Debats et Opinions: “Allassane Dramane Ouattara seeking to stay in office for another term despite his ineligibility, and illegality”, By Nimba Tiannimbo Mhaat

Côte d’Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) is likely to have an uphill bitter struggle for the rest of this year as never before with Allassane Dramane Ouattara seeking to stay in office for another term despite his ineligibility, and illegality. It will not be put in the proper context to say here that Allassane Ouattara is seeking for re-election because at the beginning he has never won any election. He was imposed in power by the famous “international community” ( USA, France and UK). Notwithstanding the country’s fake peaceful environment of the “post-crisis”, there is a general wave of pessimism which is rattling on the heads of the Ivorian people who are taken as hostage in their own country. Côte d’Ivoire is still occupied by 4 foreign forces: French army, U.N. forces, Allassane Dramane’s security guard mostly composed of former Burkina Faso soldiers, and more than 50,000 armed civlian Burkinabé people who were transported from Burkina Faso by the regime of Allassane Dramane Ouattara to come occupy the plantations, and lands of the Ivorian people after the coup d’Ėtat of France on April 11,2011 which has occasioned the toppling of President Laurent Gbagbo. In 2012, and 2013 some French newspapers had conducted some surveys to test the popularity of Allassane Ouattara and President Gbagbo.

Their lackey Allassane Ouattara had received the lowest approval ratings compared to President Laurent Gbagbo. Viewing the two consecutive years of Allassane Ouattara getting back to back the lowest ratings, they automatically stop doing surveys in the country because of the unpopularity of their “ protégé ”.

The governing regime of Allassane Dramane Ouattara and his “ally” PDCI ( Parti Démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire ) by choosing him as their presidential candidate for the October 2015 vote, we will be enduring a political dilemma which is: choose Allassane Ouattara or Côte d’Ivoire.
Consequently, who supports the candidacy of Allassane Ouattara for the October 2015, this person has chosen to support the evaporation of Côte d’Ivoire of the world’s map because it means that the country doesn’t have any legal provision. The candidacy of Allassane Ouattara for the upcoming October 2015 Presidential election in this political and legal context automatically suspends not only the Constitution of the country, but also at the same time the Parliament, and all the institutions of the Republic and makes Allassane Dramane Ouattara as the State of Côte d’Ivoire ( Ivory Coast).

By France pushing Allassane Ouattara to present himself as a candidate for this election, the name Côte d’Ivoire will not exist anymore and it will be called now then the “ Republic of Allassane Dramane Ouattara” because his will, statements, and decisions will be above the administration of the country. Let’s me clear here. This question is not about if we like Allassane Ouattara or not. Therefore, Allassane Dramane Ouattara’s regime and his “ally” PDCI of the crook Henry Konan Bédié ( the former President of Côte d’Ivoire) must get rid of their emotions, put their little personal interest, and greedy on the side and then apprehend with objectivity the route of chaos they want us to follow which is: the mean of force, and not the law or democracy. It clearly means that now in this country whoever wants to become a president has to create his own terrorist/rebellion group and be backed by the famous “ international community”. For what it has been happening in Côte d’Ivoire, if we applied the same principle of reciprocity in Mali, or Burkina Faso, or Nigeria, or Liberia, and so on, do you believe that an Ivorian citizen can allow himself to impose his candidacy on the Malian, or Burkinabé, or Nigerian, or Liberian people for the presidential election of 2015 while it is not in accordance with the fundamental law of the country? And comes this universal truth that anybody can’t deny: “ Don’t do to others people what you don’t want them to do to you”.

A lot of mistake, and wrongdoings have been made by a group of people out there who have one objective: the submersion of this country in order for them to loot the resources. It is about time to overcome our selfishness, personal interests if we want to leave a heritage to our children and grand-children in a country where it will be very agreeable to live in peace. We don’t want to see again a country so troubled by severe insecurity, and violence as never before. Côte d’Ivoire is a very important country in the region to see itself plunging in an instability which will have a grave consequence in the entire region if Allassane Dramane Ouattara who is in connivance with some French and others Western interest groups, dares to present himself at this coming presidential election instead of stepping down as the Constitution has penned.

The candidacy of Mr. Ouattara for the presidential election of October 2015 once again confirms the desire of Allassane Ouattara’s clan and their Western-backers to maintain a stranglehold grip on Côte d’Ivoire by destroying the cornerstone of the soul of our Constitution: Article 35. The Ivorian people, in fact, the ones who love their country and want to be sovereign, don’t want to see the heritage left to them by their forefathers to be burnt by shameless, and unscrupulous people. Allassane Ouattara and his famous “international community” backers want to make Côte d’Ivoire: A nobody’s land” where there is no law. A place somewhere on planet earth where anybody can come and do whatever pleases him to do. We are already witnessing the raping of the country since he came to power thanks to the collaboration of his Western-backers.

They are preparing some political pitfalls in the future against the Ivorian people. We just need to see what is happening with more than 35,000 illegal immigrants from Burkina Faso have invaded the National Park of Mount Péko in the “cocoa belt” region with the help of the army of Allassane Dramane Ouattara. They have taken over this National park by destroying the rainforest in order to clear path for the development of cocoa plantations for the Western chocolate companies. And this situation has been qualified as a “humanity catastrophe” as many Ivorian people whom these lands belonged, have fled their lands to save their lives from being butchered the militias of Allassane Ouattara.

Allassane Dramane Ouattara has the ability to create chaos, disorder and then later to proclaim himself as the only man who can restore order. Today in Côte d’Ivoire, the Ivorian people are really facing deplorable situations when people like Allassane Ouattara refuse to comply with the laws that govern our country. Malpractices in the public sector with the misappropriation of funds have become the daily routine of the regime of Allassane Dramane Ouattara. Under his regime, Côte d’Ivoire is now a “ corruption carousel” with a record of financial scandals orchestrated by his entourage. Allassane Ouattara having his back on the wall, he is trying everything to maintain himself in power with the “blessing” of its Western sponsors for the most part in France. Ineligible at the coming presidential election of October 2015 under the Article 35 of the Constitution, Allassane Ouattara wants to modify the Constitution by maneuvering it through a false case law the Article 48 of the Constitution. He is trying to do it by choosing the anti-democratic and anti-constitutional ways thanks to a very imbalance CEI ( Independent Electorate Commission) that has been completely set up for his favor just to maintain him in power. By doing so, Allassane Ouattara wants to challenge the Ivorian people who are asking nothing but the strict respect of the Constitution of their country and they are ready to die for it. How far Allassane Dramane Ouattara and his sponsor France can go to shed more blood of the Ivorian people in order to make Côte d’Ivoire, the cocoa plantation for the Western chocolate companies?

A contribution
By Nimba Tiannimbo Mhaat,
International Economics and Politics Analyst