Sunday 4th June, end of the tour of the presentation of the PDCI-RDA candidates that Pr Maurice Kakou Guikahué, Vice-President and Head of the Executive Secretariat of the PDCI-RDA, has been doing since Friday 2nd June. On this Mother’s Day, Johann Djédjé and André Logbo were presented to the population to be candidates for the town hall of Gagnoa and the Gôh region respectively. It was at Place Bonwéli in Garahio.

After the usual ceremony (libation and party anthem), Alain Tchimou (PCO) had the honor of welcoming Guikahué and his delegation.

Before presenting his party’s candidates, Maurice Kakou Guikahué wished the mothers present at the ceremony a Happy Mother’s Day. He then conveyed the fraternal and combative greetings of President Henri Konan Bédié to the population and party structures.

Guikahué introduces the candidate Johann Djédjé for the municipal elections and says: “President Bédié is playing the competent youth card. Because Johann Djédjé joined the World Bank at the age of 27. He is under 45 today. It is an expert in development economics that President Bédié puts at your disposal to really push the development of Gagnoa. He is currently one of the senior managers of a multinational company based in Ivory Coast.

In the region, with André Logbo, “President Bédié is playing the experience card”. André Logbo, former General Manager of Côte d’Ivoire Post and several government structures, is experienced and highly experienced in administration and seeking development finance. “It is this man of great experience that President Bédié puts at your disposal for the effective administration and harmonious development of the Gôh region,” said Guikahué.

After this brief presentation of the PDCI candidates, the specialist structures of the party endorsed these candidatures.

For the JPDCI, it was Gnapia Anicet who spoke on behalf of the young people. “This opportunity is for us, young people of the PDCI-RDA of Gagnoa, to reaffirm our unwavering attachment to the PDCI-RDA, its ideals and to His Excellency Mr. Aimé Henri Konan Bédié, President of the PDCI-RDA.” , he said before reassuring No. 2 of the party founded by Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Pr Maurice Kakou Guikahué: “Mr. Secretary-General, convey to President Henri Konan Bédié our deep gratitude and appreciation for having chosen the person Mr. Johann Djédjé for these local elections on September 02, 2023. We believe in him and we are convinced that he is the winning horse.

In addition, he will say: “I also want to assure the Vice President, Senator André Logbo, candidate for the GOH regional elections, that we young people from Gagnoa for the happiness of our parents, for an inclusive development, for the funding of youth projects in the region, for the empowerment of our young sisters through funding, for your vision of governing the GOH region differently, we strongly and emphatically support your candidacy and we place ourselves at your service to implement our sociological majority on in the ballot box on the evening of September 2, 2023.

For the UFPCI, it was Angèle Sahiri, affectionately known as “La Canadienne” (she lives between Canada and Ivory Coast), President of the UFPCI of the Gagnoa Municipal Delegation, who spoke on behalf of the women. “I have a dream” (I had a dream), she said immediately, revealing that she had dreamed of Johann Djédjé being elected mayor of Gagnoa and Logbo André president of the Gôh region. She will address women and mothers and wish them a happy Mother’s Day: “I would like to ask our mothers and our sisters: let’s give the City Hall and the Regional Council to our children who went to school and study in Europe.” by the whites , how to develop a place to save us.”

Mouhon Fondjé Lucien, general secretary of the PDCI section and teacher, will speak on behalf of the SGS and the teachers and advocate them for the victory of the PDCI candidates. “We are Logbo and Johann. And we are Johann and Logbo,” he said to reveal the complicity between the SGS, the teachers and the Bédié party candidates.

On behalf of the departmental delegates, he addressed Gagnoa-2 delegate Marcellin Bohui dit Pablo, who called on his colleagues and the entire population of their respective constituencies to support the candidates Johann Djédjé and André Logbo for the PDCI’s victory. RDA.

The PDCI candidate for mayor of Gagnoa, Johann Djédjé, will say: “We will present you with a project, a development program for Gagnoa, when the election campaign starts.” And I know that you will love it and will accept it in the elections. He then shared his development experience at the World Bank with several multinational companies present in Ivory Coast. He also announced that he had worked with the late Minister Bohoun Bouabré at the HIPC.

As for André Logbo, who aspires to preside over the presidency of the regional council, he will essentially address the traditional chiefs and the population: “They sent us to school. What can we give you individually and together? It’s development, the joy of living in a developed environment. We know the networks to get funding for our development projects. We will return to the campaign, but in the meantime I ask you to accept us, put us to the test and in 5 years you will see the difference.

Maurice Kakou Guikahué took the floor again at the end of the ceremony and committed the structures of his party and the people to reconciliation, social cohesion and peace, which are the essential prerequisites for launching the harmonious development promised by his candidates.

“With this pledge from the party leader, we are going to the local and regional elections on September 2, 2023 to be peaceful and non-violent and to have the opportunity to demonstrate our desire for reconciliation and peace.” We therefore appeal to everyone political party leaders to conduct elections without fatalities,” he said. Not without reacting to the Tax Minister Jacques Assahoré, who made a so-called shaky exit in Iffou at the presentation of the RHDP candidates in that place.

“The local and regional elections are developmental elections. Local communities need to be led by people who are equipped, experienced and have a vision. The propaganda that it is obligatory to elect the ruling party’s candidates in order to ensure the financial means of the President of the Republic must not flourish. “Every candidate of a political party, once elected President of the Republic, becomes President of all, guarantor of the Constitution and therefore of equal access to the wealth of the country for all, without exception,” he ruled.

Finally, Guikahué will send his “soldiers” on a mobilization and search mission.

“To maximize our chances of success, these September 2023 elections must be prepared in peace, brotherhood and cohesion. Let’s get to work, raise awareness and mobilize people, develop our ideas and be vigilant on election day. Therefore, our immediate task is to participate in the 2023 Provisional Listing litigation that began on Thursday, June 1, 2023. We managed to register new activists. Let the teams that did this remarkable work mobilize to verify that those who voted them on are actually there. Also, alumni who have already voted should check if their name is still registered,” he concluded.

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