Wade Ignores Obasanjo Request To Step Down

Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has ignored appeals by former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo to withdraw from the presidential race scheduled for Sunday.

The country’s opposition politicians and civil society leaders expressed satisfaction after their first meeting with Obasanjo, the African Union and Economic Community of West African States head of observer mission, in Dakar.

But after Obasanjo’s meeting with Wade, the ruling party said it would neither withdraw the president’s candidacy nor postpone the date of the election. Wade is seeking a highly disputed third term.