Daouda Sidibe, coordinator of the APR Kolda political office, signed a press release read by dakaracta/kolda in which he was outraged by the departure (yesterday) of Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, which he considered “theatrical and clumsy”.
According to him, emergency situations are elsewhere, not “without words”. At the same time, he specifies that the prime minister “has better things to do.”
Should we remind our Prime Minister, formality does not rhyme with efficiency at work. The task is enormous in keeping with your election promises and our impatient fellow citizens, so focus, I borrow from you. Time passes.
Urgent situations are elsewhere and require more concrete actions on your part in order to earn the trust that the majority of our compatriots placed in you on the evening of March 25. It is difficult for you to throw off your opposition garb again, or more precisely, to draw a line between your functions as the head of the government and the head of the party.
We do not talk about matters of state in a grand theater before our activists unless we want to dramatize the noble and exciting mission of government. Mr. Prime Minister, this conflict or confusion of roles risks costing Senegal and the Senegalese dearly, through your fault.
The comments on your clumsy, out of place excursion in the company of your “benefactor”, “support”, Mr. MELENCHON (in the dark moments of your march to power, you said so yourself) should prompt you to review your copy, but no.
My dear prime minister, the statesman’s coat is clearly too wide for your fragile shoulders to the extent that it leads you to trample with your feet the elementary rules that govern the functioning of the state. Senegal, our dear country, knew great statesmen to whom today we owe this legacy of a unique, strong and stable state. You have an obligation to preserve this heritage so that it unfortunately does not go down in history; what a sad fate then.
We do not run the country with arrogance, populism, revenge, intimidation, calculation that poorly hides your unjustified hatred for almost everyone. You spontaneously and shamelessly attack the fundamental pillars of our democracy, namely the press, the judiciary, those who, it should be remembered, fully played their role in a responsible, professional and impeccable manner in your arrival in the supreme judicial power.
A statesman says little or nothing, but acts. For you, the time has come for action rather than words. We are still waiting for concrete moves from you to reduce the cost of living, employment of young people, among other promises to our brave and courageous compatriots who are still waiting for their realization.
Mr. Prime Minister, enter the big theater less and less often, avoid as much as possible the microphones and screens of the opponents you unnecessarily created for yourself, namely journalists, concentrate more on the work you are invested in.
In that is the way of salvation for you. So far, you have only managed to overshadow the president of the Republic, democratically elected by our compatriots; Isn’t this a confiscation of the powers granted by the constitution to the head of state?
In relation to the opposition, we have no lessons from the promoters of “gats” “gats” who used and abused the naivety of some young people to invite them to violence by looting and burning everything on the way, insulting dignitaries, slandering, throwing discredit, shame on the country’s institutions, to name only those irresponsible practices, inelegant at the antipode of republican elegance.
In response, we stand for a responsible, republican opposition, which respects the state and its institutions with the goal of exercising control over government action solely for the benefit of the higher interests of our countrymen here and there. May God continue to watch over SENEGAL. Amen!