Thierry Tanoh

Some speculate that he might copy Malaysia's nonagenarian Mahathir Mohamad and promise to stand aside after a year or two in favour of a vice-presidential running mate from the younger generation – such as Thierry Tanoh or Jean-Louis Billon...

Will the likes of Thierry Tanoh and Billon wait until Bédié finally gives up the political game...

These were hitherto seen as the RDR's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly or Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko and the PDCI vice-president Daniel Kablan Duncan or Energy Minister Thierry Tanoh or even the increasingly estranged Parliamentary Speaker Guillaume Soro (nominally RDR) (AC Vol 59 No 3 Jockeying for position and Vol 59 No 14 Move over grandad)...

Conveniently for their cabinet status almost all the PDCI ministers were in fact retained including Thierry Tanoh Alain-Richard Donwahi and Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani but under a different title...

Its octogenarian leader ex-President Henri Konan Bédié has already managed to sideline the young talent in his own party – including bright stars like Kouadio Konan Bertin Jean-Louis Billon and Thierry Tanoh – but he is clear about one thing: the next presidential candidate preferably running under an RHDP flag will come from his party's ranks...

Rising PDCI star Thierry Tanoh is moving house too going from Presidential Secretary for Economic and Trade Affairs to a ministerial post at Oil and Renewable Energy (AC Vol 56 No 22 Ouattara walks it)...

None of the business-oriented PDCI hopefuls (Jean-Louis Billon who lost his ministerial post at Commerce Brou and Thierry Tanoh) has a seat in Parliament...

One is the rapidly rising Thierry Tanoh...

Symbols of a new generation of contenders include former youth leader and dissident Kouadio Konan Bertin Commerce Minister Jean-Louis Billon and former Ecobank boss Thierry Tanoh (AC Vol 55 No 6 Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house)...

The self-effacing but effective Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan is said to be on the way out as his place is supposedly reserved for Thierry Tanoh the Harvard-trained economist who had a meteoric career that took him to the top of the pan-African Ecobank before he was sacked as Chief Executive last year (AC Vol 55 No 6 Tanoh goes as Ecobank cleans house)...

For example the Deputy Secretary General to the Presidency Thierry Tanoh was sacked as Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank in March 2014 after a stormy extraordinary general meeting of shareholders heard a damning report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on breaches of governance standards (AC Vol 54 No 19 Boardroom battles hit Ecobank)...