Assoa Adou

Gbagbo's faithful lieutenant Assoa Adou fights for the presidency of the Indénié Djuablin region in the southeast while the southwestern region of Gbôklè will see the reappearance of Adia Damana 'Pickass' who will be vying for its presidency...

The party's executive president is Hubert Oulaye who led Gbagbo's cabinet in the late 1990s and his trusted spokesman while in exile Assoa Adou who heads the Political and Strategic Council the new party's governing body...

A day earlier he had celebrated Mass at the cathedral in Abidjan-Plateau accompanied by his lieutenants Assoa Adou (the FPI Secretary-General) chief of staff Kuyo Tea Narcisse and spokesman Justin Katinan Koné...

The same day police lifted the siege of the Bédié residence and those of the remaining CNT members including Assoa Adou exiled ex-President Laurent Gbagbo's right-hand man in Brussels...

Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko however has reached to former president Laurent Gbagbo and he had a meeting with Assoa Adou...

Whoever the PDCI-RDA candidate will be a serious opposition challenge will depend on the capacity of key figures in allied movements such as Kanigui Soro (no relation) in Soro's Générations et Peuples Solidaires (GPS) Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Assoa Adou in Gbagbo's still fragile FPI and Georges Armand Ouégnin of the pro-Gbagbo grassroots Ensemble pour la démocratie et la souveraineté (EDS)...

FPI-N'Guessan Secretary-General Agnès Monnet has called FPI-Gbagbo Secretary General Assoa Adou (and by extension Gbagbo himself) 'a dissident'...