The former vice president under the erstwhile All Peoples’ Congress (APC) government, Victor Bockarie Foh is quickly becoming a political jester cooling off the stress and tension in the political arena based on his comic utterances he has been making against his former party and boss. The name Victor Foh in the politics of Sierra Leone has been viewed as sober minded politician having the country at heart but not until when he started acting comedy on different political occasions of the SLPP that the gullible society came to the reality that the name Victor Foh is now meant for comic political relief than a sober minded Sierra Leonean.
Lately, the statements of the former vice president cum political jester against his former APC party and boss, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has revealed that Victor Foh should not be trusted in politics taking into consideration that he will ended up making jokes over serious issues pertinent to the development of the country.
In 2011, Victor Bockarie Foh served as the APC National Secretary General leading to the 2012 elections. And when the then opposition SLPP party nominated President Bio as flagbearer, he congratulated the SLPP for their convention held but uttered that ‘the SLPP delegates made a mistake to nominate Julius Maada Bio,’ whom he said has blood in his hands, adding that late former President Kabbah and late former vice president Solomon Ekuma Berewa have said that ‘Maada Bio is somebody who cannot win an election.
During 2015, when the relationship between former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and Chief Sam Sumana got soured, Foh who was the country’s Ambassador to China, fled from China with his intention to settle the truce and, he made it clear that if former VP Sam Sumana resigned, he was going to resign also. But between the split of a seconds, the name Victor Foh was announced to be the se;lected vice president a move in which many political analysts have described as political chameleon as he whole heartedly and warmly embraced the position, despite the huge and heavy criticism by the then SLPP opposition members, CSOs and the media.
Giving his maiden speech as selected Vice President at State House, Mr. Foh said he does not have any special agenda because the agenda of his Boss is his agenda and if his Boss said resign tomorrow he will start today. He said that in China the President is not only seen to be respected but worship him as their god and said that he will do the same thing to his Boss. “If Ernest asked him to resign tomorrow I will resign today,” one of his most persuasive and cajoling statement ever made.
The poster child of un-successive regimes is now adding more salt to the wounds of his former party by calling and addressing them with all sorts of names.
Based on his lengthy stay with the party and a senior member for over four full decades, the party highest decision making body thought it fit to select Mr. Foh as Vice President. After he had served as VP from 2015-2018 and his unsuccessful bid to the flagbearer of the APC during 2018 polls as he showed keen and high interest, Victor Foh went on the rampage by opening the Pandora’s box of his former party. The former aspiring flagbearer of the APC has described his former party as ‘a party of thieves,’ and did not stop at that he described them again as ‘a corrupt bunch of people,’ adding that the party is not fit for its purpose. And after the selection of Dr. Samura Kamara as the 2018 flagbearer by Foh’s former Boss, Victor Foh described Dr. Samura as ‘a bad market’ and boldly told the party that he will not vote for Mr. Samura Kamara.
Notorious of corruption and corrupt activities under the regime of late President Siaka Probyn Stevens of APC, Mr. Foh was then referred to as ‘voucher gate’ who was busily busy in amassing and acquiring unexplained wealth and properties of the state through taxpayers’ money. But was protected by the party he is describing as corrupt and full of thieves after hugely benefitting from the party.
Lately the Mr. Foh has made it very resoundingly clear that if his former party wins the elections let them kill him, “if APC wins the election, kill me.
When President Bio took over the helm of power, Mr. Foh who knows too well that he is a corrupt political jester after his errant boy leaked out secret of his hideout wealth to the COI, joined President Bio’s PAOPA SLPP dreading for his properties involving taxpayers’ money he had amassed during the past regime, even though the current regime has been equally accused of corruption.
However, Victor Foh is like the chichidodo bird found in some part of Ghana which hates human excrement with all its soul but the Chichidodo only feeds on maggot. Victor Foh accusing APC of graft, a party he spent his entire political life which means that he too was part of the corrupt cohorts of APC.