DRC: the Lamuka opposition platform in full schism

Adolphe Muzito and Martin Fayulu in front of the press in Kinshasa on September 17, 2021. © Pascal Mulegwa / RFI

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The divorce is totally consummated between Martin Fayulu and Adolphe Muzito. The two opponents are fighting over the management of the Lamuka opposition platform. The Muzito camp does not recognize Martin Fayulu's protégé whom he threw at Lamuka's head.

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With our correspondent in Kinshasa, Patient Ligodi

Martin Fayulu considers that Adolphe Muzito and his party Le Nouvel Élan have excluded themselves from the platform. He also organized last weekend a transfer of power to hand over the rotating coordination of Lamuka to Matthieu Kalele, an opponent qualified by the Muzito camp as close to the former candidate in the last presidential election. An act that Muzito's party considers a rebellion because, according to Nouvel Élan, Mathieu Kalele's co-optation was made irregularly and fraudulently. Adolphe Muzito's party therefore considers the transfer of power between Martin Fayulu and Mathieu Kalele as ineffective. And accuses the former presidential candidate of wanting to monopolize Lamuka.

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He has just sealed this divorce, says Blanchard Mongomba, secretary general of New Momentum. He has just confirmed this by violating the principle laid down by the Lamuka Convention by placing his friend Professor Kalele at the head of Lamuka illegally. He crossed the Rubicon. It's over! The divorce is consummated. We will continue the struggle of resistance within Lamuka.

Even if he now claims the exclusive management of Lamuka, Adolphe Muzito does not intend to run for president on behalf of this platform. New Momentum says it sees Lamuka as an alliance for resistance and popular pressure on the leadership. For its part, Martin Fayulu's Ecide party maintains its position and sticks to the coordination provided by Matthieu Kalele and promises that the candidate for the last presidential election, will take over the head of the platform in six months.

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