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Alhaji Bai Shebora Sumanoh Kapen-III, a former chairman and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party has officially joined the opposition All People’s Congress APC).
Kapen was welcomed to the APC at an event at the party headquarters in Freetown on Monday.
Speaking in an interview with Awoko, the former traditional leader who had led the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) both as Deputy National Chairman and Leader, and as National Chairman and Leader for six years from 2013 to 2018 said he is marveled by the political system of the APC.
“Yes, I had earlier said I will remain apolitical since I resigned from my former role as National Chairman and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, but at some point, I also decided in February to only support the APC presidential candidate Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara as a result of our relationship and to answer to the call by my brother-in-Law and Friend Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh,” he explained.
Chief Kapen also explained that “since I endorsed the candidacy of Samura Kamara in Makeni some three months ago, the APC grassroots supporters and their senior officials have been engaging me to join their party and I’ve rationally pondered about that and finally on Monday afternoon at the Kambia District APC party office, I will officially declare for the APC as a member,”
When asked to share additional reasons for his wanting to join the APC, he further said it’s the political system of the APC that marvels him and he’s “on the move to not only have a feel of the system” but to as well use his “vast political experience to help the struggling party grow,” with his immediate task “being to work with other members of the APC to win the upcoming general elections come June 24 this year.”
His switching to the APC is relatively not significant. He is not a household name as far as the Sierra Leone political landscape is concerned.
Highly welcome sir, am well impressed with your decision as others did by joining the Slpp.
I pity him because he has lost balance long ago and looking for where to lean
IBRAHIM TUMKARA, that’s your opinion i think all the people who are declaring for the SLPP are all important is that’s not so?.
You know sometimes we have to be rational in our dealings , this color, color system in Sierra Leone will not help us.
So it high time we change our mentality towards politics.
Let’s us change our attitude.
SLPP has created a real mess and the people of Sierra Leone can’t wait to trash them out!
Somano Kapen is not politically relevant. Like Charles Margai, Kapen has no political capital to bring to the APC. They can’t even convince their own house holds to support the APC. How can a politician cherish opposition? He will die in opposition. The few progressives in the APC have joined the SLPP because their eyes are open and cannot be lied to or deceived. The politically irrelevant ones are joining the APC like Kapen and Margai.
U can’t say they have no political relevance. Every politician has their dominance and with their vast knowledge they can advice APC on the tactics their formal party wanna pulled. Every cross carpet is a big loss and expose