These included Minister of the Civil Service and Modernisation of the Administration Anne Désirée Ouloto; Minister of Transport Amadou Koné; Minister of Defence Téné Birahima Ouattara (known as ‘Photocopie') the president's younger brother; and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani...

Another of the praise-singers Agriculture Minister Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani went on one of Côte d'Ivoire's commercial television stations saying that he thought Ouattara should still run...

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...