{"id":32193,"date":"2011-11-14T05:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T05:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=32193"},"modified":"2011-11-14T05:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T05:20:33","slug":"port-loko-cheers-kadi-sesay-and-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=32193","title":{"rendered":"Port-Loko cheers Kadi Sesay and Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People of Port-Loko Friday 11<sup>th<\/sup> November, 2011 cheered Kadi Sesay and Julius Maada Bio as they joined Muslims at the Port-Loko Central Mosque for the usual 2 o\u2019clock (Juma) prayer.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Julius Maada Bio, and his running mate Dr Kadi Sesay)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jubilant Sierra Leone People\u2019s Party (SLPP) supporters in Port-Loko town were observed in streets, bar centers, and along roads leading to the town\u2019s Central Mosque, shouting out their approval for Maada Bio\u2019s appointment of Kadi Sesay; a sister and daughter of the soil of Port-Loko, as his running mate for the 2012 Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On their arrival, Maada Bio and Kadi Sesay visited the Port- Loko Central Mosque where they joined hundreds of Muslims to pray the Juma prayer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the prayers, Bio, Kadi Sesay, and hundreds of SLPP supporters moved to the SLPP Port-Loko regional office where he (Bio) admonished people of Port-Loko that he promised appointing a northerner as his running mate and has done it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that he has exclusively chosen Port- Loko as the District his running mate should come from because it is his intention having a regionally balanced system of leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI decided to appoint Dr. Kadi Sesay as my running mate owing to a number of reasons,\u201d Bio said. \u201cShe is a woman of substance. She has an unsoiled political record, and it has always been my desire to see women take part in the process of governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have also selected her because I want to prove to Sierra Leonean women that it is my desire having them enjoy the 30% quota they\u2019ve been asking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He assured the people of Port-Loko that if he is elected as President of Sierra Leone, he will abidingly look into the concerns of the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speakers, who made statement on behalf of their organizations, praised Bio\u2019s appointment of Kadi Sesay as running mate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor this sake, Port-Loko District will heartedly support the SLPP come 2012, the SLPP regional chairman said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting also witnessed the exhibition of respective artistic\/cultural activities along the streets of Port-Loko nay cheering on Bio and Kadi as the best of the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDr. Kadi Sesay is a daughter of Port- Loko soil,\u201d a jubilant supporter said. \u201cWe are behind her and we will give her our hearty support at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of Port-Loko Friday 11th November, 2011 cheered Kadi Sesay and Julius Maada Bio as they joined Muslims at the Port-Loko Central Mosque for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,1],"tags":[2578,801,3070,2579,759,10267],"class_list":["post-32193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-elections","tag-kadi-sesay","tag-maada-bio","tag-sierra-leone-peoples-party","tag-slpp","tag-slpp-running-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}