African Leaders have failed to convince Mr. Gbagbo for Resignation

A delegation of African leaders has seems to be failed to convince serving President Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast to resign following disputed polls.

The group offered him an amnesty if he resigned from the presidency.

Officially there was no response by Mr Gbagbo instead of he is still in the presidential palace. According the UN Mr Gbagbo lost the vote and West African countries have endangered to utilize power if he does not resign.

His opponent, Alassane Ouattara, is globally known as the winner of the 28 November presidential election.

The leaders who gone to Ivory Coast were Benin’s President Boni Yayi, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, on behalf of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga - representing the African Union (AU).

During talks they have assured to Mr Gbagbo a legal amnesty as well as a security that his financial liabilities would be safe, if he resigned from the office.

The delegation moves on to meet Mr Ouattara under the protection of UN peacekeepers and staying in hotel. Afterwards, he said the dialogue was now "finished".

US offer

The US state department said the US could assists Mr Gbagbo make a "Nobel exit" by lifting a travel ban so he could move there.

Since 2002 election the Ivory Coast which is the world's foremost cocoa producer has been divided into clashes but the post November election was the real chance to unite to the chaos country.

Mr Ouattara was primarily declared the winner by the country's election commission, a verdict backed by the UN, which assisted for organizing the poll.

But the Constitutional Council, headed by an ally of Mr Gbagbo, said he had won, quoting misdeeds in the north which is controlled by past rebels sustaining Mr Ouattara.

Both men have been on oath as president.