Former President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday responded subtly, diplomatically and with the grace of an international statesman to attempts by President Maada Bio and his wife Fatima to drag him into the tremendous chaos they are generating in the country on the eve of Sierra Leone’s Elections.
As chaos threatens to engulf Sierra Leone because of structures President Bio and the Elections Commission of Sierra Leone ( ECSL) have put in place to rig next Saturday’s elections ( which some opposition parties , citizen activists and the People’s Power In Politics organization are strongly contesting ), instead of addressing these concerns, President Bio and his wife decided to turn their wrath on former President Ernest Koroma , who has been conspicuously silent during this heightened period of political activism in the country.
For reasons best known to himself, President Bio threatened Dr. Ernest Koroma during one of his electioneering campaign rallies that if President Koroma did not behave as a statesman, he will disgrace him. What that means, nobody has fathomed. Then , the president’s wife, Fatima Bio responded by public alleging during a rally that she will soon expose videos of APC members, including Ernest Koroma, who go to her husband at night to expose APC plans at National Advisory Council ( NAC) meetings of the party and to also beg him .
The unprovoked attacks on former President Koroma by President Bio and his wife shocked a lot of people, but some Sierra Leoneans have opined that President Bio must be steadily becoming frustrated and unnerved by the momentum the opposition has been generating during the campaigns and the strong resistance to his plans to rig the elections.
President Koroma has responded in a more diplomatic fashion condemning elections-related tension and violence in Sierra Leone but he has spared no bones to call on the international community to pay more closed attention to Sierra Leone.
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