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Member of Parliament for the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC), Abdul Kargbo, has revealed that his party will challenge the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) in court following their announcement of the Presidential results on Tuesday.
“We will seek legal means because that is what our party believes in,” Kargbo said.
During an interview with Radio Democracy, Kargbo also disclosed pitfalls at the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) Tally Centre in Port Loko, North-Western Region.
“No one was shown the RR forms, and inputting of figures was done in secrecy,” Kargbo revealed in the interview.
He said the process was flawed because they could not confirm whether what they had was the same as what was being inputted by the ECSL.
“We were assured (by ECSL) that they would give us details of what they have inputted to cross-check and verify with what we have,” the APC Parliamentarian said.
He added that they had confidence in the Commission after the assurance and were left surprised when 60 percent of the results were announced by the Chief Electoral Commissioner, Mohamed Konneh.
“60 percent of the results should have included the 300 stations in Kambia, but when it was announced, Kambia results were not even at the Tally Centre.
“We asked where they got the Kambia results, and we were told that the results were still in the field,” he said.
He said the practice breached provisions in the Public Elections Act because the results were uncertified.
In response, the National Secretary General of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Umaru Napoleon Koroma, supported the main opposition’s decision to challenge the result legally.
“I’m happy they are going to take the legal means,” Koroma said.
President Bio was announced as the winner with just over 56 percent and was sworn in on the same day.
The leadership of the APC detested the result, claiming that it was rigged by some of Bio’s party members and the ECSL.
With S/L as a Democratic county all we needed was free and fair election.
The right thing must be done.🙏🗳🇸🇱🫂
What justice you think you will get in reporting a child to his/ her rogue mother? Going to these SLPP courts is like legalizing the illegality. Mind you, that’s another way of making law; by court precedence.
Let the sleeping dog 🐕 lie
APC don’t bother to go to the court you did well know that the courts is gorvern by Nadda bayo as was called by the Kenyan president, don’t bother waste your time , I will advise that you guys don participate in any of the following ,
member of Parliament mayor , councillor , una just left all tin gee dem nr den wan power
Sure the right thing must be done, but the right thing has been done already.
APC if you take this matter to court some of us will disown you as our party.
Plz, plz,plz, let’s allow them to get drunk with this power. God’s judgement is about to fall so don’t fight for God
Leaders are called and ordained by God and not by manipulation
This is the battle between King David and King Saul
Just wait for God to decide. Tnk you
One APC one Sierra Leone. God bless us all
Please 🙏 APC members think wise don’t waste your time to this corruptive courts we have in sierra Leone they are all SLPP supporters so please 🙏 I advise you to wait for the international community to handle this lower animals call SLPP government
The right thing must be done as a democratic country sl. All what we needed was free and fair election/s.
This is the first time this happened in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 rigging election and treating to kill innocent observers especially NEW ? we the people of Sierra Leone calling the international body to set an example and put stop to this behavior in African, too much of killing for the past five years and rigging election is on acceptable.
Abdul Kargbo and others, if wunna try this nonsense say wunna da go na court we the grass root of APC, we go curse wunna mama tay we tyre.
So wunna nor try da nonsense day yah.
For God sake, way the court way wunna da go seek justices. SLPP Maada Bio court. Wunna try this mess ba, wunna go srr we wrong sid den.
Somtem Maada Bio don bribe wunna money na ee make, wunna wan do this nonsense.
If wunna try this nonsense enn, we the grass root we go curse wunna mama den tay we tyre.
Wunna nor try da nonsense day please.
ONLY FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD