Kablan had served as Vice-President since 2017
ABIDJAN, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ivory Coast’s Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned.
His resignation follows the sudden death of the Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly last week.
The secretary-general of the Ivory Coast presidency, Patrick Achi, said that Kablan Duncan, was leaving “for personal reasons.”
The vice-president had put in his resignation letter to President Alassane Ouattara in February, he sasid.
“After several communications, the last of which took place on Tuesday 7 July, 2020, the president of the republic took note of his resignation and proceeded to sign the decree terminating Daniel Kablan Duncan,” Achi said in a statement.
Kablan was appointed as vice-president in 2017, the first to occupy the new position created by a new constitution the previous year following a referendum.
He had previously served as prime minister.
Coulibaly, 61, died in the capital Abidjan, on July 9. He returned home on July 2 after a two-month absence during which period he was receiving medical treatment in France.
He became unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and was taken to a hospital where he passed away. — NNN-AGENCIES