00:00For now, it's status quo. Nothing has changed. Neither Basiru Diyamae-Fai nor Ousmane Sonko
00:12has spoken about the crisis shaking their party, their coalition, the Diyamae President
00:17Coalition that brought Basiru Diyamae-Fai to power. All we know is that well-meaning individuals
00:22have stepped in to mediate and to try and sue things over between the two men. So far,
00:28nothing has leaked apart from a few speculations and perhaps statements from past deaf officials
00:33who are trying to reassure the public that things are on the right track. This is, in any case,
00:39contrary to the information published in the press this morning. Take, for example, the headline of
00:43Source A, a private daily newspaper, which indicates that the Basiru-Songko divide is widening. This
00:50shows the difficulty of the mediation efforts undertaken by well-meaning individuals, members
00:55of civil society, marabouts, and even members of the families of the two men, who, as some say,
01:02are no longer speaking the same language. At the root of this crisis is the desire of the head of
01:08state, Basiru Diyamae-Fai, to reorganize the presidential coalition that brought him to power.
01:13And this is where the tug of war began between the two men who once described their relationship
01:18as unsakeable. For as we clearly remember, it was Ousmane Songko who, after his conviction,
01:24designated Basiru Diyamae-Fai as the candidate with the famous slogan,
01:28Songko nmoe Diyamae, meaning Songko is Diyamae, now being put to the test by this struggle at the
01:34top of the state. Some members of the party's hardline wing are demanding respect for the hierarchy.
01:41President Basiru Diyamae-Fai is now being denied any legitimacy to lead the reorganization.
01:46For after his election, he resigned from all party bodies to, as he said, rise above the fray.
01:52We await to see how the situation evolves in the coming hours and days, but for now, nothing has moved.
01:57I'm Ali Johnson-Sambou, correspondent at the Sénégal for Africa News.
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