{{Senegalese ex-president Abdoulaye Wade, who is due to return home on Friday after two years in exile, has accused his successor Macky Sall of manoeuvring against him.}}<\/p>\n
Wade’s flight was grounded in Casablanca on Wednesday when he planned to make his way back to Dakar in a bid to be closer to his son Karim, who has been jailed in Senegal on corruption charges.<\/p>\n
“I understood a long time ago that Macky Sall did not want this day to happen”, Wade told the media in Morocco.<\/p>\n
He accused Sall, an arch rival who won a resounding victory against him at an election in 2012, of “manoeuvring” against him.<\/p>\n
Wade, who was in power from 2000 to 2012, moved to France after the defeat.<\/p>\n
The 87-year-old said his flight from France to Morocco had been grounded in Casablanca and that he waited for several hours for the green light to take off.<\/p>\n
He accused officials in Dakar of delaying his trip in order to disperse his supporters who had planned to welcome him on his arrival.<\/p>\n
Waded added, however, that he still expected to return to Senegal on Friday afternoon after “some small problems” are ironed out.<\/p>\n
Reports from Senegal said a large number of Wade supporters had gathered to welcome him on Wednesday amid heavy security.<\/p>\n
Wade’s son Karim, aged 45, whose wealth includes land in Dakar, a fleet of luxury cars and media and finance companies operating across Africa, has been on remand in Dakar for a year and is due to be tried in June.<\/p>\n
Senegal authorities accuse him of using corrupt means to acquire a fortune of $246m when he was a so-called “super minister” in his father’s cabinet.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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