MUILTITUDE SHOW UP FOR KATUMBI RALLY IN THE DRC CAPITAL
Thousands of supporters turned out for a rally addressed by exiled opposition leader Moise Katumbi via video in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Elections in DRC are due in December, 2018 but indications suggests incumbent president Joseph Kabila may not hold the poll.
Katumbi, who leads a coalition known as Ensemble , used a video link on Saturday to address thousands of opponents of president Joseph Kabila.
Kabila has been in power for 17 years and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term but his government is maneuvering to change the constitution so that he would stand.
Katumbi, a millionaire businessman and former governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's Copper-producing Katanga Province, is seen as the opposition's leading candidate in the election.
" I will return to Congo to end the suffering of the Congolese people", he sold a rally. He pledgedvto form a coalition with the other main opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi.
Kabila and his team had agreed to an agreement engineered by the Catholic Church that will extend their stay only by a year but those negotiations have through the timeline gone beyond two years.
Elections in DRC are due in December, 2018 but indications suggests incumbent president Joseph Kabila may not hold the poll.
Katumbi, who leads a coalition known as Ensemble , used a video link on Saturday to address thousands of opponents of president Joseph Kabila.
Kabila has been in power for 17 years and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term but his government is maneuvering to change the constitution so that he would stand.
Katumbi, a millionaire businessman and former governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's Copper-producing Katanga Province, is seen as the opposition's leading candidate in the election.
" I will return to Congo to end the suffering of the Congolese people", he sold a rally. He pledgedvto form a coalition with the other main opposition leader, Felix Tshisekedi.
Kabila and his team had agreed to an agreement engineered by the Catholic Church that will extend their stay only by a year but those negotiations have through the timeline gone beyond two years.