After the victory of the Alliance for the Republic (Apr) in the previous presidential election in February 2019, the former Minister of the Economy, Finance and Planning was appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese of the ‘Outside. An appointment that caused a lot of ink and saliva to flow. Many observers had advanced the thesis that, Amadou Ba, felt aggrieved. Arguing that the man wanted to remain in his department before the reshuffle. Invited to Tfm, Mr. Ba took the opportunity to return to his relationship with the President of the Republic, Macky Sall.
It is against all expectations that Amadou Ba deconstructs all the theories agitated around this affair of appointment. The Minister of Foreign Affairs who says that the relations which bind him to Macky Sall are immense in many respects. Even if, he adds, he was not one of those who accompanied the current tenant of the Palais de Roume in the march towards the supreme magistracy in 2012. “It was in 2013 that he (Editor’s note: Macky Sall) called me to tell me that he will appoint me Minister of the Economy and Finance. I accepted and I gave myself thoroughly (…)“, Told Amadou Ba specifying that during his first three years, he did not have an Apr card. This is until the President invites him to help him politically. Thing, he says, that he could not refute.
2016, the fateful year
According to Amadou Ba, his entry into the government team of Macky Sall dates back to 2013. But 2016 was a fateful year in that it coincided with the referendum. ”We were victorious by the grace of God. And I participated in the victory on the plan that I had been given to the Parcelles Assainies“, He said indicating that it was the day before the 2017 legislative elections that he was informed that his name is on the lists.
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