WHERE TO NEXT SLPP STUPID MAADA BIO? UNAR GO WIT MI NAR POLICE OR COURT YAH ,,,,,,,, AR READY By Moisa S. Keikura the managing Director of the future newspaper Like a big ship on the ocean without a skilled experienced captain to steer it, its compass destroyed, its rudder broken in very stormy weather, and its crew mutinous, the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party has sadly lost focus and direction and is surely headed for destruction on the rocks of bitter internal power struggle. “Leave SLPP alone, they think we are fools,” opines Memenua James, “for the next fifty years, as long as we are alive, they shall never win power in this country.” The reason why, according to views solicited, the majority of voters with their heads sitting properly on their shoulders will never vote for the SLPP is their arrogance and disdain for the ordinary masses. For example, in 2007, while the ordinary people were crying hunger, the SLPP had the audacity and insensitivity to throw rice at the people while campaigning for Solomon Berewa. Quite besides being insensitive to the needs of the people that are supposed to serve when they hold state power, the SLPP has a long history of stupidly shooting itself in the foot. Those with a long memory would remember how after the death Sir Albert Margai, the first post-independence prime minister of Sierra Leone in 1964, his over-ambitious younger brother who succeeded him because the Men1des who think SLPP ids their personal property quickly divided the party sharply along ethnic and regional lines. The after-effect was immediate and destructive. In the closely fought 1967 general elections, just like in the ominous 2007 elections forty years after, the SLPP shamefully lost power to its arch political rival the APC. One very wise Mende man looking on the present calamity that besets the SLPP has moaned that “Torkpoi” never learns from its bitter experiences. “Torkpoi lost the 2007 elections because it was hopelessly divided among itself, why can’t we learn?” Maada Swaray of Kenema has asked. It could be recalled that in 2005, the now leader of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change, Charles Margai, was the favored frontrunner for the position of flag bearer of the SLPP. Instead of him, things were craftily manipulated by a crooked party executive to favor Solomon Berewa. Once, again, in the election that followed in 2007, SLPP paid dearly for its refusal to live as “One Country, One People. The same capital blunder was repeated again by the SLPP in 2012 when against the advice of wiser heads, Maada Bio, whose past political record as a top-ranking member of the NPRC military junta is nothing good to write home about was imposed on the party as flag bearer. Once again, the party lost easily to the nationally popular APC leader, Ernest Koroma. As if that was enough to have knocked some sense into the heads of the SLPP, immediately after the November 17, 2012 elections, instead of flag bearer Maada Bio and his supporters showing gratitude and appreciation to the party chairman and leader for the huge financial sacrifice he and others made to push Bio’s campaign forward, Bio ungrateful launched into a bitter struggle to usurp John Benjamin’s position. Many observers of the country’s political scene have opined that SLPP needs first of all to set its house in order, eat humble pie and respect and appreciate the fact that state power belongs to the people of Sierra Leone and not to the Mendes of the South/East. “However much they tout Maada Bio as their candidate for 2017, they are sure to lose woefully again,” many youths in the Western Area have opined. That was the one of the reasons why he woefully failed to win the 2012 presidential race. “It was Usu Boi who won that SLPP flag bearer contest, only for John Benjamin and others, because of their Mende-ness to at the last minute engineer the result to declare Maada Bio winner,” one Northern insider said. It is this same Maada Bio who so desperate for power incited his supporters to mount repeated challenges to the leadership of John Benjamin, among other things accusing him of having embezzled $60,000. Reports state that this latest struggle for power has further sharply divided the SLPP. “The SLPP is fast becoming a spent force,” stated one party insider, who laments that if Maada Bio is the only way forward to the ‘New Direction’, he might as well pitch tent now with the APC which he described as more open minded, liberal and accommodating of other tribes that the SLPP. As security precautions for the safety of the state and its people, the SLP, the SLA, and the ONS should beware of these SLPP party of the opposition SLPP they love fighting for power As a leader, one remarkable characteristic he has is that he is God fearing and believes in knowledge sharing with his cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, local authorities the youths for the betterment of Mama Salone. That’s how he was able to reach out to a lot of voters in the SLPP strongholds whose votes definitely made his first round victory certain. One other remarkable quality about President Koroma people talk about is that he is a man of his words; that way he has be able to achieve many of the things he outlined in the Agenda for Change that has paved the way to the Agenda for Prosperity. President Koroma is a man with an eye to the past but focused on the present and the future. A problematic leader MAADA who knows he alone cannot achieve the vision he has of a better nation, It’s good for our president to call and hosts SLPP stakeholders for security reasons
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 19:47:56 +0000
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