Emmanuel Ondo Methogo

Emmanuel Ondo Methogo (born 24 June 1946 ) is a Gabonese politician. A member of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (Parti démocratique gabonais, PDG), he was a minister in the government from 1991 to 2007. After two years in that position, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister for Justice in January 1999 and then as Deputy Prime Minister for National Solidarity, Social Affairs and Welfare in December 1999. In the December 2006 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly again; he was then named Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Relations with Parliament and the Constitutional Institutions on 25 January 2007.

His appointment as President of the National Council of Communication (CNC) was announced on 22 January 2009; the CNC is a nine-member body tasked with regulating the national media. Opposition leader Zacharie Myboto argued that the manner in which Ondo Methogo became President of the CNC—succeeding François Engogah Owono, who was appointed to the government—was unconstitutional. In late May 2009, when Myboto raised the matter in the National Assembly, Prime Minister Jean Eyéghé Ndong suggested that he take his complaint to the Constitutional Court.

Following the December 2014 Senate election, Ondo Methogo was elected as Third Vice-President of the Senate on 27 February 2015.