After President Macky Sall announced in July that he would not seek a third term 11 contenders for the presidential nomination of his Alliance Pour la République (APR) and the wider ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance came forward before the uncharismatic but competent Amadou Ba a former finance and foreign minister was chosen by Sall on 9 September...
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...
The governing Benno Bokk Yaakar alliance is now scrambling to choose a succession candidate with prime minister Amadou Ba the early favourite...
' Prime Minister Amadou Ba has promised an inquiry after video footage showed unidentified thugs chasing protesters alongside the police but this is unlikely to reassure Senegalese since the findings of previous investigations into alleged security force killings have not been published...
But new prime minister Amadou Ba has no margin for error...
The following day came the news that he had appointed a Prime Minister: Amadou Ba a former finance and foreign minister and once considered to be aiming for the presidency (AC Vol 63 No 2)...
Benno's national and Dakar campaign chiefs Aminata Touré and Amadou Ba did not top the polls in their own districts...
To head the list for the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY) alliance President Macky Sall has turned to his former prime minister Aminata 'Mimi' Touré in preference to former foreign and finance minister Amadou Ba...
SideliningSpeculation about the President's plans has only been heightened by his sidelining of likely succession candidates such as former finance and foreign minister Amadou Ba...
Also in Sonko's line of fire is the current minister of Economy Finance and Planning Amadou Ba for having colluded with alleged tax evaders when he was heading the Direction générale des impôts et des domaines (DGID) the tax and revenue authority from 2006 to 2013...