For four days, Saleh Kebzabo was in the depths of the Mayo-Kebbi East region where he went from village to village to speak to "the deep country," as he puts it. His objective is to explain to Chadians — who do not listen to radios and do not have access to social networks — his call to boycott the presidential election on April 11.

"Our name appears on the ballot. We are therefore obliged to go into the field, to conduct not a campaign so that people vote for us since we are not candidates, but to explain the Supreme Court's wrongdoing, by saying that we are not candidates. People understand this. We explain why we are not candidates in an election that is a sham election and we ask them, consequently, not to go vote, quite simply. This is a boycott campaign that I am conducting and I think it is working well," Saleh Kebzabo emphasizes.

Head of electoral commission calls for public order to be maintained

Response from the president of Chad's National Electoral Commission: Kodi Mahamat Bam believes that "everyone has the right to conduct their campaign as they wish," but not under any conditions.

"We are in a democracy and everyone is free to say what they think, in campaigning, on the sole condition that they do not disturb public order. If they introduce statements likely to disrupt public order, we have Security. That is not a matter for the electoral commission," he clarifies.

But the real test will be toward the end of this week, according to opposition figure Kebzabo. He plans to organize a major rally in Ndjamena where he will call for active boycott of the presidential election.

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