WHY PRESIDENT WADE?
WHY PRESIDENT WADE?
By Chika Onyeani, June 27, 2011
"President Abdoulaye Wade can be forgiven because he has accepted the errors of his ways; he has confessed that he made a mistake in conceiving and having the bill to create the post of vice president go to the National Assembly. Maybe he could use the excuse of what happened in the last four days in Senegal to reevaluate his need to run for a third term."
"If the Senegalese come out en masse to ask me to quit, I will go. There won't be a revolution, or a coup d'etat." That was what President Abdoulaye Wade said on April 22, 2011, in which he vowed to quit office if confronted by mass popular protests. President Wade had earlier rejected comparison between him and what were going on in Tunisia and Egypt, saying, ""The difference between us and Tunisia and Egypt is that I actually want people to demonstrate." As fate would have it, President Wade got his wishes on June 23, 2011, when violent protests erupted in front of the National Assembly by opposition forces that were protesting against President Wade's attempt to change the Senegalese constitution, and introduce the post of a vice president. However, it is not understandable whether this is the kind of protests that Mr. Wade was praying for, because its final outcome could result in the same fate that the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt suffered - that's being shamefully chased out of office and exiled from the country that they proclaimed to have loved so much. (READ MORE)You received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
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