Cheikh Oumar Diagne sur le plateau de Seneweb
On the Seneweb platform, Cheikh Oumar Diagne launched a scathing critique of the current administration's governance. Expressing both disappointment and disengagement, he denounced what he sees as the political drift of the Diomaye-Sonko duo, which he claims is moving away from the aspirations of the Senegalese people.
Cheikh Oumar Diagne observes with bitterness that the promised project of radical change appears bogged down in party machinery and leadership squabbles. For him, this is "a lack of respect for the people." He believes President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and his Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko should have preserved the sacred unity of their partnership. "It's a major disappointment. Out of respect for the people, Diomaye and Sonko should have avoided separating in this manner within just two years," he insisted.
He argues that this ongoing "petty squabbling" honors neither the men involved nor the state. He emphatically recalls that the two leaders had promised Senegalese citizens the President's complete political disinterest once elected—a commitment that now seems trampled by the resurgence of partisan agendas. Diagne's analysis is unsparing: if politics is taking over again, it's due to a failure to deliver tangible results elsewhere. "We must simply understand that the economic and social agenda has failed, which is why they have returned to politics," he analyzes.
This predominance of the electoral agenda is allegedly happening at the expense of public action. Diagne advocates for a return to institutional rigor: it is the state, through its ministries and concrete achievements, that should define the administration's record, not coalitions he now deems disqualified.
This was perhaps the harshest point of his remarks. Cheikh Oumar Diagne announced his withdrawal from the dynamics of the presidential coalition, which he accuses of having lost its soul by opening its doors to opportunists from all sides. He describes a structure that has become a "catch-all" or "garbage dump coalition," welcoming "thieves and people without values."
"I don't know what Diomaye is cooking up with this party, but I know the coalition is no longer what it was. That's why I am not part of it; I have disengaged," he stated to justify his refusal to engage in any sabotage.
By also pointing a finger at the Apte coalition, which he links to figures from the old system, Cheikh Oumar Diagne refuses to let the idea of diluted responsibility take hold. For him, time is running out, and the country needs its leaders to focus on substantive issues: science, the economy, and spiritual values.
Yandé Diop
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