"If the Senegalese come out en masse to ask me to quit, I will go. There won't be

 a revolution, or a coup d'etat." That was what President Abdoulaye Wade said

on April 22, 2011, in which he vowed to quit office if confronted by mass popular

protests. President Wade had earlier rejected comparison between him and what

were going on in Tunisia and Egypt, saying, ""The difference between us and

Tunisia and Egypt is that I actually want people to demonstrate." As fate would

have it, President Wade got his wishes on June 23, 2011, when violent protests

erupted in front of the National Assembly by opposition forces that were

protesting against President Wade's attempt to change the Senegalese

constitution, and introduce the post of a vice president. However, it is not

understandable whether this is the kind of protests that Mr. Wade was praying

for, because its final outcome could result in the same fate that the leaders of

Tunisia and Egypt suffered - that's being shamefully chased out of office and

exiled from the country that they proclaimed to have loved so much. (READ MORE)