{"id":24202,"date":"2024-03-27T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/senegalese-president-elect-faye-borrows-broom-from-apc-video\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:02:49","slug":"senegalese-president-elect-faye-borrows-broom-from-apc-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/senegalese-president-elect-faye-borrows-broom-from-apc-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese President-Elect, Faye, borrows broom from APC [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The newly elected Senegal President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was seen celebrating his victory with a broom on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The broom is synonymous with the leading political party in Nigeria, a country referred as a giant in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese President-Elect, who will assume office by April 2, was seen waving a broom, the way the members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, do in Nigeria during rallies, campaigns or victory parades.<\/p>\n<p>Faye, a member of the banned African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (French: Patriotes africains du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal pour le travail, l\u2019\u00e9thique et la fraternit\u00e9; PASTEF, won the presidential election as an opposition coalition\u2019s populist.<\/p>\n<p>Amadou Ba, a 62-year-old former finance minister and immediate past prime minister in Sall\u2019s cabinet who ran as the ruling party coalition\u2019s choice, conceded defeat to Faye on Monday and congratulated him.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Senegalese law requires a candidate to win 50% or more of the vote to be declared president after the first round, failing which a second round between the top two candidates will decide the election.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old Faye was one of 19 candidates on the ballot in the contest to replace President Macky Sall who is term-limited.<\/p>\n<p>Video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Senegal\u2019s President-Elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, celebrates his victory with a broom.  pic.twitter.com\/NQo2WxQG8f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Imran Muhammad (@Imranmuhdz) March 27, 2024<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senegalese President-Elect, Faye, borrows broom from APC [VIDEO]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected Senegal President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was seen celebrating his victory with a broom on Wednesday. The broom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12980,15,10165],"tags":[12981,180,10166],"class_list":["post-24202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faye","category-news","category-senegalese","tag-faye","tag-news","tag-senegalese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}