DRC: ex-Prime Minister Matata Ponyo leaves the PPRD and the FCC
Former DRC Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo in Kinshasa, April 19, 2012 the day after his appointment.
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New defection in the ranks of pro-Kabila.
Former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo announced this morning his departure from the PPRD and the FCC for, he wrote, reasons of personal convenience.
This departure is commented in all directions in political circles in the DRC.
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As soon as he resigned, former Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo, on Twitter, thanked former President Joseph Kabila for allowing him to work for nearly 12 years in the PPRD, the former presidential party, and to serve as Minister of Finance and Prime Minister.
For reasons of personal convenience, I submitted my resignation to the PPRD and FCC.
I thank His Excellency the President Hon.
JK Kabange for allowing me to work for nearly 12 years in the PPRD and to occupy the positions of Minister of Finance and Prime Minister.
- Matata Ponyo Mapon (@Mapon_Matata) March 12, 2021
His resignation comes at a time when the Kabila clan seems to be losing momentum.
Several people have already deserted the FCC family to join the Sacred Union of the Nation, an initiative of President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi which ended the FCC-CACH coalition.
According to his confidants, Augustin Matata Ponyo never felt at ease among his former companions, "many of whom did not carry him in their hearts".
It must also be said that Matata Ponyo is moving away from Joseph Kabila at the time when the name of the former Prime Minister is mentioned in a financial scandal: the embezzlement of public funds intended for the agro-industrial group of Bukanga-Lonzo.
The file has already been sent to justice, it is said to the General Inspectorate of Finance.
But Augustin Matata Ponyo claims his innocence and speaks of political manipulation whose objective, according to him, is to drown him.
Does he intend to move closer to current power as many have already done?
No comment for the moment from the main interested party
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