During this time, Lozes also served as General Secretary of the unique Parti Démocratique Dahoméen (PDD) and as Ahomadegbe's right-hand man.
On 28 January 1966 he was briefly detained for interrogation on suspicion of publishing tracts inciting revolt against the new government of Christophe Soglo.
He was again imprisoned in May 1969, being accused of plotting to return Ahomadegbe to power and to overthrow the regime of Emile Zinsou.
[3][4][5] The Lozès family migrated to the French suburban city of Creil in 1979, then to Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
[6] Gabriel Lozes is the father of Patrick Lozès (fr), former president of the Representative Council of France's Black Associations and candidate to the 2012 French presidential election.