Wade defiant as tense Senegal braces for vote
- 12 years ago
Senegal's presidential candidates have held their final rallies before Sunday's elections as protesters marched in the streets and a respected African stateman sought to broker a solution to the country's political standoff.
President Abdoulaye Wade, the 85-year-old incumbent whose controversial decision to seek a third term has provoked street protests and an opposition movement calling on him to quit, told supporters at a rally in Dakar on Friday that there was "no going back".
"I am in good health. If the Senegalese people want me for a new term, I will do it," Wade told Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons on Friday.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Dakar.
President Abdoulaye Wade, the 85-year-old incumbent whose controversial decision to seek a third term has provoked street protests and an opposition movement calling on him to quit, told supporters at a rally in Dakar on Friday that there was "no going back".
"I am in good health. If the Senegalese people want me for a new term, I will do it," Wade told Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons on Friday.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Dakar.