By Richard Ngevao
The leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) has once again expressed "regret" for his 2007 decision to support the then opposition leader, Ernest Bai Koroma in the run-off election between the APC and SLPP. Charles Margai's support was seen as crucial to the APC's victory.
Addressing a meeting in Moyamba last weekend, Margai said he had supported president Koroma in the hope that such a move would bring about the necessary changes that the people of Sierra Leone were yearning for. He said "the people of this country are now suffering...things are not how they should be. I regret my decision to support Ernest Koroma in the 2007 run-off election".
The PMDC leader ruled out any possibility of him resigning from politics saying, “I am yet to see any competent person to lead this country to the promised land...it would be an injustice to the nation if I resigned from politics, because the people of Sierra Leone need me the most".
In Bo, the PMDC Regional Chairman, Tony Alie thanked supporters of the party for their relentless efforts and concern demonstrated during the period of their leader's recent arrest and detention. He said the incident had rejuvenated the spirit of all PMDC supporters to reflect on the past in strategising possible means by which to take the leadership of the country from the incumbent government come 2017.
In his key note address, Charles Margai said that before now, he had been known as "the bulldozer". He said his new title is "the jungle lion".
He told his supporters that President Koroma had already campaigned for him for the 2017 elections and that "those bearing the greatest responsibility for the retrogression of Sierra Leone will pay in their own coin".
