Sonko disputes Prime Minister Lô’s ‘fifth basement’ description
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Seneweb
Former Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, leader of Pastef, says it is not him but an entire idea that is being betrayed. He disputes the formula used by Prime Minister Ahmadou Al Aminou Lô, who describes the country as being in the ‘fifth basement’, and accuses those who have taken over of rapidly degrading the situation, according to Seneweb.
Ousmane Sonko, former prime minister and leader of the Pastef party, rejects the description given by head of government Ahmadou Al Aminou Lô, who places the nation in the ‘fifth basement’. According to Seneweb, he believes the betrayal concerns less his own person than an entire political project and the hope it had raised.
Sonko defends the record of the first two years of the action carried out under his responsibility, a period which, in his view, had restored people’s confidence. He accuses those who took over of having destroyed these gains in very little time, and says the people are stunned.
This stance follows the definitive break announced on 14 November with President Diomaye Faye. The following day, he gathered former senior members of Pastef.
