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The chairman of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, Alfred Peter Conteh has ordered the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) to publish the data for the 2023 election results.
The APC Chairman, in an open letter to the Commission, said that a publication of the results will clear all doubts as to who won the 2023 presidential election. He further said that a release of the results would justify the claims made by the APC that they won the 2023 presidential election. Conteh said that this claim by the APC could mean that the then-incumbent Julius Maada Bio couldn’t have won in the first round as announced by the ECSL.
He said, “curtail this democratic fiasco on behalf of all peace-loving Sierra Leoneans, and for the sake of democracy, peace, and stability in Sierra Leone, I submit that the ECSL release the nationwide disaggregated results of 24th June 2023 to put this avoidable disgraceful aspect of our country’s image behind us.”
Conteh furthered that the refusal of Commissioner Mohamed Konneh to publish the results has deprived Sierra Leoneans of their rights.
“It is an electoral injustice. Electoral injustice must be vehemently frowned upon by all Sierra Leoneans, not just the APC supporters,” Conteh said.
The APC Chairman said the ECSL’s refusal to release the results will only dampen “the integrity of the ECSL” under the leadership of Konneh.
He further made a clarion call to his APC compatriots to join him in requesting “the nationwide disaggregated results of 24th June”.
He concluded by affirming the publication of the results is a “moral obligation” of the ECSL and will further put to rest the doubts posed by some observers and Sierra Leoneans about who won the presidential election in 2023.
Critics of Conteh said they remain surprised by his recent stance considering that he was among the few senior APC members who openly congratulated Maada Bio on his reelection in June last year. Be what it may be, it is clear that the APC Chairman is serious about this request and looking at his records, could take further actions against the ECSL.
How many APC party chairmen do we have in Sierra Leone. This writer seems to be misleading the gullible population into tormoil, an act that’s tantamount to incitement and punishable by law
That evidence could not be destroyed because it has a great role to play as far as our democracy is concern.
Now you guys have started going to the point, we need to forget about Maada Bio for now, he is not our problem yet, our problem is the ECSL Boss.
Perfectly right sir,
We are just look from afar.
Who made him chairman of APC
Where your chairman ship came from?
Where your chairman ship came from and this time around we are not going to encourage any rubbish from anyone ok
Were was He all this while.
We haveing more than eleven thousands polling stations around the country none of this polling stations results hasn’t been published by the electoral commissionerthose results could not be destroyed because they had great role to play in our democracy particularly when it comes to do with our elections.I hope that could be included in our electoral laws.
A precedent I guess. As Saloneman famous for copy bad tin, the Bio/Konneh feat will surely be repeated. No respite for the people of Saloneman, you can say.
I wonder why ECSL is denying us access to 2023 elections results. Now even the past elections results have been removed from their website, let alone 2023. This really bad for our country
Sierra leone is the only country where elections results are not published because the assumed winner is not confident of his winning.