𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was the first Northerner to lead the SLPP to general elections victory in 1996. Kabbah’s father was a Mandingo from Kambia district and his mother hailed from Morbai, in the Kailahun district, Eastern Province. Kabbah’s running mate in 1996 was Dr. Albert Joe Demby from the Southern Region. Dr. Demby served as Vice President …

One good thing that President Julius Maada Bio did for the SLPP is to fight with ferocity and force to bring the party back to power in 2018. In 1996, as military head of state, Brig. Julius Maada Bio presided over the return to civilian rule after multi-party elections were held across the country. After the Chairman of INEC (Interim …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. In May 2002, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the SLPP was re-elected President for another five-year term, after defeating the APC Presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma in a first ballot. Kabbah received 70% of the valid votes cast. His party won 83 seats in Parliament out of the 112 seats contested for in the Parliamentary election. During his …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. On 7th July, 1999 President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and the RUF leader, Foday Saybana Sankoh, signed the Lome Peace Accord. The Lome Peace Accord made provision for power-sharing between the Government of Tejan Kabbah and the RUF of Foday Sankoh. The RUF leader was accorded the status of a Vice President and some of his henchmen became …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚 Few months to his death in May 1988, former President Siaka Stevens requested his friend, The Gambian President, Sir Dauda Jawara, to allow him to travel to Banjul for medical treatment. His health had seriously deteriorated at the time. President Sir Dauda Jawara wrote a letter to President Joseph Saidu Momoh, asking him to graciously allow his …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. By the year 2000, an Isreali businessman Zeev Morganstein had taken the Government of Sierra Leone to the High Court in Freetown for failing to pay him about US$3M he was owed for supplying the Ministry of Defence with critical spare parts for a military helicopter owned by RSLAF (Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces). Zeev decided …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, once noted that, leadership is about integrity. After he retired from office in 2007, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah portrayed himself as an international statesman. Even in retirement, he refused to openly criticize his successor President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma. When President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died in Freetown …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. According to official results announced by Christiana Thorpe in the run-off Presidential election held on 8th September, 2007 Ernest Bai Koroma of the APC (All People’s Congress) emerged victorious with 54.6% of the total valid votes counted. He defeated the SLPP candidate, Solomon Ekuma Berewa. The defeat of the SLPP in 2007 threw the party into a …

𝐁𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚. The resignation of Dr. Dennis Bright from the position of Chairman and Leader and member of the NGC Party on 1st February, 2023 has dealt an enormous damage to the political career and ambition of Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella. In his letter of resignation, Dr. Dennis Bright said, “You will recall that in recent times there have …

By Sorie Fofana. The voter registration exercise which was conducted by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone has ended. An extension is not likely. Both the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC have commended the exercise describing it as a huge success. In a public notice dated 11th October, 2022 the Secretary General of the ruling SLPP, Umaru Napoleon …