240 Months Gone, 20 Months to Go, What Next for EBK and the APC?
By Chernor Lamin Koroma
It’s high time fellow APCians particularly the grassroots began to reason well with regard mapping out the way forward for resounding victory for APC party come 2023. For an opposition to regain power needs conscious and frantic efforts. Efforts that are not just limited to talking and writing press releases but rather strategic planning and temerity to confront the issues.
Without any malice, the current executive, particularly the Leader and Chairman of the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Secretary General of the party have outlived their usefulness in the party. Since the APC went into opposition, the duo have never shown any form of readiness to challenge the miasma of issues that the masses are facing with in this current dispensation. Of course, we are all aware that our Chairman and Leader is a statesman. And being a statesman, he is for obvious reasons constrained with what to do and what not to do. With this limitation, I therefore agree with the opinion of Hon. Ibrahim Bundu who was on AYV television yesterday, asking for the resignation of former President Ernest Bai Koroma and Ambassador Alhaji Osman Faday Yansaneh in the best interest of the party and the suffering masses. According to Hon. Bundu there had been a precedent whereby Chukuma Johnson and the very Alhaji Osman Faday Yansaneh resigned from their positions as chairman and leader and Secretary General of the APC party in 2002 largely due to administrative lapses.
To be candid, if President Koroma truly loves the APC as he claims, he can still render his utmost support from outside. Certainly, staying outside and providing the necessary support to the party could be reasonably better than hanging around with bottlenecks. It is better we learn to sacrifice for the bigger picture than to prove obstinate for our selfish parochial interest. We need a vibrant opposition which can apparently not be provided by the current APC executive. The suffering majority are therefore calling for the exit of the current executive to allow fresh and vibrant people within the party to step up and save not only the party but the suffering masses. Sierra Leone is in dire need of APC to salvage the current abhorrent situation.
