Nourou Dine Saka Saley reflects on his exclusion from the 2023 legislative elections: “It was the party that withdrew my name”
Appearing on the “Sunday Interview” show on Eden TV, lawyer and opposition figure Nourou Dine Saka Saley shed light on a thus far little-discussed episode: his notable absence from the January 2023 legislative elections.
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An absence which, according to his remarks, results from an internal decision within his own party, The Democrats.
“My name was removed from the lists before even their submission to the Céna. It is an operation internal to the party,” he stated unequivocally, specifying that no explanation had been given to him to this day.
“I’ve always said it, no one has contested it: it’s the party that removed my name for reasons they alone know,” he insisted.
An Injury Still Raw
Dubbed “the tchigan opponent” on social media, Nourou Dine Saka Saley confessed that this sidelining deeply affected him. “If I say it didn’t hurt me, it would be hypocritical and inhuman,” he acknowledges.
In the same vein, he explains that he purposely chose to disengage from the election campaign run by his party. A decision he justifies by the nature of the comments made in his political circle at the time: “I abstained from campaigning not only because of the removal of my name, but mainly because the statements that preceded this removal were neither useful nor healthy in a political family.”
According to him, the party’s silence in the face of certain regionalist speeches made against him was a red line.
“However much we may be in a political organization, everyone needs to know what we are capable of accepting and what we cannot tolerate. For me, these are non-negotiable principles.”, he asserts.
Nourou Dine Saka Saley’s speech comes in a context where he has announced his intention to run for the party’s nomination for the 2026 presidential election. By discussing his eviction from the 2023 legislative elections, he seems to be laying the groundwork for a new political stance: that of a presidential hopeful acknowledging his wounds, but also his red lines.
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