He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).
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He stood as a candidate in the 2010 Togolese presidential election; however, his candidacy was rejected by the Constitutional Court due to doubt about his identity.
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Some other early announced candidates were the minor opposition leader Dahuku Péré, who led the Democratic Alliance for the Fatherland, as well as Kofi Yamgnane, who held dual nationality and served in the government of France under François Mitterrand.