Nothing weighs on me more heavily than the difficulties our country faces and nothing will stop me from my ambition [to serve Senegal] and my willingness to do so.

I am pleased to solemnly announce that I have taken a decision to submit to the suffrage of my compatriots a project for national recovery.

It was with a serene conscience that I entered into this ordeal, and it is with a serene conscience that I come out of it.

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

The only difference is that in Asia there are more chickens living in close proximity to humans. There has been no mutation of the virus (here) up until now, thank God.

These office-seekers are a curse to the country; no sooner was my election certain, than I became the prey of hundreds of hungry persistent applicants for office, whose highest ambition is to feed at the Government's crib