AA / Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
Ousmane Sonko, leader of African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (Pastef, opposition), expressed Thursday his support for Malian President Assimi Goita, whose country is in the grip of a serious security crisis.
Head of the list of the Yewwi Askan Wi (Yaw) coalition for the legislative elections of July 31, which saw his coalition win 56 seats, hosted a press briefing to take stock of these elections.
“I take the liberty of congratulating our Malian brothers for telling them that they make us proud to encourage them to stay in this wake, to encourage President Assimi Goita who has not lost face,” the opponent said on Thursday. and mayor of the city of Ziguinchor (south of the country).
It’s those who wanted to humiliate him who today have to go to Bamako to eat fonio, so he has nothing to be ashamed of.
“We tell him that he must continue to stay very close to his people because in politics there is only this reality: you have to do politics for your people. May he never turn away from his people, may he never let himself be taken in by political speeches (…) They will win this war against the jihadist gangrene by the grace of God and the determination of Malians and by the efforts of all Africans,” he continued in his nearly two-clock speech.
More than limiting himself to words, the leader of Pastef who, on the occasion, announced his candidacy for the presidential election of February 2024 intends to translate it into action with a military deployment.
“If this problem is not resolved until 2024, if we are elected President of the Republic, we will send troops to support our Malian brothers and put an end to this gangrene”, he promised, regretting that Macky Sall repatriated the few Senegalese elements who were in Mali as part of the Minusma.
“Let them hold on and remain in the dignity that we know them and which was professed in the charter of Manden”, ended up saying the outgoing deputy who will not be from the next legislature to install because the rejection of the list of Yaw incumbents in the legislative elections.
Inspector of taxes and domains removed from the public service in August 2016, presidential candidate of 2019 (came 3rd), Ousmane Sonko (50 years old) has become a major player on the political scene with an anti-imperialist discourse that hangs above all on the youth level.
His summons to the gendarmerie for a supposed rape case accused by an employee of a beauty salon had been at the origin of the bloody events of March 2021 with 14 deaths.
His supporters saw it as an attempt to dismiss him from the 2024 presidential election, for which the desire to run for a third term is attributed to President Macky Sall.
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