Having accrued the solidarity of almost all partner opposition parties and independent candidates, M23, and Y'en a marre, Wade's challenge of the first round of voting did not stand a chance of consideration by his hand-picked constitutional court. It must be understood that this constitutional court did not suddenly evolve to be a respectable body of constitutional sobriety when they rejected Wade's contest of Bignona, Touba, and Kaolack results. Nay, they had no choice. When given a choice between saving their own backside and saving Wade, they chose the former.

Perhaps its poetic justice and great education for dictators like Wade. When you stack the decks of governance with folk from your own ethnicity or family, the tool you use is an enticement of position and emolument. Unless these people you use to estrange the people of Senegal from their own government do so voluntarily and au gratis, it is not clear whether the emoluments and enticement do not command a larger space in the pre-eminent void in their brains. Brains they were born with, moulded by their communities, among their fellow Senegalese.

I thank all opposition parties, M23, Y'en a Marre, and all independent parties, particularly Seck, Niasse, Fall, Dieng, Ndure, and Ndoye, for relying on their highest faculties and save Sall from himself. They must continue to demand and receive fundamental reforms of Senegal's institutions of governance, the vestiges of colonialism that have been transmogrified and pillaged by Wade for his personal gain and fleeting ambitions. Despite Sall's pronouncements. This is because Sall's investment in the presidency will threaten to color his actions and France is close behind. There must be no foreign bases in Senegal, friend or foe. Haruna.

Courtesy: Afribone-CN & AFP




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Le Conseil constitutionnel confirme le second tour entre Wade et Sall 
                            
                            
                              
Le Conseil constitutionnel du Sénégal a donné mardi les résultats définitifs du premier tour de l’élection présidentielle du 26 février qui confirment la tenue d’un second tour le 25 mars entre le président sortant Abdoulaye Wade et son ex-Premier ministre Macky Sall. Le Conseil a rejeté les recours déposés par M. Wade concernant le vote des Sénégalais de l’étranger et dans les villes de Bignona (Casamance, sud), Touba, Mbacké et Kaolack (centre). Macky Sall, écarté des cercles du pouvoir en 2008 et entré depuis en dissidence, a d’ores et déjà recueilli pour le second tour le soutien de la quasi-totalité des candidats écartés au premier tour, dont les trois principaux. Il a également reçu l’appui du M23, du collectif de jeunes "Y’en a marre", ainsi que du célèbre et populaire chanteur Youssou Ndour. La confrontation avec son ex-Premier ministre Macky Sall, qu’il avait fait roi avant de s’en séparer sans ménagement en 2008, constitue un revers pour le président sortant qui, tout au long de sa campagne électorale, s’était déclaré sûr de sa victoire au premier tour, comme en 2007, avec plus de 50% des voix. AFP.




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