Seydi Gassama : l’égaré qui tente d’empêcher l’Afrique d’entrer dans l’Histoire !{Ibrahima Baba SALL}
There are men who build, and others who spend their time making a mess of the construction site.
There are those who elevate their country, and those who take pleasure in dragging it down.
Seydi Gassama chose his role a long time ago: that of the permanent destroyer, the obsessive prosecutor, the inveterate detractor of President Macky Sall.
At every crucial stage for Senegal, he is there. Not to propose. Not to unite. But to oppose. Always. Systematically. Blindly.
For years, Seydi Gassama has been repeating the same refrain. No matter the subject, no matter the context, no matter what's at stake: President Macky Sall must be guilty. Guilty before any investigation. Guilty before any debate. Guilty on principle.
This is no longer civic vigilance. It's an obsession. A political pathology disguised as a moral virtue.
By constantly crying scandal every morning, you end up convincing no one except yourself.
There was a time when Senegalese civil society inspired respect and credibility. Today, some of its loudest spokespeople, thankfully not all, have transformed it into a personal platform, an instrument for settling scores.
What did Seydi Gassama do in response to President Macky Sall's candidacy for the UN?
He did not debate.
He did not analyze it.
He did not propose a credible African alternative.
He attacked. As always, accusing President Macky Sall of crimes that are nothing but a figment of his imagination.
President Macky Sall's candidacy for the position of UN Secretary-General is not a matter of party or individual affiliation. It is an African candidacy. A rare opportunity for the continent to make a credible, moderate, and respected voice heard at the highest levels of global multilateralism.
To oppose it by Pavlovian reflex is to play into the hands of those who think that Africa is only good for receiving lessons, never for giving them.
It's petty. It's mean. It's irresponsible.
Whether one admits it or not, President Macky Sall governed. He led a state. He upheld institutions. He maintained stability in a region engulfed in conflict. He represented Africa on all major international stages.
While some were shouting their indignation, he was negotiating with the great powers.
While others were denouncing it, he was proposing solutions.
While some were shouting, he was speaking to the world.
The UN Secretary-General is not an NGO activist.
He is not an ideologue.
He is not a full-time activist.
He is a mediator. A diplomat. A man of balance. A strategist of dialogue.
Everything that the perpetually indignant will never be.
Those who confuse global governance with a militant tribunal have completely misunderstood the complexity of the world.
Those who are now shouting against President Macky Sall are often silent elsewhere. Very silent. Strangely silent. Their indignation is selective, their courage geographical, their morality flexible.
Human rights then become an empty slogan, brandished when it suits them, put away when it is inconvenient.
To accuse without nuance, without hierarchy, without restraint, is to weaken the cause one claims to defend. When everything is a crime, nothing is. When everything is a scandal, nothing shocks.
Seydi Gassama's activism has ultimately lost all credibility.
Macky Sall's candidacy is unsettling because it is serious.
Because she is credible.
Because it is African without being folkloric.
Because she talks about climate, inequality, and world peace, not personal resentments.
She disturbs those who exist politically through conflict, not through vision.
History is cruel to saboteurs. It remembers the builders and forgets the rabble-rousers. It cherishes those who championed collective ambitions and sweeps aside those who clung to their personal hatreds.
Macky Sall is moving forward.
His detractors are barking.
The world, meanwhile, is watching the results.
Africa does not need its own internal enemies.
Senegal does not need activists who dream of failure in order to be able to say "I told you so".
The UN needs statesmen, not slogans.
The rest, Mr. Gassama, is just noise.
And noise, by definition, always eventually stops.
Ibrahima Baba SALL
Former First Vice President of the National Assembly
Mayor of Bakel
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