It has been a long time since we, I mean you and I have sat down to have tete-a-tete together. Before I continue I must say a very big Merry Xmas and a Blooming New Year to you. I am sorry for the long
self vacation I did impose on myself. Well it wasnt my fault that I took such a decision but I am sure after telling you what I went for, you should be convinced that I took a wise thought.
Well for the sake of God, I will like to plead with the powers that may be to help solve or resolve this issue of 2 Presidents, 2 Prime Ministers, 2 Presidential Palaces (though one is a guarded hotel building).
Where are we heading from here Mr. Alassane Ouattara and Mr. Laurent Gbagbo? I have witnessed elections go down the wire and yet a winner is adjudged and all hell break loose yet not to this extent. I
was in Ghana during the Atta Mills and Akuffo Addo drama, yet no ill mannered act came off it; so can't Ivory Coast learn from this for posterity's sake?
For the records, I will like to bring back some slight memories to what has led to all these rantings. Now here comes the drama, three prominent men in Ivory Coast vied to become Presidents. Though they
are all very old beccause I believe that the future belongs to the young and young at heart. After the first round, Bedie was dropped leaving Ouattara and Gbagbo to go for run-off which has turned into a more
than imagined incident now. Immediately after the results were announced, the current man on seat screamed a big foul. But here in Africa that a sitting president will be crying foul play. Now the whole world
has accepted this same man that was rejected couple of times by the sitting president. Yet the highest court in the land has rather accepted the sitting man, Gbagbo.
The drama has just begun as Gbabo and his allies have promise, infact vowed not to leave power ever if his great grand mother comes to beg him, funny, but that is what we are see in the little country known
for its power over the world's cocoa which Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the founding father did gain independence for. The drama continues with its written script as such that one president is in the presidential
villa and the other is in the Golf hotel whic is heavily protected by razor wire and UN peacekeepers, with three tanks parked at the main entrance. Almost all the international community and the Ivorian
independent electoral commission recognise the opposition leader and former International Monetary Fund economist, Alassane Ouattara, as the winner of the 28 November poll. But Laurent Gbagbo, who
has been president since 2000, is keen to stay on. He is backed by the Constitutional Court, which annulled about half a million votes from Mr Ouattara's stronghold.
It looks like deja vu but it is real that a country that should be uniting is rather falling apart. Gbagbo 65 and Ouattara 68 have both refused to play lesser roles so as to affect the younger ones right, rather they
have chosen for themselves the main characters and are washing their dirty linen in public. A presidential election that was supposed to close a chapter on a decade of violence and instability is now simply
another paragraph in a story of endless political wrangling. Where are we heading to?
What stories shall we tell our younger ones? What shall we say happened to our loved ones? What shall we say was the benefit of seizing power when you should have humbly relinquish it? What kind of script
shall we read few years from now?
