The SLPP should think twice now for 2018
The miracle of winning an election especially presidential election is not by ensuring fighting among one another but concerted efforts to choose the right person for victory.
If the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) means well to take over the reins of leadership after Ernest Bai Koroma in 2018, the party needs a competent, popular and reliable character from the north.
Only a few years before the 1996 elections, the SLPP had a search light in search of the right person to lead the party. It became clear that the only individual that was competent enough to take the challenge was the late President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. And indeed, we saw the northern contribution towards the party either as ethnic or regional support to SLPP as a result of the late President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. But as I see it now, the SLPP are more engaged in fighting each other and have dropped the concept of unity in their fold.
I know that the contenders from the south-east may not want to hear or listen to what I have mentioned about a northerner to lead the SLPP for 2018. But this is a fact about political analysis geared towards having victory at the end of the day. It is easy for a northerner to split the north if he is popular, competent and reliable. It is equally possible as a fine testimony of the nugget of truth.
Mind you, the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) has interfered with the just concluded national census results, which has been controversially observed by many quarters, including the main opposition SLPP and People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). Already, there have been critical comments about the provisional results and opinion polls gauged suggest that a good number of Sierra Leoneans are not satisfied with the so-called provisional results.
The People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) has issued a document of objection to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to withhold any boundary delimitation until further notice. Copies of this objection have been circulated to appropriate authorities from within and without, but it is as if the SLPP is under pressure from within, which is seemingly bringing them down the ladder for 2018. The emerging development in the APC can easily be anchored if the main opposition continues to fight themselves for the leadership of the party. It is good to be ambitious but vaulting ambition can lead to destruction. As the controversies continue to feature in the SLPP, the APC will take advantage of that for their political survival for a third term of office after the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections. This is food for thought for the SLPP, for the coveted seat of power.
By Felix Fofoh
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