BBY's wrangles are a gift to its opponents such as former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall who is already on the stump...
Khalifa Sall is also likely to benefit if as expected Ousmane Sonko nominally his partner in the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance is not allowed to stand (AC Vol 64 No 11 Sonko's trial is Sall's challenge)...
With uncertainty over Ousmane Sonko's future the 2024 polls are shaping up to be a four-way battle between Seck Khalifa Sall Karim Wade and Prime Minister Amadou Ba who last week was anointed by outgoing President Sall as candidate for the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) party...
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The move clears the way for former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade to stand...
Khalifa Sall and Wade were prevented from running in the 2019 elections because of convictions for misuse of municipal funds and an unpaid fine respectively (AC Vol 60 No 4 Macky wants first round KO)...
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It could increase the chances of Khalifa Sall former Dakar mayor and Karim Wade son of former president Abdoulaye Wade who stand to pick up Sonko's support...
Now both Karim Wade and Khalifa Sall no relation to President Macky Sall are both free to run for the presidency although they have both been convicted for corruption and then pardoned...
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Just-concluded National Dialogue talks saw the government accept constitutional changes to permit former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade the son of ex-president Abdoulaye Wade to stand...
On the political front compromise remains elusive though former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall Sonko's co-leader in the Yewwi Askan Wi alliance has been taking part in the national dialogue and Macky Sall has promised a statement after these talks end...
One is former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall who is discreetly positioning himself as a responsible alternative contender eschewing Sonko-style demagoguery...
In local and legislative elections in 2022 Seck's Rewmi party lost control of Thiès Senegal's third city and for decades Seck's political fiefdom to the opposition alliance of Yewwi Askan Wi led by Ousmane Sonko and Khalifa Sall (AC Vol 63 No 3 Sall sags at polls)...
Last year's municipal and legislative polls brought sweeping gains for the opposition particularly the Yewwi Askan Wi (YAW) alliance led by Sonko and former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall...
He hopes to woo a slice of Wade's traditional voters who may not like their still influential leader's alliance with the Sonko-Khalifa Sall camp...
If anything the opposite has happened: people have become highly sceptical of such accusations given Sall's efforts to eliminate political competitors by using Senegal's legal system most notably Abdoulaye Wade's son Karim and the former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall...