The campaign for the presidential election ends on Friday with a final meeting between the head of state in the capital. Several opposition candidates have left the campaign outside Ndjamena, especially in the south of the country.
In central Ndjamena, there are posters of the head of state everywhere, states our special correspondent in Ndjamena, Alexandra Brangeon. Six more days before the presidential election next Sunday. Seven candidates are running, including President Idris Déby Itno, who is seeking a sixth term at the head of the country.
“Let us vote for Idriss Déby Itno to guarantee pan-African security,” read a sign 4 meters high and 10 meters wide at one of the city center roundabouts.
A little longer, a few thousand supporters of the head of state organized a meeting on Sunday at the sports arena.
As for the party in power, his spokesman says he favors door-to-door, more effectively, according to him, to explain the program.
On the streets of Ndjamena, the campaign does not seem to generate much enthusiasm. Very few are those who agree to vote in a vote that they say they are playing in advance. “I do not have time,” says the soap salesman in the Dembé market. “I do not care, we need to live,” adds a fabric salesman a few meters away.
Will young people mobilize?
The opposition is hardly visible in the capital. No poster, except for some of the former Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacké, now a candidate. No trolley either. “We are concentrating our efforts in the regions where our voters are,” indicates the campaign manager for candidate Félix Nialbé Romadoungar.
Yesterday, for example, the candidate Brice Guedmbaye Mbaïmon was in Doba, the capital of the province that has been using oil since 2003, in the south. He and his team focused the criticism on improper handling of oil resources, reports our correspondent Madjiasra Nako. He hopes to convince the young people, more at the meeting that was held at the city’s only stadium.
The secretary general of the Chadian Patriots movement for the republic, the formation of the multi-party candidate, is calling the accusation against a regime that has been unable to offer the smallest kilometer of bitumen to the city, which has been producing oil for nearly twenty years.
“You have been told that Doba will now tar. We would ask you which street remains to be paved. Oil comes out of Doba, but Doba is not tarred. The tar you see is a national tar, it’s not for Doba. », Explains Nadjitoïde Aimé.
Then comes the turn of the candidate Brice Guedmbaye Mbaïmon who condemns the famine that is raging in the oil basin.
“How do you expect people to get hungry in a city like Doba?” It is a pity for the nation. We will fight hunger by doing what? We will develop so-called rural trade. ”
The youngest public won. It remains to be seen if he will follow the instructions on April 11.
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