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Kagame distances self from succession plan, says it’s up to Rwandans

Rwandan President Paul Kagame during a panel discussion at the Ibrahim Governance Weekend in Kigali on April 28, 2018. PHOTO | RWANDA PRESIDENCY

By  Ivan R. Mugisha

Who will succeed President Paul Kagame? Ask the ruling party – Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) – and Rwandan citizens, says the president.

“The succession plan is not mine. If it had been, I would not be here now; I would have left because that is what I intended to do,” President Kagame said last week during a panel discussion at the Ibrahim Governance Weekend in Kigali.

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