Ex-Senegal PM meets Wade again
February 1, 2007
afrol News, 31 January – Idrissa
Seck, the former Prime Minister of Senegal, for the second time held
closed-door discussions with President Abdoulaye Wade at state house
today. Mr Seck told the press that he still did not finish private
discussion with President Wade. He is expected to meet Mr Wade again,
although the date has not been announced.
Some days back, Mr Seck surprisingly
met and discussed with President Wade. And after a four hour
discussion, Mr Wade announced that Mr Seck had agreed to join his
ruling Parti Democratique Senegalaise (PDS). Until his sacking as the
Prime Minister, Mr Seck was the number 2 man of PDS.
The spokesperson of the Muslim Tidianiyya sect, Abdul Aziz Sy, was said
to have brokered peace between President Wade and Mr Seck.
After being sacked as the Prime Minister in 2004, Mr Seck was arrested
and jailed for several months, accused of financial graft as well as
threatening national security. He was later cleared of all the charges.
He had maintained that his troubles with the government started as soon
as he had declared his intentions to run President while still serving
as the Premier.
Mr Seck has been blamed for being tight-lipped over the details of his
meeting with President Wade. He promised to brief the press on the
issue a day after the first meeting but that was never the case, as the
briefing was postponed sine die.
It is believed that by having the likes of Mr Seck in his camp,
President Wade is expected to consolidate his margin in the 25 February
presidential elections.
In another development, the Senegalese opposition reportedly has been
planning to host another demonstration against the postponing of
legislative elections on Friday. Interior Ministry officials are said
to be contemplating over whether to issue permit to the demonstrating
opposition.
Despite their failure to secure a permit, opposition supporters led by
their leaders, took to the streets of Dakar last Saturday to show their
anger over the handling of electoral affairs. The strikers were
confronted by the baton-wielding police who beat and arrested some of
them.
The opposition described the police move as a violation of their
democratic and constitutional rights. But police blamed the opposition
for inviting trouble for themselves because they should not have
demonstrated if they were denied the permit.
By staff writer
© afrol News
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