Politics has manoeuvres, tricks, and even marvels that only the experienced and seasoned can understand! Since the rise of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko in the political arena, I have been writing about the current political events in Senegal. I am pleased to assure you that my prophecy, without ambiguity, has actually been fulfilled, as well as the prophecy of a group of Senegalese pollsters, political experts and others regarding the 2024 presidential elections. I had written in an article of mine on June 14, 2023, and published in many magazines, newspapers, and on online platforms, the following: “The recent protests have shown in an unambiguous way that it is very impossible to organize presidential elections in Senegal in 2024 without the participation of the leader.” Ousmane Sonko (i.e. Pastif Party), unless it is organized outside Senegalese soil or in the imagination of some supporters of the ruling party or via WhatsApp. The only person who does not have the right to participate in it is President Malki Sall. He must inevitably and without procrastination return the rights to their owners, such as Mr. Karim Wade and Mr. Khalifa Ababakar Sall, and release all political prisoners.
Indeed, it was not a prophecy that was difficult for the “political mind” to assume its fulfillment except for the recent emergency events when the government of dictator Macky Sall succeeded in putting leader Ousmane Sonko behind bars. This has directly resulted in disturbances, doubts, confusion, sadness and sorrow in the ranks of the Pastif Party, and a silent darkness has fallen over the minds of many of this party’s supporters regarding the future of its leader and the Pastif project, especially when the ruling regime dissolved the party and began relentlessly pursuing the Pastifians in every valley. He called and put them in prisons and tortured and abused many of them. In the wake of these painful events and attacks that exceeded the limits of reason and law, I also wrote - with complete faith and certainty - an article in which I said: “The war is won by the one who is most prepared for it. There is no shame in losing a battle, but the whole shame is in losing the war. The battle is, in fact, underway between the cunning president and the deceitful opposition leader, the cunning Mackie and the deceitful Othman, and “the war is a hoax.”
No one thinks, in the current situation, that the science of deception and political extractivism has overthrown the science of despicable deception and deception. Ousmane Sonko and his “political twin” are out of prison after being a hot potato down Macky Sall’s throat. The latter swallowed the Pastev leader and was unable to swallow it. Rather, it remained an unpalatable morsel in his throat, and an insurmountable obstacle in a dead end on all sides. It was necessary for Macky Sall to admit his failure and complete failure in all his political maneuvers and tactics. All that remained for him was to reconsider all the political cards he had played with until then. Rather, all that remained for him was to cross them all out, throw them to the ground, and come up with new cards and a new look. This time, the focus of the game will not be his cunning and plotting against the Pastev Party and its leader, but how will he, his family, and some of the scoundrels of his gang be spared after the expiration of his term on April 2, 2024 AD. Leaving the presidential palace without securing himself, his family, and some of his agents in the police, the judiciary, and some state agencies is the same as daring his life and sentencing himself and his family to death by hanging. It was necessary for Macky Sall to impose the “special amnesty” plan (amnistie), which in fact was in the interest of the two conflicting parties, I mean the ruling party and the dissolved Pastev Party, to exit once and for all from the political crisis that had strangled the country and undermined its foundations for a long time. Hence, one wonders whether the victims, the injured, and those who suffered the scourge of prisons during this political struggle between the ruling regime and the Pastev Party are actually the real losers, or is the promising result that looms on the horizon and for which we are waiting, the high price that was inevitable to pay? From this standpoint, I believe that the failed and despicable maneuvers carried out by Macky Sall’s government have certainly helped me understand Vladimir Lenin’s famous quote: “In politics there is no difference between betrayal due to stupidity or betrayal intentionally and calculated.”
What everyone should be aware of is that the outcomes of the political game in these presidential elections scheduled to be held on March 24, 2024, have become as clear as the moon on the night of the full moon. Djomay's victory is beyond doubt, and Amadou Bah's loss is beyond doubt. Among the indicators of Jumay's victory are matters that are hidden only from the short-sighted and the short-sighted, we mention a few of them:
- Macky Sall imposed the "special amnesty", the main reason behind it was to escape him and his family from going to prison after the end of his term and to evade the sword of revenge that the Pastif Party had raised around his neck in the event that he won the upcoming presidential elections.
- Macky Sall's refusal and failure to lead Amadou Bah's convoy to run alongside him in the electoral round in the field, as well as his lack of victory in his statements, all of this constitutes the greatest evidence of his complete certainty of the huge loss that will befall his weak candidate on the evening of the results being released and the newspapers flying. There is no doubt that Amadou Bah, the billionaire whose wealth is questionable, will roll in the dirt before his rival, Bachir Gumay Faye, an honest and humble man, the hope of the youth for the desired change.
- All the headquarters of the APR party have been closed at the present time and have not been placed in the hands of its alleged candidate, I mean Amadou Bah, so that he can benefit from them and use them as a starting point and preparation for the elections and as a focus for amassing militias and supplying them with batons, knives and cannons, as we were familiar with from the party previously.
- The attack and counter-attack that we see day and night in the ranks of the APR party, some loyal to this, and those to that, a fierce war between its cadres and their henchmen, all of this is considered another indicator that conclusively indicates the weakness of their disobedience, the discord of their hearts, and the dispersion of their resolve!!!
Based on all of the above, it is useful to mention that the entire world is closely following the current events in Senegal, because these presidential elections are of utmost historical, fateful, and inevitable importance on various levels.Whether at the national, regional or global level, these are elections that emerge in the collective imagination in Senegal and in Africa in particular as the decisive factor between the choice of communication or estrangement, between the choice of freedom or subordination, between the choice of backwardness and poverty or progress and sophistication, between the choice of joining the ranks of modernity or living on poverty. on her. In fact, they are elections in which the hope lies of an entire people who want to change their painful living reality. Yes, they are elections capable of extricating Senegal from the predicament of backwardness, from the tunnel of extreme poverty into which it has been thrown, and from the economic destitution that has been imposed on it and in whose embrace it has tottered since it achieved alleged independence in 1960 AD. In return, it can open up to its children new horizons to shine and rise towards the sky of growth and economic prosperity. This is due to the valuable resources that its soil contains and the available human competencies it also possesses. It is time for the sons of this people to raise their heads in strength and honor, as well as for the rest of the people of African countries, and not hide from the developed peoples for the sake of claiming a false misfortune that befell their alleged grandfather, Ham, son of Noah. I may also point out here that one of the peculiarities and features of these elections is that they are unprecedented of their kind. For the first time in the history of Senegal, the people will vote for a clearly defined project that has been presented to them over the years, the slogan of which is: “It is time to return what everyone has in common to everyone.” . Moreover, neither Sheikh So-and-so nor the Allan tribe, nor the method of Zaid or Amr’s group, were likely to prevail in these elections. The people and only the people will choose and decide on the matter and no one else. From this perspective, do we have the right to say that the Senegalese people have awakened from their deep slumber and have reached the age of majority and maturity in choosing their governors and political representatives appropriately, with complete freedom and responsibility? Is this political maturity of the proud Senegalese people consistent with what former French President Charles de Gaulle alluded to when he said: “I have come to the conviction that politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians?” Do we also have the right to say that these elections will be a true and realistic translation of the Senegalese democratic experience in its highest form and level in Senegal’s modern history? There is no doubt that there are many and varied questions raised by these unique elections, but there is not enough space to resolve their limitations and provide sound and realistic explanations. What I believe is that the APR party's cycle of exercising power has been completed, and its star has declined and been obliterated. The people have suffered scourges that they did not suffer under all previous regimes from Senghor to Abdallah Wade. For everything, if there is a decrease... no one should be tempted by the good life. Our time is in the morning. Isn't the morning near? I picked up the pens and dried the newspapers. A new page, God willing, in the book of Senegal will open, and on that day the believers will rejoice in their victory, and our state will speak out, saying: It was truly a long, difficult, painful, and calamitous adventure. Here we are turning the page with joy, happiness, and overwhelming joy that appears in our faces, making us forget the bitterness of pain that we endured through its bitterness and woes. This long, arduous walk for freedom. It is only a few hours and the morning will dawn upon us and a new day will appear upon us and a new Senegal, in which its people will live their promising and promised days, their lost glory, and especially their trampled glory that they have longed for so long. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire once said: “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” What is striking is that these elections represent, in the eyes of many Senegalese, the revolution of truth against falsehood, the revolution of justice against tyranny, the revolution of the nobles against the scoundrels... And let us not forget the credit for whoever was the main reason for the sacrifice and valor, I mean the valiant leader and the heroic master, Othman Sonko Muslim. Perhaps the saying of Charles de Gaulle is true: “The true politician is the one who is willing to take risks.”
In the end, what we desire and hope with all our hearts is for a solid building to be built on the ruins of this corrupt and dying system that will establish a strong, modern state with its institutions in which rotten ethnicities are dissolved, social cohesion and cohesion is generated, wealth is managed efficiently, justly and equitably, and produces progress and economic prosperity. Long live Senegal, Senegal forever.