Kouadio Konan Bertin (KKB)

As long as he is at the helm there is no hope of renewal which is why a host of younger politicians including the losing presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin (known as KKB) have left (AC Vol 61 No 20 Ouattara leads in a perilous poll)...

All contenders can tap into significant wells of support in various districts of the sprawling Abidjan conurbation with its 8 million or so inhabitants but Bédié could lose some of the younger PDCI electorate to his party's occasional dissident Kouadio Konan Bertin now running as an independent...

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...

Nor does PDCI dissenter Kouadio Konan Bertin who ran and lost as an independent in Port Bouët (AC Vol 57 No 9 Parties to many disputes)...

PDCI former youth leader Kouadio Konan Bertin has also criticised the Daoukro Appeal and does not believe that the RDR will ever accept a PDCI person as RHDP contender in 2020...

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)...

Third came Kouadio Konan Bertin the young dissident from the once-omnipotent Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI) who got just under 4% (AC Vol 56 No 2 Ouattara looks at second term)...

After months of rumblings four leading figures parted company with Bédié in protest: former Foreign Minister Amara Essy; the ex-Prime Minister and former leader of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Charles Konan Banny; a former Vice-President of the National Assembly Jérôme Kablan Brou; and a former leader of the PDCI youth wing Kouadio Konan Bertin (AC Vol 56 No 2 Ouattara looks at second term)...

Then there is Kouadio Konan Bertin ('KKB') 42 National Assembly member for the Parti démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire and the former leader of its youth wing...

Konan Bédié backs ADO's candidacy but Kouadio Konan Bertin the focal point of the party's younger generation has declared his intention to stand (AC Vol 54 No 8 Boycotts and masks)...