By Ragan M. Conteh

The Member of Parliament representing the Western Area Urban Districts, Hon Osman Timbo, during his flagbearer declaration opinioned that their  “2023 elections campaign was disjointed.” He made the disclosure on Thursday 1st May 2025 at the Brookfields Hotel Conference Hall in Freetown.

He cited that the APC had little time and resources to campaign at that time.

“We wasted many years in court because of the ‘NRM’ and Alfred Peter Conteh cases, only for us to elect our flagbearer 4 (four) months before the elections,” he revealed.

Hon Osman Timbo said while the SLPP was finalising strategies, the APC never started early, adding that while they were mobilising logistics and resources, they were being stuck in legal battles and injunctions.

“We did not have enough time to present our message to every district, constituency and ward,” he said.

He said in many districts in the south-east  they were not allowed to campaign, while in most other districts the APC presidential candidate Dr Samura  Kamara would sometimes got there late at night, or most times did not even go there at all.

In this same hall, Timbo said they gave 72 (seventy – two) hours ultimatum to the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) to release the disaggregated Voter Register.

But their demands were not met and could not do anything about that.

According to Timbo the ruling government tested their pulses, and they knew that they were weak and disunited.

He informed that the ruling government used force to intimidate and silent the opposition authorities had as the killing of ‘white boy’ at their party office.

“May his soul, the soul of evangelist Samson, Nurse Dumbuya, the youths who were killed in Makeni, Mile 91, Tombo, Masiaka and all those lives lost in that course be rest in the bosom of God,” he prayed for the deceased.

However, Timbo maintained that despite all these challenges, their people poured out and voted for the APC. The APC did not lose the 2023 Presidential Election.

“It was blatantly stolen from us.Today, almost 2  years later, we still cannot [get justice ],” he confirmed.