That could be a reason to appoint one or two dissident members of the outgoing administration such as Aly Ngouille Ndiaye...
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Among other contenders are the former Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall and the former premier and Rewmi (nation in Wolof) party chief Idrissa Seck and erstwhile members of the administration who have fallen out with the president or have been sacked: such as Aly Ngouille Ndiaye and Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne...
Support for Ba will be fractured by former ministers Aly Ngouille Ndiaye and El Hadji Mamadou Diao and former prime minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne...
Aly Ngouille Ndiaye resigned as agriculture minister in protest at Ba's selection while the mayor of Kolda El Hadji Mamadou Diao (better known as Mame Boye Diao) declared his own presidential candidacy...
In November last year Aly Ngouille Ndiaye Senegal's former Minister for Mines and now Interior Minister announced an inquiry into the finances of both Y'en a marre (the hip-hop-driven movement which opposed Abdoulaye Wade's failed bid for a third term in 2012 and historically the reason why Sall is in power today) and its foreign supporters some of whom have been forced to stop working in Senegal...
Letters written in May 2012 by Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil to Senegal's then Oil and Energy Minister (now at Industry and Mines) Aly Ngouille Ndiaye and seen by Africa Confidential show that the company had been asked to pay a US$1...