The President of the Coordination Council
STATEMENT
We condemn the fascist coup d’État led by Umaru Sissoko Embaló and demand the immediate release of Comrades Domingos Simões Pereira, PAIGC President, and Fernando Dias da Costa, President-Elect of Guinea-Bissau.
Since yesterday, 26 November 2025, a fascist scenario has unfolded — a self-coup orchestrated by Umaru Sissoko Embaló, who was overwhelmingly defeated at the polls.
The very clear aim is to prevent the electoral body from announcing results that are unfavorable to this well-known agent of the neo-colonial system.
The blatant proof of this grotesque scheme is the arrest of our Brave and Fearless comrades Domingos Simões Pereira, President of the PAIGC (a member party of OPAO/WAPO), and President-Elect Fernando Dias da Costa.
Umaru Sissoko Embaló thus reveals himself once again as a habitual coup instigator and a fierce Enemy of Democracy, of the Sovereignty of the People, and of its Republican Institutions. Already in December 2023, he dissolved the democratically elected National People’s Assembly.
The West African Peoples Organization – WAPO (OPAO):
1. Demands the immediate release of Comrades Domingos Simões Pereira, PAIGC President, and Fernando Dias da Costa.
2. Demands the announcement of the results and the recognition of President-Elect Fernando Dias da Costa.
3. Congratulates the swift reaction of the patriotic organisations of Guinea-Conakry and Guinea-Bissau itself.
4. Calls on all WAPO sections to protest vigorously, in various ways, for the immediate release of the detained Comrades and for the proclamation of the results from the polls.
Cotonou, 27 November 2025
Signed.
Prof. Philippe Toyo NOUDJENOUME
President of the WAPO Coordination Council.
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