By RFPosted on 20-11-2019Modified on 20-11-2019 at 18:35

Boni Yayi arrived in Benin on Wednesday with a large delegation from the Economic Community of West African States. The delegation of ECOWAS went to the presidency for a meeting with President Patrice Talon, but without Boni Yayi.

Yayi Boni chose not to participate in this meeting with President Patrice Talon. According to one of his relatives, it is to avoid that we summarize the Benin crisis to a conflict between him and the head of state. " The crisis is much deeper, " says this close. " This is the future of Beninese democracy ," he says.

Boni Yayi therefore preferred to leave the delegation of the ECOWAS that accompanies him, to return to his home in the district of Cadjehoun.

Earlier in the afternoon, Thomas Boni Yayi first went to the home of former president Nicéphore Soglo, the other great voice of the Beninese opposition. According to his entourage, he then presented his condolences to the family of Prudence Amoussou, the mother of seven children shot dead during an opposition demonstration in the aftermath of the contested elections.

According to our information, it is the president of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari who put a plane at his disposal. Boni Yayi has been living in Nigeria for more than 2 months.
Before arriving in Cotonou, he first went to Niger, where he met President Issoufou. And it is from Niger that he arrived in Benin. He should stay a few days before leaving for Nigeria, we learn from his entourage.

The former Beninese president left Cotonou on June 22, after more than a month of confinement in his residence in the Cadjehoun district, surrounded by police since the post-election violence that followed the legislative elections. April 28th. These elections, in which no opposition party had been able to participate, opened a political crisis from which the country was struggling to emerge.

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