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Senegal’s gov’t SG resigns amid election postponement

Feb 5, 2024, 12:10 PM

Abdou Latif Coulibaly resigned from his post as Secretary General of the Government this Saturday, January 23. "Having noted the facts taking place in the National Assembly and having also taken very good note of the address to the Senegalese people, I have decided to leave.

After careful consideration, I have decided to draw all the consequences of all this, to leave the Government. I thus regain my full and complete freedom, to be able to defend my opinions and my political convictions. This freedom is essential to me, in this period", he declared in a text that we publish in full.

"I communicated this afternoon to the Head of State my decision to leave my functions as Minister Secretary General of the government. I indicated to him that having noted the facts taking place in the National Assembly and having also taken very good note of the address to the Senegalese people, I decided to leave. After careful consideration, I made the decision to draw all the consequences of all this, to leave the Government. I thus regain my full and complete freedom, to be able to defend my opinions and my political convictions. This freedom is essential to me during this period.

I also explained to the President of the Republic that I was finally waiting for his word to send my resignation letter. I also explained to him that I wanted to leave, reaffirming that throughout my career as a journalist my brother, Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Coulibaly, was never involved, either directly or remotely, in my work, other than reading, whenever he felt like it.

Long live the Republic. We believe in her deeply. And in her we will always continue to believe. Because it is she, the only reliable rampart, because solid as a rock, in the face of all the perilous adventures towards which some try to lead us!

Source Seneweb.com