…By Roland Peterson for TDPel Media.
Sonko, a critic of President Macky Sall’s government who finished third in the 2019 presidential election, was declared “unreachable” by his party after being forcibly taken to the capital, Dakar, by the police.
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Additionally, Sonko’s bid for the presidency has been clouded by a six-month suspended sentence he received in March for defaming Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niangtou.