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Thursday 24 November 2016

Sierra Leone News: Dr. Sam Sesay, Zainab Bangura, Alpha Khan, John Sisay Declares Interest For APC Presidential Ticket

As the contest to succeed His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma draws near, more names keep surfacing for the emblem carrier position of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) for the 2018 multi-level elections several names include but not limited to: Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay, Special Adviser to President Koroma; Dr. Abubakarr Sidic Alpha Khan, Special Adviser to President Koroma; Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Attorney General and Minister of Justice; HE Alimamy Petito Koroma, Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China; John Bornor Sisay, CEO, Sierra Rutile; Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources; Lawyer Kalokoh, a lawyer from USA; Haja Dr. Zainab Hawa Bangura, currently working at the UN.

One of the latest additions to swell the number of persons interested in the said position is Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay.

Dr. Sam Sesay was the former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security and he is currently serving as Special Adviser to His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.

 Ernest Dura Koroma, special political assistant to Dr. Sam Sesay, explained that Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay has always been true member of the APC.
“He join the All Peoples Congress (APC) back in 1976 at 39 Siaka Stevens street as part of the National Youth League (NYL) when Edward Tamba Kamara (commonly called ETK) was the Secretary General and the NYL was under the tutilage/leadership of the current speaker of Parliament Hon. SBB Dumbuya, Karankay, Romeo Doherty, Late John Bornor Sesay Patrick Ojong, Ambassador Alhaji MS Kargbo and many more were astute members at that period.”

According to a senior party official who preferred remained anonymity disclosed to our realiable source that Dr. Joseph Sam Sesay is the fittest amongst all to succeed President Koroma, should the APC want to emerge victorious come 2018.

Besides, he is currently one of the oldest members of the party, he added. Ernest Dura continued to say the APC should be in the hands of true APC members and not new comers who are only in the party to seek greener pastures.


The Secretary General of the party, Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh has said it on many media engagements that, the person who will succeed president Koroma will be a true and born APC member and not someone who just joined the party.


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