Cracks between Senegal's Sonko-Ousmane alliance widening

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Cracks between Senegal's Sonko-Ousmane alliance widening   For now, it’s the status quo — nothing has changed. Neither Bassirou Diomaye Faye nor Ousmane Sonko has spoken about the crisis shaking their party, their coalition, the “Diomaye President” coalition that brought Bassirou Diomaye Faye to power.  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/11/17/cracks-between-senegals-sonko-ousmane-alliance-widening  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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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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