Former APC Deputy Minister of Lands, Youth, and Labour, Daniel Ngaima, together with his supporters has declared allegiance for the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) ahead of the June general elections.

Ngaima and his supporters on Tuesday 21 March 2023 commenced their campaign for President Julius Maada Bio’s second term in Baiwala Town, Dea Chiefdom  on Tuesday 21 March 2023.

As the country approaches the June 24 elections, many interparty movements have been witnessed including the recent one involving former opposition APC Minister, independent MPs and others who have declared for the ruling party.

President Bio has received more declarations in the eastern region including the one. The President received former supporters and members of the opposition All People’s Congress, APC, and the Coalition for Change, C4C, and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change, PMDC respectively.

“His Excellency, President Julius Maada Bio, I am pleased and overwhelmed with the real development strides you are making in the country. From your human capital agenda to women’s empowerment, girl child protection, and other development across the country, you have done well,” the deputy ministe said.

In referencing his work experience and different movement he added that;

 “I have served in many capacities, especially as deputy minister in the APC government under the ticket of the PMDC. I was deputy minister of lands, then deputy minister of youth, and later deputy minister of labour. However, the pace at which your government is taking development in the country is laudable.

“Today, I come to my former party, the party of our ancestral fathers. His Excellency, I am assuring you and your government that all the votes in this part of the country will be cast for you, and there will be no runoff come June 2023,” he assured.

The President also received over 90 former supporters of opposition parties in Jojoima Town, who declared to support his campaign because of his vision for the country. The opposition party supporters were accompanied by their former Member of Parliament, Regina Tiangay Songa, who informed that “the decision for their declaration was to recognise the tremendous work by the President in transforming their chiefdom and the country in particular”.

In Segbwema Town, Jawei Chiefdom, former independent Member of Parliament, Hon. Quintin Salia Konneh, and all his supporters for the SLPP, while he assured of championing President Bio’s second term campaign to secure all the valid votes in that part of the country.

President Julius Maada Bio, who doubles as the leader of the SLPP, welcomed all the new members, saying that the party believed that unity was important in rebuilding the country.

“This is the best thing you have done, to come back to your party. As our slogan says ‘One Country, One People’, let us put all hands on deck to make our country a great nation,” he urged.