President Koroma
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All People’s Congress party, Robin Fallay says he will launch an "Extra Time Campaign" next week in the Eastern Region for President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Fallay told the local Star Line radio in Kenema that President Koroma had done "visible developments" and needed an "extra time to do more".
Fallay would not however state the duration of the extra-time, but it comes amid fevered speculation that the president and his party intend pursuing an additional two years to his current five-year mandate which ends at the end of 2017.
He urged the people to support the campaign.
Fallay's campaign comes in the heels of a vociferous campaign led by Leonard Balogun Koroma last year, calling for a third term for the president. That was met with outspoken condemnation prompting a denial by State House. Balogun, who had been the campaign coordinator for the re-election of the president, was later appointed Minister of Transport and Aviation.
Kenema District Publicity Secretary of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party has referred to the campaign by Fallay as "an incitement of the President against the 1991 constitution" of the country which entrenches a mandatory two five-year terms for president.
Brima Dawson Kuyateh told Politico that Fallay wanted to discredit the president whom he said had assured the entire world during that he had no intention to hold on power.
Kuyateh said the presidency was not the property of the APC or the president to change the constitution at will, but rather belonged to all Sierra Leoneans. He described the "extra time" notion as "undemocratic, misleading and a recipe for conflict".
(C) Politico 10/04/14
