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SLPP Flagbearer Application Dr. Bu-Buakei JABBI (GRAND CHIEF PATRON, SLPP: Membership No. 0005) STATEMENT OF FLAGBEARER FITNESS (As per Clauses 1 & 2 of the Rules and Regulations, 2010)
The Rules and Regulations of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) for the election of its Presidential candidate for the national Presidential elections of 2012 stipulate the submission of prescribed documents and compliance with certain basic criteria by an Aspirant/Applicant. They include a sealed letter of declaration of intent, a profile of the Aspirant’s life and history of membership of the Party, and a statement of his/her Flagbearer fitness and contribution to the Party.
Sep 2, 2010, 17:24
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“I’m trustworthy, capable and mature”-Dauda Tombo Bangura
Sierra Leonean politician Dauda Tombo Bangura has two new assignments. He has been mandated by the leadership of the ruling All People’s Congress(APC) to unite all members of the party in North America. The other assignment is to be in charge of fundraising as the party heads towards the 2012 elections. DTB, as he is popularly known, is a founding member of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), who, like many of his colleagues, decided to join the APC a couple of months ago. PMDC was an APC ally in the 2007 elections.
Sep 2, 2010, 17:22
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New People Online to Utilize New Technology
In what has now become a unique fixture in the New People Online style of journalism, “the double tag approach” the Editor and CEO interviewed SLPP Flag bearer candidates Alhaji Usman Boie-Kamara at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, August 17th 2010, Lawyer Alpha O. Timbo at 10:00 pm on the same date and Dr. Kadie Sesay on Thursday August 19th at 8:30 pm. We will feature the interviews from these candidates over the next three weeks in our series “Meet The Candidates For SLPP Flagbearers”.
Sep 2, 2010, 17:20
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Relief for APC as Koinadugu Chiefs Forgive Party Strongman
Yesterday ended the month of August but it also saw what could possibly be the end of a longstanding problem that had been giving the ruling APC party some quiet headaches. It is reported that when his Minister of Internal Affairs & Local Government reported that the brou-ha-ha that had threatened to split the APC party’s support within Koinadugu District has now been resolved, President Koroma, who also doubles as APC Leader, heaved a sigh of relief. The resolution of the Koinadugu impasse was done with the intervention of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Local Government & Rural Development, Hon. Dauda Kamara and his ministry officials and resulted in district stakeholders in the largest district in Sierra Leone yesterday publicly burying the hatchet following the APC Strongman and Local Council District Chairman, Councillor Bayuku Conteh going down on his knees to beg for forgiveness from the Koinadugu Paramount Chiefs.
Sep 1, 2010, 17:20
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As they pay Le230,000,000 in cash... SLPP Aspirants thank Awareness Times
A significant number of the 23 successful aspirants for the SLPP Flagbearer position have told Awareness Times yesterday that they were very grateful to this newspaper for our independent coverage of their party’s activities over the past few years. However what also came out very clearly from many of those who had been formerly recalcitrant to pay a non-refundable deposit to the party, was the fact that one of our recent news articles jolted them into realising they had been on the wrong path. Many aspirants now report that our last month’s article on how the failed SLPP Freetown Mayoral candidate for 2008 Elections had published a pamphlet calling for the party to take steps to avoid nominating men and women of straw (i.e: penniless) to contest elections, had made them realise the importance of what the party’s Executive had been trying to do with their laid-down Rule for non-refundable deposits.
Sep 1, 2010, 17:18
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Kadi Sesay & Alpha Timbo Resign to Contest Presidency
The erudite and charming erstwhile Deputy Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, Dr. Kadi Sesay and the smart and eloquent erstwhile SLPP Assistant Secretary-General, Lawyer Alpha Timbo, yesterday August 31st 2010 have both tendered their resignations from the SLPP National Executive in order for them to qualify for the position of Flagbearer/Presidential Candidate for the party in the 2012 Elections. They will be contesting against each other in a contest slated for next March 2011 for which a total of 23 aspirants have now passed the preliminary stage for contesting. Both of them are amongst the leading candidates so far who have a well-structured Campaign team in place advocating for them.
Sep 1, 2010, 17:16
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Lawyer Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi Assures SLPP
What their recent exercise in Declaration of Intent has proven is that the main opposition party in Sierra Leone has men and women of ‘timber & calibre’ as they say in neighbouring Nigeria. Lawyers, Engineers, Medical Doctors, University Lecturers, former Cabinet Ministers, Religious Leaders, a Paramount Chief, Ph.D Chemists, Administrators and other professionals have been lining up to pay the mandatory, non-refundable fee to lead the party as Presidential Candidate for the 2012 Elections. One of these great Sierra Leoneans is a Ph.D holder in Law, Dr. Bu-Buakei Jabbi, Esq. who in his Letter of Declaration of Intent issued yesterday stated, “In all the present circumstances of the national political situation in Sierra Leone, I assure the Party that my candidature will surely reap overall victory for it in the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2012”.
Sep 1, 2010, 17:10
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SLPP's John Benjamin Commends Hon. Elizabeth Alpha-Lavalie
Mr. John Oponjo Benjamin, National Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party, has yesterday commended sitting parliamentarian, Hon. Elizabeth Alpha-Lavalie for the position she publicly took against the woman slated to conduct the 2012 Elections, Dr. Christiana Thorpe. Benjamin said as National Leader, it was gratifying to him that a party member could so eloquently put the precise position of the party across.
Aug 31, 2010, 17:26
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Dr. Alpha T. Wurie Declares for SLPP Flag Bearer
The former Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the erstwhile SLPP government, Dr. Alpha Tejan Wurie on Monday 30th August 2010 made public his intention to contest for flag bear position of the party ahead of the National Delegates’ Convention slated for 2011. The auspicious ceremony took place at the Harry Yansaneh Hall of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists [SLAJ] Headquarters, Campbell Street in Freetown. Taking the podium to make his formal declaration, Dr. Wurie revealed that the name Alpha Tejan Wurie rings a bell in both the SLPP and national circles, a household name he said that reverberates in every corner of the country whenever it is mentioned.
Aug 31, 2010, 17:20
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Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) Complains Over Northernisation
The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is continuing to lament what they see as continuation of a Northern Agenda in the operation of the country. SLPP Leader John Benjamin is complaining that the SLBC Board seems to be repeating the ‘Northernisation’ agenda of President Koroma by first recommending as Director-General, a man who grew up in Bombali, up North and then appointing an indigene of Koinadugu, up North as Deputy Director-General. According to John Benjamin, he had “nothing personal” against Sana Samura whom he said “might be fully qualified”. He however asked “why should appointments now in this country come only from the North, the North, the North?”
Aug 30, 2010, 17:30
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SLPP Aspirants Pay One Hundred Million Leones
The race for the well coveted SLPP Flagbearer position has really heated up with aspirants falling in line to pay the stipulated initial deposit of Ten Million Leones each to a Special Bank Account before the candidate will be recognised as an aspirant. As of the close of Banking Business yesterday, August 26th 2010, Dr. Kadi Sesay, Lawyer Alpha Timbo, Engineer Usman Boie Kamara, Engineer Andrew Keili, Brigadier (rtd) Maada Bio, former Foreign Minister Momodu Koroma, former Energy Minister Emmanuel Grant, Paramount Chief Somanen Kapen II, Retired American Civil Servant Umaru Dumbuya and one other unidentified person had all paid the sum of ten million leones thus automatically swelling the Special Bank Account to the tune of Le100,000,000.
Aug 27, 2010, 17:18
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Tayyib Bah, SLPP’s Publicity Secretary Resigns
A long-expected resignation of the National Publicity Secretary of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) occured yesterday when he penned down a letter stating his resignation. The Letter, as shown to Awareness Times by a source within APC Government circles, was addressed to the SLPP Chairman John Benjamin but when this paper contacted Benjamin last evening, he expressed surprise over the issue saying he had not received any such letter even though he was at the SLPP Party offices until late last evening.
Aug 27, 2010, 17:16
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Judiciary says Journalist was in Contempt
The Master of the Law Courts, Elwyn Bailor, has yesterday August 26th 2010, told this writer that the August 18th FOR DI PEOPLE newspaper article misrepresenting the age of an 18 years old convict to be a 15 years old juvenile was contemptuous of the court as it made Magistrate Shyllon appear as having jailed a mere juvenile when the person jailed was considered to be an adult at the age of 18 years. He however confessed that, Judiciary “would have preferred for the Contempt matter to have been tried by another member of the Bench rather than by Magistrate Shyllon himself”.
Aug 27, 2010, 17:14
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APC Has Failed PMDC & Sierra Leone Women
The Women’s Leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Madam Rosalyn McCarthy has told the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation’s Women’s Programme hosted by Haja Kadi Johnson yesterday August 25th 2010 that “the APC has disappointed us”. Pressed further as to what she meant, she explained that when the PMDC was signing the alliance with the ruling All People’s Congress three years ago, they outlined certain policies that it was expected the APC-led Government would strictly abide with and one of these, she said concerned Women’s issues.
Aug 26, 2010, 17:16
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Solomon Berewa ‘Arises from the Dead’
It was a scene of sorrow at the funeral of the late SLPP strongman Alfred Sallia Fawundu last Sunday August 22nd 2010 in Bo City as thousands of SLPP members thronged up to Bo from various parts of the country to pay their last respects to one of their party’s greatest activists of recent times. However, their sorrow was partially assuaged when suddenly emerging in the crowd was the man who had been strongly rumoured all over the country as having passed away, Solomon Ekuma Berewa.
Aug 24, 2010, 17:20
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APC Develops Technical Problems as SLPP Newspaper makes I.B. Kargbo look funny
An allegation that Sylvia Blyden has been earmarked by opposition SLPP as Runningmate in 2012 Elections which was confidently spoken yesterday August 16th 2010 on a popular ‘Tea Break’ Radio Programme by Information Minister, Hon. Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, ended up making the poor Alhaji look funny in the eyes of many listeners especially as he claimed the allegation emanated from “Government Intelligence”.
Aug 17, 2010, 17:18
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Constituency 106 Gets SLPP “Saviour”
A young Sierra Leonean based in the United Kingdom who is currently has expressed his determination to alleviate the plight of his community in central Freetown. Edward Ernest Coker has become a household name in his community for his philanthropic gestures, the recent being the construction of 20 stand pipes to ease the perennial water crisis. In an exclusive interview with our reporter at his 15 Ball Street residence, off Circular Road in Central Freetown over the weekend, Mr. Coker said he was currently working with his community people to solve water supply problems which was very acute in that community with dug out water wells, stand pipes and the creation of job and vocational training facilities for the youth.
Aug 16, 2010, 12:13
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APC’s Editorial Team to “Debunk” Awareness Times
The Constitutional & Legal Section of the Editorial Team of the ruling APC party’s We Yone newspaper has yesterday stated their intention to “thoroughly debunk” the published assertion of Awareness Times’ Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden that APC Leader President Koroma was behaving like a Dictator insofar as his handling of the hiring and firing of the country’s Electoral Commissioners.
Aug 12, 2010, 17:26
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Alpha Timbo ‘Campaign Team’ Bails out SLPP Executive
A campaign team already formed ahead of formal declaration of intent for the flag bearer position of opposition SLPP for Hon. Alpha O Timbo on Tuesday 10th August 2010 donated to SLPP Executive members of Constituency 93 in Godrich as part of a goodwill gesture for the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan. Presenting the gifts on the group’s behalf, the Secretary to the team, Mr. Tony Moiforay noted that they were making such handsome donation to assist party Muslim members within the constituency for this blessed month.
Aug 12, 2010, 17:16
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SLPP Councilor Feeds the Aged at Goderich
The only SLPP councilor in the western rural district representing Ward 331 in Constituency 93, Goderich Village, Ibrahim Kabba aka ‘Small Borbor’ on Tuesday 10th August 2010 donated Ten 25 kg bags of imported rice and bails of used clothing to over two hundred aged people in that community. Receiving the donated items on behalf of the beneficiaries, the Village Headman, Mr. Mustapha Papa Kamara showered praises on Councilor Small Borbor for his continuous assistance and generosity towards his subjects. He called on them to rally round the councilor who he said had indicated adequately that he would represent them at all levels.
Aug 12, 2010, 17:14
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