National Telescope national telescope newspaper
Senegal president Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who assumed office on Tuesday, has made a tremendous advancement in the nation’s development by appointing his mentor and opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, as prime minister.
Oumar Samba Ba, the general secretary of the presidency, announced this as he read out a decree on the public television station RTS.
It was said that Faye, 44, had no prior experience holding political office. Within ten days of his release from prison, he won the first round of voting on the platform of radical change.
His predecessor, Macky Sall, gave him the keys to the presidential mansion after he took the oath of office in front of hundreds of witnesses and other leaders of state from Africa. He then returned to the city, where his motorcade was met by hundreds of cheering citizens.
Ten days before the presidential election on March 24, a group of opposition politicians, including Faye and Sonko, were freed from prison as part of an amnesty announced by former president Macky Sall, who had tried to push back the poll.
Recall that Sonko, 49, was engulfed in a two-year standoff with the government that had been sparked by violent upheaval. Having been thrown out of the last election, he picked Faye to take his place in the presidential vote.
