controlled by Western companies that take almost 90% of the earnings through all sorts of spurious "agreements" with this dictator and his family. Otherwise Equitorial Guinea has all takes to be the new Kuwait of Africa.. It's is the same with Chad where the meagerly Oil earnings have been hyjacked by the Western countries for years while the people suffer.

The US foreign policy goal of making sure that African countries do not enjoy their resources while helping favourable despots to stay in power perennially in other to protect this ideology, is the main reaso why people like Nguema an his family are still in power raping and pillaging these countries all these years. This is no !ore neocolonialism or even imperialism. This is barefaced racism couched in all sorts of foreign policy tools.

Can't the people stand up for themselves must we continue accusing the West in every thing

Make una no vote right in NIGERIA come next year tomorrow una go begin wail

Healthquest:
No different from UK where the kings are the owner of the country elected by nobody

U don't compare UK to shithole countries

What the queen/king enjoy is privilege not absolute power

DeFuturePresido:


It is possible that the elections were also a means of siphoning money...

Possibly.

Meanwhile, Obiang has a taste for unlikely election victories.

He won the:
2002 election with 97.1% of the votes;
2009 vote with 95.8%;
2016 with 93.7%;
2022 with almost 95%.

( SOURCE: https://allafrica.com/stories/202211260005.html )

Do these figures seem realistic?

With the country’s population being fewer than 2 million, about 400,000 registered voters turned out to vote in this month's presidential election!

An epitome of selfishness

Forumobserver12:
So his son is also the vice president or I'm I missing something?

The citizens of that country should be ashamed of themselves for allowing President Obiang and his family to rule over them for the past 43yrs...

Nigeria is also tilting towards that direction.

The country citizens are like Lagos people..

I swear African leader are wicked. I trust all this Asia countries, they would have rioted since and chase him away. Someone blaming the west on front page, if the leaders are not selfish and wicked while can't they fight for what belongs to them?

wiseone28:
The country citizens are like Lagos people..

Very interesting perspective you have there.

You mean that they are satisfied to allow only one political party rule over them in perpetuity?

DeFuturePresido:


Very interesting perspective you have there.

You mean that they are satisfied to allow only one political party rule over them in perpetuity?

One party and one family

He Is Good For Them Thats Why He Continue His Good Work. If He Is Good What Is The Need For Change.

NaijaSamurai:
43 years? That is incredible!

Shouldn't the man have gotten fed up and resigned by now?

The man is not fed up.

He has joined the infamous list of African dictators such as:

Daniel Arap Moi
Emperor Bokassa
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Gbassingbe Eyadema
Idi Amin Dada
Meles Zenawi
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Milton Obote
Mobutu Sese Seko
Modibo Keita
Muammar Ghadaffi
Omar Bongo
Robert Mugabe
etc

Africa does have them!

Healthquest:
No different from UK where the kings are the owner of the country elected by nobody

They have no poltical power

That's quite a list you have there!

Leaders like them are part of the reasons so many Africans are running away from the continent.

If anything, the Japa wave is actually getting worse.

UBER99Sam:


The man is not fed up.

He has joined the infamous list of African dictators such as:

Daniel Arap Moi
Emperor Bokassa
Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Gbassingbe Eyadema
Idi Amin Dada
Meles Zenawi
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Milton Obote
Mobutu Sese Seko
Modibo Keita
Muammar Ghadaffi
Omar Bongo
Robert Mugabe
etc

Africa does have them!

Okay, I understand.

Well, if the Lagosians are satisfied the way things are, who are we to blame them?

And of course, if they are not satisfied, another election is coming...

wiseone28:
One party and one family

DeFuturePresido:
Okay, I understand.

Well, if the Lagosians are satisfied the way things are, who are we to blame them?

And of course, if they are not satisfied, another election is coming...

We are to teach them what they don't know..


Democracy does not mean.. Democracy for me, for my family, and for my children.

vowiski:

They have no poltical power

Lol.

U don't know anything.

The country work for them and de do absolute nothi g and feed from the public purse.

Na govt de feed dem.

Cheasystickylov:
Stop blaming the WEST, blame your greedy African leaders

It is a Western problem!
When more powerful countries use their huge assets to suppress the growth of other nations, they should be called out for that.
No one is making any excuses for bad leaders who should be condemned for their failures, yet, that does not take away the fact that the Western world is mainly responsible for the carnage in Africa!
You assassinate good African leaders at will.
You send your military forces to undermine progressive African states
You impose stooges across executive mansions in the continent and use skewed global laws to help entrench them in power.
And after all these, you claim innocence?

I hope he knows he can't be in power forever, his ousting will be very brutal, and that of his son will be worse.

wiseone28:
We are to teach them what they don't know..

Democracy does not mean.. Democracy for me, for my family, and for my children.

You are absolutely correct. Nepotism is not good for democracy.

However, we can only teach someone who is willing to learn.

The challenge in many parts of the country is that many of the less educated citizens actually take instructions (on whom to vote for) from their political, tribal or religious leaders.

Again, many of these people are the ones who have PVCs. At the same time, they are neither on social media or even on the internet.

So, how do we reach and enlighten them?

This topic is front-page worthy...let's make everybody aware of this.

Where are the Mods?

Lasticlala
Mynd44
Dominique
Ishillove
Seun

...over to you!

Longest ruling president..not a good record to hold.

Yet he still won about 95% of the votes in this month's election.

Don't they have any opposition parties in Equatorial Guinea?

IngeniousFunso:
Longest ruling president..not a good record to hold.

Yet he still won about 95% of the votes in this month's election.

Don't they have any opposition parties in Equatorial Guinea?

Yes, they do have opposition parties (as guaranteed by their 1991 constitution), but they might as well not exist.

Why? Let's take a look at the field of political parties in Equatorial Guinea:

1. DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA
This is the ruling party i.e. the party of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
The party holds ALL the 70 seats in the Senate, and 99 out of the 100 seats in the house of Deputies.

2. CONVERGENCE FOR SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
This is the main "opposition" party.
They have ZERO seats in the Senate and 1 seat in the house of Deputies.

3. OTHER PARTIES
There are more than 40 of them, so we won't bother to list them. None of them has any seat in the Senate or in the House of Deputies.

These parties, extremely small and ineffective, fall into 2 categories:
A. Those aligned with the government to provide a façade of democracy, and
B. Those which are not registered with the government and are therefore illegal.

So, do you think there is any real opposition party in Equatorial Guinea?

DeFuturePresido:


You are absolutely correct. Nepotism is not good for democracy.

However, we can only teach someone who is willing to learn.

The challenge in many parts of the country is that many of the less educated citizens actually take instructions (on whom to vote for) from their political, tribal or religious leaders.

Again, many of these people are the ones who have PVCs. At the same time, they are neither on social media or even on the internet.

So, how do we reach and enlighten them?

Lol i think we need to give them more of civic education.

wiseone28:
Lol i think we need to give them more of civic education.

Okay... that's a good one.

Bimpe29:
An epitome of selfishness

I tell you!

Imagine rigging elections and then filling everywhere with His relatives and cronies.