Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo's party contests the conviction of its officials

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Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo's party contests the conviction of its officials  The Ivorian justice system sentenced Damana Adia, also known as Pickass, and Koua Justin, two officials from the PPA-CI, to ten years in prison without bail for public disorder and incitement to insurrection related to the pre-election violence of 2020.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/02/13/ivory-coast-laurent-gbagbos-party-contests-the-conviction-of-its-officials  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00The Ivorian justice system in Abidjan centers the mana adya alias Picas Ankuwa Justen of

00:07the African People's Party of Côte d'Ivoire to 10 years in prison for public disorder

00:12and incitement to insurrection related to 2020 pre-election violence.

00:17The Secretary-General of Loramba Bo's party criticizes this as a political maneuver by

00:23the government to weaken its faction.

00:27The African People's Party of Côte d'Ivoire is outraged by these convictions, which are

00:34tailor-made to keep the heads underwater of executives who are important in the system

00:40of President Loramba Bo, who is the African People's Party of Côte d'Ivoire candidate

00:46in the presidential election of October 2025.

00:53The ruling party is trying to eliminate all opponents who could stand in its way in its

01:00quest for eternal power.

01:05On the other hand, the Ivorian public prosecutor maintains that the scheduling of the trial

01:11of Mr. Dabana Picas and Mr. Ankuwa Justen and their co-defendants, which comes just

01:16a few months before the 2025 presidential election, was not done with the electoral

01:22calendar in mind.

01:24The lawyers of the comrades who were sentenced at first instance have appealed, and we are

01:30going to support them, and we are going to mobilize to tell the authorities to stop imprisoning

01:37African People's Party of Côte d'Ivoire leaders.

01:40But in the meantime, we are not going to let ourselves be diverted from our objective,

01:46which is to prepare for the election of President Loramba Bo.

01:51In addition, the Secretary General of Loramba Bo's party said that the opposition was working

01:56together to respond to a possible candidacy by President Elassane Ouattara, even if it

02:01was not yet time to talk about a single opposition candidacy.

02:05It should be noted that the former Ivorian president, who is serving a 20-year sentence

02:10for the robbery of the Central Bank of West African states, has been removed from the

02:15electoral roll.

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