{"id":624,"date":"2010-01-22T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/5d6340d58044958f3cbb69fee50388df#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:07:15","slug":"niger-is-the-government-trying-to-annex-the-andp-zaman-lahiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/niger-is-the-government-trying-to-annex-the-andp-zaman-lahiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: is the government trying to annex the ANDP Zaman Lahiya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le Corrier of 21 January reports &quot;Tentative de \u00abtazartchisation \u00bb de l\u2019ANDP: Amadou Bagnou pris la main dans le sac&quot;.  They bring us up to date on the just ended congress on the ANDP Zaman Lahiya, party of the recently deceased Tandja rival and member of the Dosso ruling house, Moumouni Djermakoye Adamou.  In seeking a new leader for the, the party ended its congress on the 17th split, with a 6 month interim leadership going to Kindo Hamani.  But the day after, one Amadou Bagnou appeared on government TV and newspapers claiming to be the new head on the party.  Bagnou HAD been a member of the party in 1993, when he was Prefect of Tillaberi.  But he left the party and joined the ruling MNSD, becoming sub-prefect of Boboye. More recently he was MNSD prefect of Loga under Tandja.  Le Courrier suggests he&#039;s been re-inserted by Tandja&#039;s people to bring the ANDP into government.  Odd, as the ANDP formed in 1991 as a split from MNSD when Tandja beat Moumouni Djermakoye for it&#039;s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Corrier of 21 January reports &quot;Tentative de \u00abtazartchisation \u00bb de l\u2019ANDP: Amadou Bagnou pris la main dans le sac&quot;.  They bring us up to date on the just ended congress on the ANDP Zaman Lahiya, party of the recently deceased Tandja rival and member of the Dosso ruling house, Moumouni Djermakoye Adamou.  In seeking a new leader for the, the party ended its congress on the 17th split, with a 6 month interim leadership going to Kindo Hamani.  But the day after, one Amadou Bagnou appeared on government TV and newspapers claiming to be the new head on the party.  Bagnou HAD been a member of the party in 1993, when he was Prefect of Tillaberi.  But he left the party and joined the ruling MNSD, becoming sub-prefect of Boboye. More recently he was MNSD prefect of Loga under Tandja.  Le Courrier suggests he&#039;s been re-inserted by Tandja&#039;s people to bring the ANDP into government.  Odd, as the ANDP formed in 1991 as a split from MNSD when Tandja beat Moumouni Djermakoye for it&#039;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/niger-is-the-government-trying-to-annex-the-andp-zaman-lahiya\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1254,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2011\/03\/niger-lucky-seven-can-a-new-president-signal-more-responsive-politics-in-niamey\/","url_meta":{"origin":624,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Lucky Seven.  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He may not like the consequences of what will happen in the next few months, but there will be consequences. Not General Bar\u00e9 Ma\u00efnassara sort of \"consequences\", but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1705,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-arrests-continue-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":624,"position":4},"title":"Niger: Arrests continue","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The arrests I noted earlier continued Monday, with at least 13 figures being held at the Gendarmerie, including top leaders who rallied to Tandja's 6th Republic in 2009: former PM and MNSD party leader Seini Oumarou, Mohamed Ben Omar and Moktar Kassoum...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":848,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-junta-names-prime-minister-brings-in-men-from-saibou-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":624,"position":5},"title":"Niger: Junta names Prime Minister, brings in men from Saibou era.","date":"February 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the Monday night communique outlining the transitional authority of the CSRD, The junta President Salou Djibo has named as Prime Minister Mahmadou Danda, the former interim Communications Minister during the 1999 junta's interim rule. 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