Let us discuss about Maada Bio
{Courtesy: Hashim Williams- Voices of Sierra Leone: www.VOSL.net}
If Bio think President Koroma is a good President and that he has done a lot of great things to fight ebola and Helping the Flood Victim then I think Bio shouldn't even questions the President if he deccided to Run for Third term neither that he should be thinking to Challenge any APC member Running for the highest office.
Why Bio has been Praising this President?
Why Bio never question the Mismanagement of Ebola Missing Money?
Why Bio will not help to Unite the SLPP
Party?
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MAADA BIO IS IN FREETOWN NOW BUT LOOK AT THAT WEIGHT.
{Courtesy: Suliaman Forna}
It shows a sign of someone who has just been idling around without doing much productive work or engagements with the community he has been residing in. Not even doing exercises. It's also a small sign of depression.
What we are waiting to hear from Bio is the following:
What other experiences he has outside military life.
What professional skills he has developed over the years (over 19 yrs ago) since he left the army.
What related field has he worked over the years that he can show us.
Did he retire from anything.
What did he study. Did he ever used his study experiences or is he just like them where they are showed the ingredients but have never even cooked food for people to eat.
How was he making money a year or does he just depend on wealth he stole from Salone when him and his rag tags took power.
But as Sierra Leone is still full of the gullible poor living with less than a dollar a day THEY CAN EVEN DANCE FOR SATAN. DID WE NOT DANCE FOR FODAY SANKOH AND JOHNNY PAUL.
SO, what new things can Maada tell us that we have not learnt about since 2012. WHAT IS REALLY NEW.
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Nothing new, nothing impressive and no hope with Julius Bio: Yankuba Kai-Samba
OCTOBER 12, 2015
By: Yankuba Kai-Samba
A very good morning to all my fellow SLPP. I also extend a very good morning to my fellow citizens of Sierra Leone. Yesterday, Sunday Julius Bio returned to Sierra Leone fresh from university of Bradford with a doctorate degree. Most people would have been sending their CVs to employers to look for a job. But it seem that Bio is either unable to secure an employment to support himself and his many children he has left behind with different women overseas or as his paopa supporters insists, God had ordained him to rule Sierra Leone. I am not going in to a biblical argument with the paopas on this. But yesterday, on his arrival, he was welcomed by a crowd including the mende debul Gorboi. His handlers had chartered vehicles that transported people from the provinces as well. In all, it was a planned show of crowd, which gave the impression that Bio is popular. However, this is nothing new to Sierra Leoneans. Anyone who is seeking high office can organise people, hired okada riders and performers to attend his occasion as long as he is able to pay. I am sure people like Kandeh Yumkella,Andrew Keili, Ali Kabba and John Benjamin will organise a bigger crowd when their campaign really got underway. There are huge unemployment in Sierra Leone across all age groups but especially amongst the youths. So it is easy for people to engaged in such festivals even if they are non committed supporters. As a social Scientist by academic discipline, I was trained not to accept things uncritically. I always look at the bigger pictures,the blind spot, which people don’t bother with, and not simply follow others sentiments. When the uncritical mind look up at the Sun or moon in the sky, it would appear to him that they are moving. But the truth is that the sun doesn’t move round the earth, it is the earth that goes round. The people of Sierra Leone have seen far bigger crowds in both 2007 and 2012 elections that SLPP lost. In the last 2012 election under Julius Bio it was crowd as usual on the streets of Freetown that was enough to convince the uncritical mind and the gullible. The same sea of people carpeted the streets of Freetown in 2007 that the late SLPP NEC chairman Jah confidently declared that the SLPP had already won that election and the party was only waiting for voting to take place. In both 2007 and 2012 SLPP lost the elections despite the hundreds of thousands of party supporters on the streets. In the case of 2012 under Julius Bio it was a straight humiliating defeat for my party. Thus crowds surrounding politicians can be deceptive. Nothing new,nothing impressive and no hope with Bio if the party delegates made another mistake in re-electing him as the flag bearer based on his acclaimed popularity. APC is the incumbent,they are strong and awash with money and resources. They are extremely good at the politics of self preservation no matter what internal problems they have or their popularity rating dwindling. They are ruthlessly uncompromising in strategic innovation on how to win an election. While the SLPP delegates elected Julius Bio on what he told them that he was the only one to stand up to APC expected violence fire for fire and sadly the 238 delegates who voted for him believed that dangerous nonsense. But during the election there were no violence. The era of naked political violence in elections are over. Therefore Bio was elected on false premise and campaign on policies that were inconsistent with his questionable NPRC records. There were over 1 million registered voters in Freetown alone in the last election. The SLPP under Bio performed worse than any other SLPP leader before him including not winning a single parliamentary or council seat in either Freetown and the North were SLPP had 3 MPs before Julius Bio lost all under his leadership. The SLPP will need to have at least 60% of those votes in Freetown, 20% in the north to have any chance of winning. Bio was a poor presidential candidate in 2012 and he would be the wrong presidential candidate to be trusted by voters in these critical regions and seriously compete with any APC presidential candidate that succeeds president Koroma. SLPP needs a presidential candidate who can fight and win votes in areas we have consistently performed extremely poorly with the exception of President Kabba , who was completely unknown in politics but pulled a spectacular election successes in both Freetown and the north in 2002 . Unlike APC , the SLPP is racked up with debts and so broke that it cannot expect to campaign and win the 2018 general election. Julius Bio is not capable to raise the level of funds the party needs to mount a serious election campaign. In the last election Andrew Keili through his business contacts raised 300 million leones and handed it to Bio for the campaign. Ambassador Allie Bangura paid for Bio to travel to Ghana to receive medical treatment after someone busted his head. Bio has a very poor international image and America had barred him from travelling to USA. He even failed to attend a fund raising occasion organised by the SLPP north America after he was elected as the party’s flagbearer in 2011. Julius Bio is the APC favoured SLPP flagbearer aspirants. He poses no threats to the APC’s dominance in Freetown and North. And because of his NPRC excess baggage he is a fair game for the APC. For Bio to be reelected as the SLPP’s flagbearer is of immense strategic values to the APC election campaign in 2018. I strongly believe and I am convinced about this, that APC fears Andrew Keili, Kandeh Yumkella,Ali Kabba and John Benjamin. The APC are in awe of SLPP electing a centrist presidential candidate who can appeal to voters in the regions they control and would like instead to have Bio again as their opponent because Bio is being tagged as an extremist, with violent supporters, poor records and hegemonic mende politics. Whether this is true or not, it is a stain that Bio cannot erased. Yumkella is a world statesman and through his contacts with world leaders and international business men and investors,he has the capacity to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to match APC. He had also rattled the APC with his strategy of building a ground coalisation as the most viable way of unseating the APC. Andrew Keili also through his business contact has the capacity to raise huge funds to support the SLPP campaign if he wins the flagbearership. He is also a centrist with clean records and very popular in Freetown. Although a mende with his ancestry Mandingo from Guinea,he is often mistaken for a Creole. He has a forensic understanding of what is wrong in Sierra Leone and as a policy guru he can tear the APC to pieces during national election campaign. Andrew is also respected in the international community having had an excellent working relation with them through his CEMMAT engineering consultancy. At the beginning of this year, Andrew Keili held a meeting with officials of the rulling conservative party at their party’s headquarter in London where he discussed governance issues and the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. He also addressed the Oxford research group and the African research centre. These institutions have impact on our politics and policies in Sierra Leone,so it was a very useful meetings. Ali Kabba is an authentic mobilizer and inspirational speaker. He has managed an organization that promotes and support African Americans in America. He is articulate and fearless but responsible . He can also lead from the front. SLPP have an abundance of presidential materials . Elections are not won in south East or by south east votes. As a party,if we really wants to win, we have to think outside the box, check our primitive loyalty, abandon sentiments and look at Sierra Leone ‘s electorates voting patterns in the last two electrons that we lost from a dispassionate and objective view. Historically the SLPP core votes are between 38 to 42 and this has always being the situation with two contrasting exceptions. 1, Tejan Kabba pulled 70% of votes in 2002, the highest since SLPP came in to being. On the other hand Julius Bio pulled a dismal 37.4% in 2012 ,the smallest share of national votes in any competitive election. Bio had argued that the party should re-elect him so that he can top up the 37.4% but we as SLPP should be more ambitious than Bio. If he had failed to top up the 38.7% the party had in the second ballot of the 2007 election and 45% in the first ballot, I warn we should not gamble on him as we did in 2012 when Bio promised us victory,only to gave us excuses for his failure and incompetence. Leaders don’t give excuses or blame others when things go wrong. Leaders take full responsibility when things go wrong. The most bizarre political stunt is that Bio and his desperate paopas are using the claims of election rigging to appeal to SLPP to elect him again. To campaign on a failed platform is profoundly misleading and lurching to another defeat under Bio if elected again. I am as clear on this as the blue sky.
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