André Obami Itou

André Obami Itou (born 26 September 1940''Biographie des membres de la quatrième législature'' (1985), People's National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville, page 28 .) is a Congolese politician. He has been a leading figure in the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) since the 1970s, and he has been the President of the Senate of Congo-Brazzaville from 2007 to 2017.

Political career

An ethnic Teke,Emmanuel Okamba, ''La gouvernance, une affaire de société: Analyse mythiumétrique de la performance'' (2010), page 46 . Obami Itou was born at Epouéné, Gamboma, located in Plateaux Region.Roger Ngombé
"André Obami Itou élu président du Sénat"
''Les Dépêches de Brazzaville'', number 370, 3 December 2007, pages 1–2 . He began working at the Ministry of Defense in 1965. Obami Itou was a founding member of the PCT in December 1969, and he was first councillor at the Congolese embassy in Algeria from 1969 to 1971. He became government commissioner, or prefect, of Bouenza Region in 1971,Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, ''Les voies du politique au Congo: essai de sociologie historique'' (1997), Karthala Editions, page 443 . and he joined the PCT Central Committee in 1972; he remained on the Central Committee throughout the PCT's single-party rule.

Obami Itou was the director-general of the Kinsoundi textile factory from 1973 to 1974,"André Obami Itou élu nouveau président du Sénat"
, Xinhua, 1 December 2007 . an ambassador-at-large from 1975 to 1976, and director-general of the national oil refinery from 1976 to 1978.Cyr Armel Yabbat-Ngo, "André Obami Itou succède à Ambroise Edouard Noumazalay", ''Le Semaine Africaine'', number 2,749, 4 December 2007, pages 2 and 4 . In 1979, he briefly served as Administrator-Mayor of Brazzaville, the capital; subsequently he was political commissioner of the Pool Region from 1980 to 1984.

At the PCT's Third Ordinary Congress, held on 27–31 July 1984, Obami Itou was elected as President of the PCT Control and Verification Commission. He remained in that post until July 1987, when he was instead designated as the PCT Central Committee's Secretary for Organization.''African Contemporary Record'', volume 20
(1989), page B-203. Obami Itou, who was known as a loyalist of President Denis Sassou Nguesso,''Benin, the Congo, Burkina Faso: Economics, Politics and Society'' (1989), page 184. thereby gained power over party organization at the expense of Camille Boungou, who was identified with the PCT's M-22 faction. Obami Itou was elected to the PCT Political Bureau at the party's Fourth Ordinary Congress on 26–31 July 1989 and assigned responsibility for foreign relations. In mid-1990, he was included as one of five members of the Secretariat of the PCT Central Committee, in charge of foreign relations. Later, he was appointed as the Administrator-Delegate of Hydro-Congo, the country's oil exploration and exploitation company, on 31 December 1999; he held that position until 2002.

In 2002, Obami Itou headed the PCT's candidate list for Gamboma in the local election for the Regional Council; subsequently he was elected to the Senate as a candidate in Plateaux Region in July 2002. He was elected by the Senate as President of the Commission for Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and Development Cooperation on 23 August 2002. When the Pan-African Parliament began meeting in March 2004, Obami Itou became one of Congo's five members.

Ambroise Noumazalaye

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