Concord Times (Freetown)

Sierra Leone: Margai May Strike Deal With SLPP

Rachel Horner

23 December 2008


Freetown — Leader of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) has started talks with the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the two may likely strike a compromise.

Charles Francis Margai, one time staunch member of the SLPP, left in 2005 to form his party that was said to have eventually helped the All Peoples Congress win the run off of the 2007 elections.

The lawyer-cum politician had broken the news right in front of his perceived ally President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was part of a gathering that was in Gbangbatoke for the burial rites of his late mother, Musu Fanny Momoh.

"After my mother's death, Alhaji UNS Jah led a SLPP delegation to sympathize with me and we talked tête-à-tête and agreed on the need to start talking," Margai told the large crowd, which included the first lady, the second lady and senior members of Koroma's cabinet.

High-ranking members of all three political parties were present.

Margai said his change in attitude started after the death of his mother. He revealed that since he pitched tent with the APC during the run-off he had never had any talks with the SLPP until he decided to include the names of some of its members in the obituary announcement.

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Margai noted that he would not rest until the APC, the PMDC, and the SLPP come together to give the president the necessary support to build this nation.

"Ernest Koroma is the people's choice, I supported President Koroma to clinch the presidency," he said.

"Leadership comes from God, and if you love your country, you would support the one who has undoubtedly been chosen by God."

Margai thanked President Koroma and his party for the moral and financial support since the funeral.

He said they made history in Gbangbatoke as Koroma was the first Head of State to visit the church.

He also thanked members of the PMDC "the youngest in the (political) family" for the unwavering support.

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Author: mayaski81
Wed Dec 24 03:12:46 2008

The political dynamics in Sierra Leone is never going to be strange for those of us who have stayed around the political trends in the country since post independence. There are two political parties-APC & SLPP. If you are not APC,then you are SLPP. Charles Margai is making all these rants because he knows PMDC is on its way of exiting the political arena in mother Sierra Leone. The problems emanating from PMDC is wholly and solely out of dictatorial approach which is not going to be accepted by people who have made dare sacrifices for PMDC thus the exit doors are signalling the extinct of PMDC. With all what Margai has said about SLPP and then coming up with positions of endorsing JBD-yes,they being friends(Cowan,JBD&Margai)for ever but I look at it as ploy to attract a way back for Margai to SLPP. Check the facts-JBD,PUWAI,E.O.GRANT and they likes of many others have pitch tent with APC not only today but regimes before this time that gave them recognition thus making me feel to crossover from one party to the other is never and will never be strange to me. Will it be surprising for all to know that Ex-Pres Kabba as chairman of the NPRC constitutional review committee did recommend that they parties named APC & SLPP should be banned from the political arena in Sierra Leone?Thank God some of the NPRC civilians were of the wisdom of letting parties run for governance if the people can give them their mandate-it's okay. Thus,let's political raps in Sierra Leone don't be surprising to any one of you all.

Author: jallohlaw
Fri Dec 26 19:35:41 2008

PHILOGICAL PAST TIME

Sir, we take exeception, principled and militant, to your averment that "[t]here are two parties ---(sic) APC & SLPP" since 'independence.'

First, the the 'parties' are the same, and the sameness, the objective identity, is constituted by THE SOUPIST STRUCTURE that was sired by the British Imperialists and Dictators. The fox, Milton, accepted the structure, lock, stock and barrel.

For a phenomenological description of the SOUPIST STRUCTURE, see, within this site, my "Phenomenological Destruction or Deconstruction (Aufbau) of Soupism."

AND, THE STRUCTURE PERSISTS.

Should you disagree with our postulate, then name one politically determinate DIFFERENCE between the 'two' parties within the socio-political theorizing of the mediation of intersubjective conflictual interests in the BOURGEOIS VERSION OF THE THEORY of democracy.

Accordingly, we are obliged to bracket the concept of 'independence.' We first destroy the concept that Sierra Leone ever cut its ties with British Imperialism. "To cut" means "to sever".

Now, where is the severing when the institutions of democratized Britain were imported into the political sphere in Sierra Leone, which was occupied by the Brits---illegally, to state the obvious---and stitched to an existing SOUPIST STRUCTURE, WHICH WAS CREATED BY THE BRITISH IMPERIALISTS to minimize the adminstrative costs attaching to the seized territory.

The principal purpose of soupism is to obviate the emergence of a NATION. And, that served the British Dictators quite well.

Unfortunately for the captured neo-modern, sub-altern slaves of soupified Sierra Leone, that gaping and soul searing absence equally serves the interests of Africanized soupists: from Milton, the fox, to EBK, the buffoon.

The implications of the theses averred are numerous, and some of them are explicated in the cited article supra.

AUTHORIZED AND ISSUED BY THE REFLECTIVE ALL AFRICA ANTI-SOUPIST OPPOSITION IN EXILE, AND NOW IN SIERRA LEONE, THE GAMBIA, GUINEA, SENEGAL AND LIBERIA, AND EXPANDING.

Author: kekuda
Mon Dec 29 20:20:54 2008

I tuink it is crazy to call Sir Milton a fox and Ernest Koroma a buffoon without explanation. By the way, what kind of construct is "soupism" anyway? How can an understanding of this empower the populace the populace?

Author: jallohlaw
Tue Dec 30 10:57:43 2008

We unreservedly deem it extremely boneheaded in the dickens to find that our opinion that Milton, whom you "Sir," but we never would, WAS A FOX, and that President Agnes, Prezo Nesto, bla, bla, bla, IS A BUFFOON, is "crazy" ABSENT AN EXPLANATION of your silly, psychobabble, pepeh dokta determination: "crazy."

WE have called Milton a fox, and an explanation thereof is given in the archives in OUR REPRESENTED postings in this site; as for the BUFFOON, THE MORON, THE CIVILIAN SOUPIST, KOROMA, not even the densest and most naive 'Sierra Leonean' would demand an explanation of those truth DISCLOSING predicates.

So, bobo pass go lay don na .... YA!

AUTHORIZED AND ISSUED BY THE REFLECTIVE WEST AFRICA ANTI-SOUPIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.

Author: bjlemoh
Tue Dec 30 21:39:39 2008

Charles Magai meant to destroy the S.L.P.P that gave birth to him and made him what he calls himself today. He failed with honors because he is a political prostitute that has virtually become a political corpse. He can not eat his cake and have it back. I suggest he stays away to await his buril. He is politcally irrevelent these days. Further mess in national politics is not his best interest.His political profile is of no good value, hence he has become a mathemtical cipher. S.L.P.P. is there to stay, A.P.C came out of S.L.P.P. and so on so forth. S.L.P.P. will repair the damage and move on with the people of Sierra Leone.

Author: jallohlaw
Wed Dec 31 00:57:46 2008

Soupist damage control: who cares about the "prostitution" of Margai?

If Margai is prostitute, then he is not alone: THE SOUPIST STRUCTURE would "transubstantiate" the LAMB into a "prostitute."

ACCORDINGLY, ALL SOUPISTS, THANKS TO THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF THE SOUPIST STRUCTURE, are "prostitutes," including AGNES, BIG WASE, BUFFOON KOROMA, a dude whose command of Freemell's lingua franca, Krio, and her Majesty's significative instrument, British English, is less than sophomoric, almost non-existent, although, we hear, he is krugba ka fof ka temne.

Bra, smell the coffee: APC EN SLPP NAR WAN;

Wake up, we say, from your dogmatic slumber (Kant): Mende, Temne, Limba, bla, bla, bla, don't matter: only Benjamins rock the THE SOUPIST STRUCTURE.

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