Β ALFRED ISHMEL SESAY RECEIVES HIS CARD FROM APC LEADER ERNEST KOROMA
By Joseph Kamanda
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Monday January 8, 2007
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Barely six month away to the much- awaited Presidential and Parliamentary elections, former Sierra Leone Peopleβs Party Young General Chairman, Mohamed Osman Sesay, Foday Lady Sesay ( both in Kabala)Β and Alfred Kanu Sesay of Ismaia village in the Koinadugu districtΒ on First (1st) of January defected to the opposition All Peopleβs Congress party ( APC)Β at the Katomba Two Orange plantation Garden in Kabala.
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Presenting the APC membership cards to Mohamed Osman Sesay and two others,Β the Leader and Presidential candidate ofΒ the APC in the July 28th elections, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma said; βBy virtues of my position as a leader of the APC,Β I accept our brothers into the fold of the APC and offer them all the facilities in the party.β He saidΒ that Mr. Sesay was a βstrong man in the SLPPβ but sees all reasons to come over to the APC.Β “Therefore I want to welcome him to the party.β
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Mr. Koroma further stated that the three SLPP men have foreseenΒ the future of Sierra Leone in the hands of the APC,Β thus their decision of coming over to the party can be beneficial to the entire Koinadugu district. He notedΒ that Foday Lady and his colleagues were tired of hearing news of the unfulfilled promises made by the SLPP government andΒ that isΒ why they have bid farewell to the SLPP.
Mr. KoromaΒ saidΒ thatΒ people are moving from the SLPP because they believeΒ that in the reformation of the APC and the quality leadership of Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma.
Mr. KoromaΒ saidΒ thatΒ people are moving from the SLPP because they believeΒ that in the reformation of the APC and the quality leadership of Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma.
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In responses,Β one of the defected members,Β Mohamed Osman Sesay,Β told COCORIOKO.NET thatΒ heΒ wasΒ disappointed with the leadership of the SLPP for not living up to the expectation of the masses.Sesay , who is of the view that the SLPP has failed, further admited failure on the part of his former party.Β “Thatβs why I have made up my mind to come onboard the APC political ban wagonΒ to make the necessary change. “
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