The former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo paid a visit to the Me region, particularly to the town of Adzope, 102 km north of Abidjan.
“Soro Guillaume (the former president of the National Assembly of Cote d’Ivoire, currently in exile) must return. When he returns, there will be no more problems on his side, in any case,” said Mr. Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at the Adzope stadium in front of his supporters
Mr. Gbagbo said he had “heard good news” that Charles Ble Goude, who was with him at the International Criminal Court (ICC), had returned. For him, “this is a very good thing” and as he speaks, he must be in Guiberoua (West), in his native region.
He welcomed the fact that the case of the return of the former leader of the “Young Patriots,” Charles Ble Goude, “is a closed chapter,” adding that “now there remains Soro Guillaume,” who has been in exile for about three years. Mr. Ble Goude, the president of the opposition Pan-African Congress for Justice and Equality of the Peoples (COJEP), returned to the country on November 26, 2022.
“What is he (Guillaume Soro) doing there? He must be told to return,” Gbagbo said, insisting that “Soro returns to his country, because often we say yes, it is a child who is rude, he prepares such and such a coup, but he did not prepare a coup, he made a coup against me.
“He started a civil war in Ouagadougou with the complicity of Burkina and other countries. When I met him, I called him, I said come, we’ll talk, we discussed and I told him so that you have confidence, let’s go to your godfather, the president of Burkina Faso. And there we signed the Ouagadougou agreement,” Gbagbo recalled.
The former Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo, president of the opposition African People’s Party–Cote d’Ivoire (PPA-CI), said he had however “appointed him Prime Minister (and) he was surprised. So there are many ways to kill political conflicts.
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