Quand un homme veut plier la République à son obsession( Par Amadou Mbengue)
We are no longer in the alert phase. We are no longer in the question phase. We are now in the accusation phase. What is happening today in Senegal is a serious and deliberate deviation. The Republic is being put under pressure not by a global economic crisis, not by a war, not by a natural disaster, but by one man's obsession with supreme power.
Ousmane Sonko is no longer a Prime Minister serving the nation. He has become the nerve center of an institutional imbalance. He drains the energy of the state. He monopolizes the political space. He polarizes society. He transforms every debate into a personal confrontation. He imposes the rhythm of his ambition on an entire country.
This is no longer a political project. It is a personal trajectory imposed on the Republic.
By challenging a final court decision, by seeking to reopen a closed case, the Prime Minister is not fighting for justice. He is fighting against limits. Yet limits are the very foundation of democracy. A man who cannot tolerate limits is not fit to govern a Republic. He is tempted to bend them, circumvent them, dominate them.
But the moral scandal reaches its peak in the carefully maintained silence surrounding the rape accusation made by a young girl. The country has never obtained a fully confronted legal truth. The alleged perpetrator was tried in absentia. And yet, this case is erased from official discourse, drowned out by victimhood rhetoric and militant agitation.
This is not an oversight. It is a leak.
This is not a blunder. It's a strategy.
This is not an isolated injustice. It is a moral aberration.
A man who claims to represent a break with the past cannot build his legitimacy on avoiding such a serious accusation. A man who claims to govern in the name of the people cannot demand justice for himself while leaving a woman alone to face suspicion and silence.
This reveals a harsh truth. The morality invoked yesterday was merely a tool for conquest. Once power is attained, it becomes a liability.
Ousmane Sonko had nevertheless asserted that the project he was leading was not that of one man. He said that any member of his camp could implement it. He rejected the cult of personality. He denounced the idea of a providential man. He proclaimed the primacy of the collective.
Today, those words appear for what they were: a tactical speech, a useful fiction. For if the project were truly collective, the country would not be hanging on a single name. If the project were truly shared, the President of the Republic, drawn from the same camp, would govern without being constantly overshadowed. If the project were truly greater than the individual, the individual would know how to step aside.
But it does not disappear. It asserts itself. It occupies. It dominates. It prepares.
The truth is now undeniable. Ousmane Sonko's obsession is to become President of the Republic. Everything is subordinate to this ambition: the government, the justice system, public debate, the streets, the tensions, the silences. Senegal is forced to wait while one man forges his destiny.
This obsession poses a direct threat to institutional stability. It fosters a permanent rivalry at the highest levels of government. It weakens presidential authority. It paralyzes government action. It keeps the country in a state of chronic instability.
Meanwhile, the real country is suffocating. Families can no longer live with dignity. Young people have no future. Universities are in a state of perpetual crisis. Scholarships are delayed. Farmers are abandoned. Hospitals and schools lack resources. The Senegalese people are not asking for a legal drama or an ego battle. They are asking for the means to live, study, work, and receive healthcare.
To this drift is added an even deeper problem. Senegal is sliding towards a republic of friends, clubs, and clans. Networks are replacing rules. Loyalty is replacing competence. Silence is becoming a political currency. Criticism is equated with treason. The state is confused with a faction.
This is the slow death of the Republic.
Faced with this situation, the President of the Republic can no longer hide behind time or caution. He must put an end to this charade. He must reiterate a simple and non-negotiable truth: the Prime Minister is not the center of the Republic; the government is not a presidential stepping stone; the judiciary is not a career tool; and the State belongs to no one.
To fail to act is to accept that the Republic will be captured by individual ambition. To fail to act is to betray the mandate received from the people. To fail to act is to let history tip in the wrong direction.
The late Kéba Mbaye said it with a gravity that resonates today like a verdict: "The Senegalese are tired." Tired of backroom deals. Tired of messianic pronouncements. Tired of special privileges. Tired of seeing morality invoked and trampled in the same breath.
This text is an act of rupture. It does not seek consensus. It calls for a civic awakening. It establishes a red line. The Republic is not negotiable. Justice is not selective. The people must not be held hostage by the obsession of one man.
If this trend continues, then it will no longer be a political mistake. It will be a historical error.
And history never excuses men who wanted to bend a nation to their ambition.
Amadou Mbengue, known as Vieux, is the Secretary General of the Rufisque departmental coordination and a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the PIT/Senegal.
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