President Ouattara is a fraud

Governance in IVORYCOAST suffers from dictation, military adventurism and tribal politics. Former president Laurent Gbagbo's resilience and determination to preserve IVORYCOAST and avert major conflict or worse, civil war , was tested by the deepening trend of the use of identity politics by Allassane Ouattara to promote tribal interests.
Events leading to the September 19, 2002 failed coup and transformed into a brutal rebellion show the length to which Ouattara and his allies were willing to go to whip up tribal sentiments for the purpose of gaining political advantage. First it was Mr. Allassane Ouattara’s “They don't want me to be a candidate because I'm from the north and I am a muslim” in his infamous all-die-be-die speech to the north of IVORYCOAST. Then in the later days of the same year, Allassane Ouattara caused a stir with another calamitous choice of words – claiming that the people of the Northern Regions are tired of being second fiddle to the presidency. Implicit in that is for Northerners to stand up for one of their kind. Very disgraceful indeed to hear such words come from someone who want to become leader of the whole of IVORYCOAST. 
Ouattara chose to tap into human’s natural fear about identity and belonging, by cleverly co-opting the ideas of tribal self-identity and superiority. In effect he employed survival tactics along tribal lines by sending signals to the northerners and muslims to take care of one’s own tribe first. The consequences of this is that Ouattara's crusade became less about policies, ideas, measures, programs or good governance, In any advanced society or democracy Ouattara would have never become head of state. However, in IVORYCOAST, Ouattara did not become president over his choice of words, but by how well he passed the tribal political calculus and the wrongful endorsement of the international community. Ouattara is not concerned about the consequences for national development.
The patronizing nature of IVORYCOAST’s politics coupled with the frustration of high unemployment among school graduates and low incomes for workers only create the climate for tribal orientation of politics in the country. Underpinning the need to have one’s own tribesman in the presidency is the overwhelming belief that Ouattara is corrupt and is in it for himself, his cronies and surrogates. President Ouattara has created a system in which you get around only if you know somebody who intends is connected to somebody in government.