Icheoku says the hold-over president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo must, should and have to go and without any negotiated pre-conditions whatsoever. To accommodate such will only succeed in bolstering and encouraging other sprouting Mwai Kibakis and Robert Mugabes of Africa to always reject the will of their people, the electorates and refuse to cede power when voted out.
So far ECOWAS is following the Ivorien political impasse as is expected of any regional power bloc or pressure group and must now that the de-facto president Gbagbo has thumbed his nose on them, follow through with their threat of force. What is needed now is for their diplomats to lobby the United States of America and France for logistics and weapons to do the job that needs to be done and immediately. Gbagbo's threat of taking foreign nationals living in Ivory Coast hostage or expelling diplomatic staff is a no brainier and must not operate to attenuate the military option.
This sit-tight wanna-be scumbag has been in power for 10 long years and Icheoku wonders what else he wants to prove therein in Abidjan; except as he shamelessly intoned there are other African leaders who have been in power for ages without legitimacy and you now see what is driving his obstinacy and refusal to yield power. He just wants to become another African henchman in the mold of Hosni Mubarak, Moummar Ghaddafi, Robert Mugabe and of late Mwai Kibaki. A highly noted Mafiaoso once said, never make a threat unless you are willing and capable of carrying it through; so ECOWAS chairman President Jonathan of Nigeria must now show cause to remind Gbagbo that if only Sadaam Hussein had listened to international entreaties to quit, may be he would be alive today and on an exile somewhere, living out his old age. But dictators everywhere always believe that somehow they will extricate themselves from any given woven yarn.
Icheoku calls on ECOWAS to immediately fire some warning shots across the bow of former president Gbagbo today. Or does Gbagbo need a direct talking, unscripted Olusegun Obasanjo to be sent to him to drum the message right into his cranium before he can understand the seriousness and urgency of the time. Icheoku calls on ECOMOG and even the CIA to take this suicidal power-hungry maniac out now and not allow him take down Ivory Coast with him into the abyss! Gbagbo must go and now and unconditionally without any landing cushion or parachute!
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