By Thomas Dixon
FREETOWN, Sep 28 (SALONE TIMES) – Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has told his party congregation that he is tired with politics and want to retire as a statesman.
He made this statement as he was unanimously endorsed by the 21 Man Committee to chair the Emergency Court- Ordered Convention of the main opposition All People Congress (APC).
“It’s time to be truthful to one another! It is time for me to retire as a statesman. I am tired. Whether you like it or not, I am going,” Koroma insisted.
Adding that: “I am here with mixed feeling. I am very sad because it is the court that will allow us to sit down as a political party. It is not the spirit of the APC or the APC we inherited. No matter the palaver but in the third night we should be able to settle it.”
He explained the situation which almost break the party at the Gooding’s Hall between President Siaka Steven and his Vice President SI Koroma, a situation he said almost broke the party but was to resolve in the third night.
“We should be able to resolve matters with ourselves and not to be insistent on going to court. It is because of the bigger picture of the APC that I decided to come because I have said to myself that I won’t attend a court-ordered convention,” Koroma emphasized.
He explained that he accepted all the responsibilities of the party because he wants the party to move on, calling on others to show the APCness and the comradeship and not just lip-servicing the word ‘comrade.’
Koroma revealed that they don’t have problems with the SLPP or the government but they have problems with themselves and that the real problem in the APC is the flag-bearership.
