Hyper hypocrisy to a very large extent is one of the key factors responsible for the seeming sharp political division in this tiny nation which undoubtedly is deterring its progress altogether.

And those at the fore who are the key players are our politicians who for obvious reasons including selfishness and greed, often deliberately fail to inform their followers about the correct things.

It’s unimaginable that a tiny country like ours endowed with numerous natural resources with an approximate population of eight million people still wallows in abject poverty. For a very long time politicians in this country have used to telling people lies in order to achieve their own ambitions.

Such is the present unfolding political scenario concerning the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) as to whether should they take the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL),  President Maada Bio and his governing Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) to court or not?

Given that the former had rejected the outcome of the June 24th 2023 general elections’ results that retains the incumbent President in power, citing irregularities, thus restraining their elected Members of Parliament, Mayors, Chairmen/Persons and Councilors from taking part in any governance activity having to do with the SLPP.

The reason the APC had advanced not to take the matter to court is its lack in confidence of the country’s judicial system, noting that there is no need wasting their time and resources on matter they believe they’re not going to win.

Instead, they now heavily rely on the support and intervention of the international community to do the “unthinkable” by setting up a foreign independent body and if need be to deploy foreign troops to monitor the conduct of fresh elections.

And to many APC supporters, this is a figment of anybody’s wider imagination considering the fact that such thought will never materialize, with supporters blaming their leaders to have given too much credence to a certain individual called Adebayor who, they claimed continues to dictate to the party wrong things from his sanctuary outside Sierra Leone, and supporters have insisted that his misguided information has led to fragmentation within the party.

Adebayor’s latest dictate for the APC not to go to court owing to his, Adebayor’s ‘lack of confidence’ in the country’s courts system and the party’s acceptance to yield, has just given credence to people’s assumption of Ade dictating things.

Hardliners and APC faithful alike, believe that they are taking too much from Adebayor despite their party is blessed with reputable educated bigwigs who are at the helm of affairs.

This, and many other unsolved issues including their refusal to follow the due process of the law cannot help Dr. Samura Kamara and the APC to succeed in overturning the elections results in their favour.

Secondly, the same courts they are now refusing to go to contest their grievances because of their lack of confidence in it or being considered weak, were the same courts the late Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa and the incumbent President Dr. Julius Maada Bio was walking up to after losing the 2007 and 2012 presidential elections respectively to erstwhile President Koroma.

These are the same courts also former Vice President Alhaji Sam Sumana went to following his ‘contentious’ removal from office by his former boss ex-President Koroma after being expelled from the party for anti-party activities.

However, these men chose to go to court not necessarily because they have complete confidence in the legal system, but importantly because they have respect for the country’s laws – no matter what.

And so for Dr. Samura Kamara and the APC to decide not to go to the courts and one would ask which is the right channel to challenge their matter because of its alleged weakness which is not enough or should be a strong excuse at all, and therefore, otherwise, some say APC will not succeed in any attempt to undo the results of the forgone elections.

Dr. Samura Kamara APC should realize that if then APC administration would have made the judiciary and all other institutions stronger like what former United States of America President Barrack Obama once stated that ( We don’t need strong men; we need strong institutions) , he [ Samura] wouldn’t have hesitated to go there for redress.