In a fiery address delivered this Sunday, July 12, 2026, on the sidelines of Pastef’s headquarters inauguration in Touba, Ousmane Sonko, the former Prime Minister and current President of the National Assembly, issued a stark warning: he threatened to bring down the government led by Al Aminou Lo. Sonko accuses the current administration of squandering the nation’s natural resources to multinational corporations and pledged to introduce legislation that would subject all future oil contracts to parliamentary approval.
Less than two months after his dismissal from the Premiership by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Ousmane Sonko, now presiding over the National Assembly, delivered an ultimatum to the new head of government, Al Aminou Lo, this Sunday.
Speaking in a particularly vehement Wolof discourse, Sonko accused the new Prime Minister of betraying the initial commitments made by the ruling power concerning economic sovereignty, especially regarding the management of gas and phosphate reserves. He condemned the government for allegedly
