Why Are The SLPP, APC Spin Masters Fooling Their Supporters?
For God’s sake, it is crystal that authorities at the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) are quite aware of what they have obtained from the March 7th elections. This is largely because they had party agents in all polling stations and are very organized in terms of structures across the country.
This puts them in a very comfortable position to know whether they have won or not and am quite sure that the loser already knows, but only playing pranks with their very supporters who have the tendency to go haywire if they hear of something contrary.
Both parties are machinating figures from the so called tally centers and directly send them to their support base. What if we get something contrary from the constitutionally mandated body, NEC, what would happen? We are watching you, APC and SLPP, and we will take you to task if anything wrong happens. Lonta.
STILL WAITING ON NEW FIRST LADY PARARELL ANNOUNCEMNT OF RESULT
The public is still waiting on the First Lady at NEW to publish their pararell result as NEC has already announced 75% of polling stations. We have not heard her all these few days as she had been all about the first 48 hours when the polls closed.
Let her produce her evidence now that both parties are claiming to having won on the first ballot. This would ease off the already tense atmosphere. We are still to hear the very much important findings and recommendations with regards the polls.
The EU/OM, EISA and the Commonwealth Observation Groups have all done their work and gone ahead to produce very explicit preliminary recommendations whiles NEW, the local group, is still working on tallying figures they got from the respective polling centers.
Being a local observer group, NEW would be in a better position to indentify what they observed and make recommendations they would proffer. But now that they are very focused on results, they have deprived Sierra Leoneans this opportunity, of which the donors are spending their monies on.
We are waiting on your preliminary report, please. We are advising your donors to rethink and caution you that, this is not what they are spending their monies for.
ALIE KABBA AND HIS COMPLAINS
The great Campaign Chairman of the green team was highly charged 24 hours after the polls to outline a number of plans, which, according to him, the ruling APC has devised to rig the elections.
As both the Local and International press were getting briefing on Friday the 9th March,2018 at Radisson Blu from the various international observers, on the conduct of the polls and counting at the respective polling stations, the observers have given a clean bill except for other minor institutional and legal issues.
The SLPP Campaign Chairman was busy making unsubstantiated claims against the very much credible IRN and NEC. His accusations were very trivial and he was merely blowing an alarm and creating unnecessary tensions. Few days after the NEC announcement of the 75%, in which the SLPP had taken the lead, the party Chairman was quoted as saying they have complete trust in NEC and its leadership. So what was he saying? Would he not come back and cry foul should things go awry?
On the IRN accusations, the Coordinator, Ransford Wright, was quick to send these allegations down the drain.
We have known the IRN to be an independent and credible institution that does not have anything to do with politics. How can the highly charged Chairman move about accusing everybody?