Thierry Tanoh

It was rumoured that the threat of financial or tax probes hung over Thierry Tanoh and Jean-Louis Billon the most likely younger alternatives to Bédié as candidate for the opposition Parti démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI)...

We hear that Thierry Tanoh a former IFC staffer and managing director at Ecobank until he was sacked in 2014 is also said to be interested in the job (AC Vol 55 No 14 )...

Activists backing younger politicians such as Jean-Louis Billon or even Thierry Tanoh may voice dissent...

) The former ministers Thierry Tanoh and Jean-Louis Billon are the names most often cited and the latter certainly seeks to present the PDCI as a 'team' (AC Vol 60 No 7 Electoral arithmetic)...

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...