Diamoye Faye’s Senegalese Presidential Victory; A Litmus Test For Democracy In Africa.
The victory of 44-year-old Diamonye Faye in the previous Sunday’s Senegalese Presidential election has left a gap for other African countries to fill in terms of defending and sustaining the image of democracy. Mr. Faye of the Pastef opposition Party had been in jail for the past ten days before the election just to weaken his strength in slogging it out with the serving President at the polls, the ruling party’s Ba congratulated Mr. Faye ahead of the final declaration. For seventeen candidates to have conceded victory to Faye even when the poll was yet to be finalized told much about…
