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Viewing cable 06DAKAR2479, FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR

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06DAKAR2479 2006-10-16 11:34 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Embassy Dakar
VZCZCXRO0354
PP RUEHPA
DE RUEHDK #2479/01 2891134
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
P 161134Z OCT 06
FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 6572
INFO RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
RUEHLMC/MCC WASHDC
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 DAKAR 002479 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR AF/W, AF/RSA, PM/WRA, INR/AA AND INR/B 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/16/2016 
TAGS: PGOV EAID ECON PINS PINR KDEM KMCA KHDP SG
SUBJECT: FIXER, HATCHETMAN, JAILBIRD, STATESMAN: FOUR 
CONVERSATIONS WITH IDRISSA SECK 
 
REF: 05 DAKAR 02509 
 
DAKAR 00002479  001.2 OF 003 
 
 
Classified By: Political Counselor Roy L. Whitaker for reasons 1.4 (b) 
and (d). 
 
SUMMARY 
------- 
1.  (C) Ex-Prime Minister Idrissa Seck, Abdoulaye Wade's 
"spiritual son" and strategist until he fired and jailed him, 
is testing popular support for his presidential bid in a 
pre-campaign tour of the regions.  We had no direct contact 
with Seck since April 2004, but in the last three weeks we 
have had several chance encounters and a formal meeting to 
brief him on the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).  Seck 
trusts but will verify Senegal's electoral process; plans to 
win the February election in part by cutting into Wade's 
religious support; wants a presidential cabinet with strong 
and independent ministers; questions Wade's MCA priorities; 
and believes national economic development should begin by 
rebuilding and reintegrating the Casamance.  END SUMMARY. 
 
JUST LISTENIN', NOT CAMPAIGNIN' 
------------------------------- 
2.  (C) Since formal campaigning for the February 25 
presidential and parliamentary elections is limited to less 
than a month, Seck will crisscross the country to "test 
people's priorities" and build his political organization. 
Only three days after coming back from several months in 
Paris, he headed south for a week's stay in the still 
war-weary Casamance.  Wade loyalists in Ziguinchor gave him 
"48 hours to leave," and forbade him to go to outlying towns. 
 He riposted by publicly holding the state responsible for 
his safety, but said he would also take appropriate measures, 
meaning his platoon of beefy and efficient bodyguards.  Seck 
ended up going where he wanted, and spent evenings and Sunday 
morning lounging at a riverside hotel where our traveling 
Political Counselor, Defense Attache and Senegalese political 
specialist ran into him. 
 
I'LL APPOINT MINISTERS WITH FULL ROLODEXES! 
------------------------------------------- 
3.  (C) At an impromptu September 29 post-dinner dockside 
chat on the Casamance River, Seck voiced ongoing affection 
for his old mentor.  Wade was "well-intentioned in the 
beginning," a true representative of the generation that 
fought for independence and laid a basis for a proud and 
sovereign Senegal.  Unfortunately, after building some basic 
infrastructure, Wade and his contemporaries have turned into 
"talkers rather than doers," incapable of modern leadership 
in a sophisticated world marketplace.  Wade is erratic by 
nature, especially as he grows older, but he also hurt 
himself by choosing terrible staff, rejecting dissenting 
opinions, listening to self-interested pressure from his 
family -- and especially from son Karim.  He has, quite 
simply, lost sight of people's needs and created a "crisis of 
confidence." 
 
4.  (C) Seck told us his polls showed he had the best chance 
to defeat Wade at elections.  A coalition would be necessary 
to beat Wade in the run-off (if there is one), but as both 
agent of the new generation and reformer, he shares goals and 
methods with Socialist Party leader Tanor Dieng: "I get along 
with Tanor."  His policy priorities will be health, good 
governance and fair distribution of resources.  For the young 
urban poor, he will take his slogan from hip hop music: "Idy 
job et chop!" or "Idy for jobs and food." 
 
5.  (C) Wade thinks he can buy unconditional support from 
locally powerful marabouts, but he is wrong.  Seck's own 
Tidjane Brotherhood is alienated by Wade's public 
genuflection to the rival Mouride Brotherhood Khalif, and 
Wade's attempts to curry the favor of militia-backed Islamic 
activists (Moustarchidines, Kara MBacke, Bethio Thioune) is 
simple "political-religious commerce."  As for Wade's 
Mourides, it is true the Khalif "always formally backs the 
incumbent, but he sometimes gives underground instructions." 
(A week later, events seemed to prove Seck right when the 
Khalif's son received him warmly in the Mouride capital of 
Touba and declared "all those who have betrayed the founder 
of Mouridism will lose power.") 
 
6.  (C) Somewhat surprisingly, given the cynicism we have 
heard from his allies and staff, Seck on September 29 voiced 
full confidence in the electoral system which, "despite 
problems, will work fairly."  It is true, though, that the 
new electoral system and voter registration list may not be 
"operational" in time, and it may therefore be necessary to 
retain the current voter list.  The key to fair elections and 
vote counts will be to have electoral watchdogs on the 
 
DAKAR 00002479  002.2 OF 003 
 
 
ground.  Nationwide, Seck has "identified 40,000 poll 
watchers from all segments of society," whom he is equipping 
with cell phones that can photograph and document any fraud. 
He will receive election results "live," as polling stations 
close, and be able instantly to judge the degree of fraud. 
"If it's in the one or two percent range, we'll probably 
tolerate it ... but beyond that, we'll oppose the coup de 
force." 
 
7.  (C) Seck said he is committed to being president.  If he 
loses in 2007, he'll run again in 2012, and in 2017, and in 
2022, at which time he will retire as a candidate.  He 
expects, though, to win in 2007, and his first priority will 
be to end the drift, indecision, incompetence and isolation 
he sees in Wade's cabinet.  He wants strong, independent 
ministers who will be able to challenge the president's 
judgments and who bring to government more than they expect 
to gain from it: "I'll want people who know how to network 
internationally, people with bulging carnets d'adresses 
(rolodexes)." 
 
THE CASAMANCE: THE PEACE PROCESS 
-------------------------------- 
8.  (C) In a second impromptu chat, a hot and lazy late 
Sunday morning on the balcony of Ziguinchor's riverside 
hotel, Seck told the Political Counselor he had purposely 
taken the overnight boat from Dakar, the "Willis," to talk 
with ordinary Casamancais.  Young men and women, he said, 
have impressed upon him that they were returning from Dakar 
as new university graduates or with technical or commercial 
skills, but that their prospects in the Casamance are nil. 
They are demanding Dakar share resources and invest in the 
South.  Some had spoken to him of cousins who, despite the 
peace process, were turning to the rebellion for jobs.  Rebel 
recalcitrant Salif Sadio was said to be offering a kind of 
franchise deal: his group would feed and lodge a new rebel 
for several weeks while he figured out how to live off the 
land.  That, Seck stressed, cannot be allowed to continue, 
and he is talking to younger leaders of the rebellion's 
political wing to seek solutions. 
 
9.  (C) The Casamance must, Seck went on, be linked by 
reliable transportation routes to the north; Ziguinchor must 
be made into a transit and commercial center, and already 
pacified towns and villages must be developed even in the 
absence of a definitive peace pact.  These areas of renewed 
economic activity will in time spread outward and attract 
rebels back from the bush.  The first step is to obtain at 
least two more boats, and they must, unlike the Willis, be 
capable of carrying freight.  Second, real and unwavering 
diplomatic pressure must be put on The Gambia to finally 
allow construction of a bridge across the Gambia River. 
Third, the Casamance River has to be dredged and the 
Ziguinchor port modernized to compete with Banjul as a 
transshipment point for trade from Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, 
Guinea and even Mali's overland commerce.  His policy as 
Prime Minister had been to develop Senegal "one or two cities 
at a time," and as president, he would urge donors to 
redirect assistance first to Ziguinchor. 
 
THE CASAMANCE: DEMINING 
----------------------- 
10.  (C) The Defense Attache joined the conversation at this 
point, and Seck initiated a separate discussion of mine 
removal, which he sees as a key component to the peace 
process and reconstruction.  He asked the nature of U.S. 
involvement in demining, and we explained the distinction 
between operational and humanitarian demining.  He asked to 
what degree the U.S. was involved, and we told him the U.S. 
had donated USD 96 thousand in FY06 monies via Handicapped 
International for two humanitarian demining activities: Mine 
Risk Education and Victims Assistance.  He stressed that 
Casamancais need to see mines being taken out of the ground 
and to enjoy the economic benefits of mine-free orchards and 
farm roads.  We said there has been some progress, including 
the August signing of a decree creating a National Mine 
Action Commission and calling for a National Mine Action 
Center in Ziguinchor, but that we also need a signed peace 
accord. 
 
11.  (C) Seck objected that he sees no need for a formal 
peace agreement; what is urgent is actively building and 
expanding economic opportunity, which in turn would lead to 
peace.  He cited countries, including Cambodia and Bosnia, 
where demining had been undertaken wherever security allowed 
it.  Why should Senegal, he asked, be any different? 
Finally, he asked for a detailed and if possible 
authoritative map of the areas where mines had been laid.  We 
referred him to Handicap International, and two weeks later 
 
DAKAR 00002479  003.2 OF 003 
 
 
delivered to him the HI materials and maps.  While grateful 
for the information, he both voiced and showed disappointment 
to learn that demining must follow a formal peace pact, and 
that the actual demining process could take several years. 
 
MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT 
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12.  (C) Charge, Economic and Political Counselors called on 
Seck October 11 at his Dakar home to brief on the Millennium 
Challenge Account.  He had by that time finished his 
Casamance tour and delayed a visit to the North amidst 
reports that the ruling Senegalese Democratic Party was 
organizing to disrupt his trip.  He was also coping with a 
finding by the Prime Minister and Interior Minister that Seck 
could not use the name "Rewmi" or "the country" for his new 
political party, a name chosen, our Senegalese Political 
Assistant assures us, because it is charged with emotion, 
patriotism and a sense of care for the common good.  Freedom 
of movement is essential to a democracy, he fumed; he will 
continue his fact-finding travels and will counter, though he 
will not initiate, any violence.  His affection for Wade 
seems to be fading: "Wade is the author of attacks on my home 
(in 2005), and of the beating of (another young political 
activist) Talla Sylla."  The latest threats are being made, 
he argued, because the Government is "aware of the political 
facts on the ground," which do not favor Wade. 
 
13.  (C) The Princeton econometrics-educated Seck then turned 
to the MCA, and showed he was well briefed both in general 
and on Senegal's project proposal in particular.  He 
questioned Wade's ability and willingness to be a productive 
and accountable partner, and voiced concern over the process 
of displacing tenants at the site, land ownership 
transparency, and the possibility of open and competitive 
tendering for managing partners, suppliers and construction 
firms.  He questioned whether the project's profitability and 
economic growth potential could meet expectations. 
 
14.  (C) Seck asked whether the current project at Diamniadio 
is the best use of a significant level of development 
assistance.  There may be a disconnect, he suggested, between 
current U.S. aid programs of about USD 55 million for the 
entire country, and a projected investment of USD 500 million 
for a single project.  He said the site is essentially a 
"Dakar project," since Dakar would grow to encompass it 
within 25 years.  Further, the project would draw even more 
migrants from the Casamance and further deepen its brain 
drain and economic woes.  The Charge stressed that the MCA 
project included multiple provisions to assure accountability 
and transparency, and that Diamniadio could significantly 
enhance economic growth and reduce poverty, but Seck 
recommended instead investment in the Casamance. 
 
COMMENT 
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15.  (C) Seck remains as determined as ever to be president, 
and he sees his informal national surveys and enthusiastic 
reception in the Casamance as proof that he has a chance to 
finish first or second in the election's initial round. 
Further, he sees himself as the advance guard of a reform 
generation that includes Socialist Party leader and fellow 
reformer Tanor Dieng, and hints strongly that they can form 
the nucleus of a coalition that will beat Wade in the 
run-off.  He also says he wants this election, unlike most in 
Senegal, to turn on issues rather than personalities. 
 
16.  (C) Even his enemies concede that Seck has a "deeply 
structured and disciplined mind" (reftel).  He is a focused 
workhorse, who is deeply religious (to the point that his 
citing of the Koran in times of distress annoys even some 
moderate Muslims), and, as his long-time service to Wade 
shows, has an instinct for both the groin and the jugular. 
What he has never demonstrated is the charisma to bring 
crowds along with him.  Whether by calculation or by chance, 
he has timed his return from Paris well: a population 
exhausted by energy shortages, joblessness, proof of judicial 
corruption, teacher and student discontent in schools and 
university, chaotic traffic, and a general impression of 
executive mismanagement, are receptive to calls for change. 
END COMMENT. 
JACKSON