The Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (FCBE), an opposition party in Benin, has announced that it is joining the ruling coalition. The party, which lost last month's presidential election, announced over the weekend, just two weeks before the inauguration of president-elect Romuald Wadagni. The FCBE, regarded as a moderate opposition force and the only opposition group that contested the recent Benin presidential election against the outgoing majority, says it would now align itself with the governing bloc. Lulu Gaboo spoke to political analyst, Jean Donald Taladzi.

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