Petro-Tim obtained a licence to prospect for oil in the Cayar Offshore Profond and Saint Louis Offshore Profond from the then President Abdoulaye Wade's son Infrastructure and Energy minister Karim Wade in 2012...
Mame Mbaye Niang the tourism minister and one of Macky Sall's most vociferous cheerleaders – this month he created the Plateforme Senegal 2035 to support Sall's re-election bid – accused Sonko of plagiarism and being in cahoots with Abdoulaye and Karim Wade...
Karim Wade who lives in Qatar was convicted for corruption and then pardoned but he remains excluded from the race on nationality grounds even if he could win the backing of his father's Parti démocratique Sénégalais (AC Vol 55 No 24 Sall clears the decks & Vol 57 No 14 Mercy and Machiavelli)...