As the June 24th, 2023 elections draw closer and different politicians switch political parties, Hon. Sara Emerson Lamina, the former leader of the Coalition for Change (C4C) party in parliament, has explained his reasons for joining the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and predicted that the party would win eight seats in the upcoming elections.

Lamina stated that his transfer was due to the advice of the majority of his constituents who elected him to parliament in the 2018 election.

He made these statements in an interview with the Nationalist Newspaper, where he also explained his reason for leaving his first political party, the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC), in the previous election and moving to C4C, and now to the SLPP.

Lamina stated that his transfer was due to the advice of the majority of his constituents who elected him to parliament in the 2018 election.

He also cited the APC’s failure to rectify wrongs done to him and former Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana as his reason for leaving the party.

Lamina also criticized other C4C members of parliament who formed an alliance with the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), calling them “lightweights” who have done nothing worthwhile in their constituencies. He alleged that some of these MPs went to Parliament for personal gain.

He highlighted some of the SLPP’s achievements in Kono District, including 24-hour electricity, the construction of Kono University, and the ongoing construction of a highway leading from Kono to neighboring Liberia, which he believes will facilitate international trade.

Lamina promised to deliver Kono’s vote for President Maada Bio’s second term and to lead the charge for the SLPP’s successive election victories.

He predicted that the SLPP would win eight seats in Kono District in the June 24th, 2023 elections.

Hon. Saa Emerson Lamina was one of the founding members of the C4C party and was the Leader of the party in the just-dissolved fifth Parliament of the Second Republic, making him the youngest Opposition Leader in the history of the Parliament of Sierra Leone and one of the youngest ever Members of Parliament to represent Kono District. He was also a Parliamentary-award-winning Chairman of the Mines and Minerals Committee and a Member of the Organization of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States- OACPS/ European Union EU Parliament.