Now that the deified leader of the APC has eased into retirement the situation that has obtained for his replacement is no different from bedlam.The filling up of soil of a fallen cotton tree is not the same as filling that of a palm tree.That is the kind of scenario that the followership find themselves in .They have been left in the lurch by ex-President Ernest Koroma.
It is sad and curious that a national political party that has been in governance on more than one occasion could be shopping for a leader outside its ranks .With guile Ernest Koroma emerged like a beach tree that overshadowed the saplings around him rather than an Oak tree that allowed trees to grow up all around .The impression that they are giving is that all of the 28 candidates who vied for the leadership of the party were mediocre and run-of-the –mill which is why they could peer outside their party circles .
Surprisingly there has been deafening silence from the party executives about publications in more than one newspaper that the party was now trying to lure leaders of two other political parties that secured seats in the last elections. It is a last ditch attempt which is bizarre to say the least. Earlier, running out of ideas the party had hurriedly set up a 9 –man committee to do according to the National Chairman & Leader a forensic investigation into the circumstances leading to the party’s humiliating presidential loss to the Sierra Leone Peoples Party presidential candidate. They had even called on certain of their Leaders to resign.
Some citizens have been wondering whether the APC party enthusiasts really meant to seduce those leaders with their respective manifestoes or whether it was just meant to spite them for their failure.
The narrow-minded enthusiasts reasoned ‘’ With KKY we can regain Kambia district and all the votes that we lost to the National Grand Coalition (NGC) in the Western Area’’,an APC political analyst said in weighing the advantages of wooing KKY to join APC,adding that the same goes for Chief Sam Sumana .What has not dawned on those zealous party members is that the two prospective leaders they are targeting have only circumscribed influence in Kambia and Kono districts respectively. They have the elderly like the learned Dr. Abdulia Conteh, women like Zainab Bangura ,and young like Chernor Bah and yet those party rebels can decide to act as if these are all not fit for purpose.
It looks like there are breakers ahead for the APC in their rudderless state and that they are likely to have some splits with some opting for the SLPP,the NGC and the C4C.All this is happening in the absence of the tin god they created who could have held the loose congeries together