Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion Engage APC Stakeholders

The Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion engaged the leadership of the main opposition party, All People’s Congress (APC).

The Peace Commission is meeting with the main opposition more than a month after the party decided to boycott government and governance.

The APC party is yet to accept results announced by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) citing anomalies. The party has urged the ECSL to release election results by polling station rather than by district.

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) won the Presidential polls after the incumbent Julius Maada Bio won with just over 57 percent of total valid votes.

Weeks after the final results were announced the leadership of the APC intimated that they will boycott government and governance if their demands are not met. Members of parliament and other elected members later signed a dossier indicating their commitment to honour the party’s decision.

Meanwhile, President Bio has urged the leadership of the APC to work with him after he was inaugurated to serve his second term.

All efforts to resolve the issue has so far failed to succeed and some members of the public fear that the West African nation is slowly backsliding into a one-party state.

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| 2023-08-16 07:29:39

Maada Bio is the best leader the slpp has ever produced in the history of the party, so do not even go there by saying that the people of slpp get angry with him after tenure of his office. You apc people need to focus in your own problems and try to keep your house in order for the next elections okay. But sincerely speaking no one is complaining about my dear leader HE Bio, we love him so much, we cherish him so. So apc una go sedom saafu ya lunta.
Aina Ami Warner | 2023-08-16 05:51:57

A house that is divided in its self will not stand. APC is so divided and everyone sees during the campaign, apc was not able to do their party justice at all. Many APC members were leaving the party. How can you win an election when you were not able to campaign in certain districts. The people of Kono & souteasterners voted you apc out of governance . You don't need a rocket science to tell you that SLPP won this election free en fare. APC you know you loose the election but you just wanted to create confusion. You know what if slpp stole this election from apc let what plans you have this nation you will succeed but if slpp won this election free en fare may God exposed every evil plans against this nation in Jesus name.
lamin conteh | 2023-08-16 03:27:14

This writer is not honest with the truth. The slpp didn't won with 57%. The results was stolen by the slpp. Until we have justice there will be no peace because equal rights and justice usher in peace and national cohesion. ECSL should announced the results by polling station.
Akk | 2023-08-15 23:51:59

These peace commissions are all hypocrite to this nation the cannot speak the truth yet they want peace there can never be a peace where there is no truth What goes around comes around l hope the slpp will be ready to face the consequences cuz tin kin turn the the party can not remain in power forever
| 2023-08-15 22:24:09

If the elders and leaders of the SLPP did jot intervene now,they will pay a bitter price later after Maada leave their party.We don't want a repeat of history in this country. We need to progress this nation for ourselves and generations to come,but this tit for tat will not take us anywhere. If Maada steal this elections to remain in power,and the elders of the SLPP cannot come and speak truth to power to discourage him from backsliding our nation,let the elders of the SLPP know that Bio will never be the president of this nation for ever.Sir Albert Margai and Siaka Steven's tried that,but they are all gone and left us in that mess.When we are witnessing the same ugly incident about to occur,we need to put that to a stop.