Less than twenty-four hours after the debate proposal made to him by the Prime Minister and leader of the Pastef party, Amadou Ba said “Yes” to Ousmane Sonko. The representative of the “Jamm ak njariñ” electoral coalition, Zahra Iyane Thiam, who made the announcement yesterday, indicated that her mentor gives him the opportunity to determine the date and time of this exchange.

The proposal of the Prime Minister and President of the ruling party, Pastef, made to his predecessor and former candidate of Benno bokk yaakaar (Bby) in the last presidential election, Amadou Ba, did not fall on deaf ears. Indeed, the head of the national list of the electoral coalition « Jamm ak njariñ », Amadou Ba, is ready to lend himself to this invitation of the leader and head of the national list of the Pastef party.

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Through one of his close associates, namely the former Minister of Microfinance and Solidarity Economy, Zahra Iyane Thiam, the former head of government under Macky Sall gave his future opposite number the opportunity to determine the date and time of this exchange between the two politicians.

Reacting to Ousmane Sonko’s offer to Amadou Ba, the former minister and ex-Director General of the Senegalese Agency for the Promotion of Exports (Asepex), Zahra Iyane Thiam, declared yesterday on Radio Futurs médias (Rfm): « President Amadou Ba is ready to respond to this invitation. He has given him the latitude to set the day, place and time, if he considers that this is his priority and main concern. »

However, in the eyes of Mrs. Thiam, for their alliance, « the priority concern should be, as President Amadou Ba indicated, the urgent management of concerns such as what we see from Tamba to Podor, via Bakel and Matam, compatriots who live in difficult conditions with the overflowing of the Senegal River. »

The representative of Amadou Ba’s « Jamm ak njariñ » Coalition continues to be precise: « Now, if for Ousmane Sonko, the priority is to debate with President Amadou Ba, of course we will debate with him. What would Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko gain from debating with President Amadou Ba who did not ask? »

The Prime Minister and President of the Pastef party, Ousmane Sonko, took the pretext of the first press conference of the leader of the « New Responsibility » and head of the national list of the electoral coalition « Jamm ak njariñ », Amadou Ba, to invite him to a debate. « I am therefore offering him a great opportunity to explain himself to the People: a contradictory public debate between him and I on the economic and financial situation in which they have plunged the country and on his personal responsibility », declared the leader of the Pastef party, Ousmane Sonko.
By Justin GOMIS / justin@lequotidien.sn