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André Mba Obame (15 June 1957〔(Page for Mba Obame ) at UNESCO website .〕〔"Mba Obame André", ''Gabon: Les hommes de pouvoir'', number 4, (Africa Intelligence ), 5 March 2002 .〕 – 12 April 2015) was a Gabonese politician. After serving as an adviser to President Omar Bongo in the 1980s, he was a minister in the government of Gabon from 1990 to 1991 and again from 1997 to 2009; during that time, he was identified with the reformist wing of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG). He held the key post of Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2009 and then briefly served as Minister of the Coordination and Follow-up of Government Action in mid-2009. He was an independent candidate in the 30 August 2009 presidential election and placed third with 25.33% of the vote,〔Robert Elgie (Dublin City University), "(Gabon – Election results changed, winner confirmed )," The semi-presidential one, 15 October 2009〕 according to official results, but he claimed victory and alleged that the PDG candidate, Ali Bongo, won through fraud. ==Political career== Mba Obame was born in Medouneu, located in northern Gabon. He was President Omar Bongo's Deputy Adviser for African and International Affairs from 1984 to 1986 and then Adviser to the President for Development and Public and Productive Investments before being appointed to the government as Minister of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and the Rural Economy in April 1990. Subsequently he was moved to the post of Minister of Human Rights and Relations with the Assemblies in November 1990.〔 Mba Obame was viewed as a PDG reformist in the early 1990s, along with Bongo's son Ali Bongo. A 1991 legal change sought by party leaders required that ministers be at least 35 years old, thus forcing his departure from the government, along with Ali-Ben Bongo.〔Philippe Bernard, ("Ali Ben Bongo, Monsieur Fils" ), ''Le Monde'', 17 June 2009 .〕 From 1991 to 1994, Mba Obame was Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, and from 1994 to 1997 he was High Commissioner under the Minister of the Interior.〔 In the December 1996 parliamentary election, Mba Obame won a seat in the National Assembly as a PDG candidate in Woleu-Ntem Province;〔 he then returned to the government as Minister of Relations with Parliament and the Assemblies, as well as Government Spokesman, on 28 January 1997.〔"Décret N° 144/PR, fixant la composition du Gouvernement.", ''Journal Officiel de la République Gabonaise'', January 1997, pages 2–3 .〕 After Bongo won re-election according to the official results of the December 1998 presidential election (disputed by the opposition), Mba Obame said that "the campaign was of high quality and the Gabonese showed maturity and serenity which can only add credibility to the Gabonese political system".〔("GABON: Opposition calls for strike action to protest election results" ), IRIN-West Africa Update 359, 14 December 1998.〕 Following Bongo's re-election, Mba Obame was moved to the post of Minister of National Education on 25 January 1999, while remaining Government Spokesman.〔(List of governments of Gabon ), IZF.net .〕 In the December 2001 parliamentary election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly as a PDG candidate in Woleu-Ntem Province,〔 and after that election he was moved from his position as Minister of National Education to that of Minister of National Solidarity, Social Affairs and Welfare on 27 January 2002.〔〔 On 21 January 2006, he was promoted to the position of Minister of State for the Interior, Security and Immigration.〔 In the December 2006 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly as the PDG candidate in Medouneu Commune.〔("Liste des Députés par Circonscription" ), National Assembly website (accessed 5 January 2009) .〕 His ministerial portfolio was modified on 28 December 2007, when he was appointed as Minister of the Interior, Local Collectivities, Decentralization, Security, and Immigration (without the rank of Minister of State).〔〔("Gabon : Le président Omar Bongo Ondimba remanie son gouvernement" ), Infosplusgabon, 29 December 2007 .〕 As Interior Minister, Mba Obame encountered strong criticism in the press after he reportedly proposed selling Mbiané—a small, uninhabited island lying in potentially oil-rich waters—to neighboring Equatorial Guinea.〔("Outrage as Gabon "sells" island to Equatorial Guinea" ), afrol News.〕 Following the death of President Bongo on 8 June 2009, Mba Obame asserted that the presidential succession was "strictly following the constitutional route, contrary to supposition and Machiavellian plans attributed to one person or another, particularly the defence minister", a reference to the widely held belief that Ali-Ben Bongo, the Minister of Defense, was a likely successor.〔("Gabon bids to choke fears of Bongo succession battle" ), AFP, 9 June 2009.〕 In the government named on 19 June 2009, he was moved to the position of Minister of the Coordination and Follow-up of Government Action.〔("Gabon: Composition du nouveau Gouvernement de Jean Eyeghé Ndong, reconduit dans ses fonctions" ), Gabonews, 20 June 2009 .〕 Jean-François Ndongou succeeded him at the Interior Ministry in a ceremony held on 24 June.〔("Gabon: Passation de charges au ministère de l’Intérieur entre André Mba Obame et Jean-François Ndongou" ), Gabonews, 24 June 2009 .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「André Mba Obame」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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