Senegalese President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, final Friday paid a working go to to Ghana as a part of his “friendship and dealing” tour of some international locations within the West Africa area, together with Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire.
At a gathering on the Jubilee Home in Accra, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo instructed the Senegalese President that his election as President is a supply of reassurance for all who’re within the democratic way forward for Senegal.
“At one time, Senegal’s status as a rustic dedicated to the rules of democratic accountability and respect for human rights regulation was being jeopardised. However happily, good sense prevailed,” the Ghanaian President acknowledged.
Accompanied by his Ministers of Finance, Overseas Affairs and Safety and high-profile authorities, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s go to, in keeping with President Akufo-Addo, is historic and refreshing for the 2 international locations to raise their bond of friendship to a better degree.
Regardless that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s go to to Ghana was temporary, President Akufo-Addo was impressed and inspired by the gesture and added that, “As you are conscious I went for his inauguration due to the historical past between our two international locations and in addition as a result of his election was a supply of reassurance to these of us who consider within the democratic way forward for our area and continent.”
For a while, Senegal’s status as a rustic dedicated to the rules of democratic accountability, respect for human rights and the rule of regulation was in ruins. “Nevertheless, good sense prevailed, elections have been held and Bassior Faye emerged because the clear convincing winner of the election.”
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President Akufo-Addo mentioned President Faye’s ascendancy to the presidency had introduced peace and unity to his nation and the West African area.
He hoped that Senegal would play an important position within the improvement of the ECOWAS.
“We’re fortunate in having a brand new chief in Senegal and he’s going to assist us to attempt to resolve the massive drawback that we have now within the ECOWAS neighborhood, and that’s the purported departure of three of the important thing figures, key nations…that’s Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali,” he mentioned.
President Akufo-Addo expressed optimism that President Faye would decide to reviving the dialogue that may allow ECOWAS to increase a hand of brotherhood and friendship to these members who had exited.
“It’s traditionally crucial set of measures to be taken to let it occur,” President Akufo-Addo mentioned, including: “The election of President Faye has rekindled hope for the youth particularly in Ghana and all of them now need to be president.”
