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The assassination on Saturday in Korhogo of a young activist of a movement favorable to Guillaume Soro revives latent tensions between the supporters of the President of the National Assembly and those of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly.
The tension mounted a notch, this Saturday, July 7 in Korhogo (north), between the former rebels loyal to Guillaume Soro and the Rassemblement des Républicains (RDR, party of Alassane Ouattara). Kognon Soro, a young activist from Rassemblement pour la Côte d'Ivoire (Raci), was killed with machetes by attackers. The victim participated in a general assembly of this political movement, which militates for a candidacy of Guillaume Soro in the presidential election of 2020, when the meeting was violently attacked by unidentified individuals, operating in the open.
Forty-eight hours after the fact, Guillaume Soro ended up reacting. In a brief statement from Canada, where he is on an official mission, he "respectfully bowed to the remains of this murdered young man in the full exercise of his constitutional rights."
Amadou Gon Coulibaly quoted in a statement video
Although he remained silent at first after this attack that touched the Raci, whose president of the movement, the deputy Kanigui Soro, is one of his relatives, Guillaume Soro did not remain inactive . The blogosphere that is faithful to him was thus put to contribution to denounce the murder. A video broadcast on Soro's official page and Kanigui Soro's Facebook live, published on the same media, has been seen tens of thousands of times.
The five-minute video, produced quickly by professionals, plants a rather accusing decor: "In Ivory Coast, the blood flowed this Saturday, July 7, 2018, for political reasons," can we hear. And the name of the prime minister is advanced, even if the person concerned is not directly implicated: "Before the murder of Kognon Soro, several executives of the Raci were victims of persecution from relatives of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly ", rival of Soro in the race for the succession of Alassane Ouattara
Political tensions
The deadly attack of Korhogo intervenes in a tense political context between the allies of the presidential movement of the Rally of the houphouetists for the Democracy and Peace (RHDP). In fact, the gap widens between Henri Konan Bédié, leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), and President Alassane Ouattara, about the presidential elections of 2020.
This crisis was transported within the PDCI, where a favorable dissent to Ouattara recently launched the movement "In the footsteps of Houphouët-Boigny". Meanwhile, at the RDR, there is growing tension between the former rebels of the Forces Nouvelles (FN) in the party and the leadership of the "first hour". [19659010] >>> READING – Ivory Coast: and if Ouattara went without Bedie?
Kanigui Soro, a former Forces Nouvelles delegate in Korhogo, has often come into conflict with Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who reigns politically over the country. city for two decades. "I ended my studies for your power, lost a leg for you, in return you try to prevent my election and you kill," indignant Kanigui Soro.
His barely veiled allusions are addressed to the RDR, but especially to relatives of the Prime Minister, whom he quotes by name. In response, the Korhogo RDR's youth departmental office immediately rebelled "against these political shortcuts that do not honor the honorable Kanigui" and decided to file a complaint against him.
Guillaume Soro's relatives threatened
The rivalries within the presidential party, in the event of a succession to Alassane Ouattara (who did not give up, for his part, to present itself in 2020), poison the atmosphere between ex- loyal rebels of Guillaume Soro and RDR leaders, loyal to Amadou Gon Coulibaly. In late June, in an interview with Jeune Afrique, Kandia Camara general secretary of the RDR, reminded Soro that "what he is today, he owes it to President Ouattara and the RDR. And he knows it, "insisting that she could" say it with a megaphone. "
In return, she had been strongly reprimanded by close associates of Soro. In recent weeks, the press close to the boss of the former rebellion has often reported threats to the security – or even to life – of the latter, without however providing any evidence.
rumors to be taken seriously, according to Alain Lobognon, former minister from the former rebellion and deputy on behalf of the RDR. "In the run-up to the upcoming elections, the police and the gendarmerie must take seriously the threats of all kinds made against the elected representatives of Guillaume Soro's relatives," he pleaded after the attack.
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