{"id":52585,"date":"2013-02-05T16:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=52585"},"modified":"2013-02-05T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:18:35","slug":"endorsing-maada-bio-bo-mayor-disagrees-with-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=52585","title":{"rendered":"Endorsing Maada Bio \u2026 Bo Mayor Disagrees with JOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His Lordship the Mayor of the Bo City Council, Mayor Harold Logic Tucker has informed this medium that in as much as he believes in the constitution of his Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP),\u00a0 he thinks the\u00a0 Chairman of the opposition SLPP, John Oponjo Benjamin (in photo) known as JOB is on the wrong\u00a0 track with regards the motion that the 2012 flagbearer of the SLPP Mr. Maada Bio should not be allowed to continue as flagbearer as the party is having a legal battle with the National Electoral Commission (NEC) over the 2012 electoral results that kept the party in the opposition line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith all due respect to our party&#8217;s constitutional provisions, I don\u2019t support JOB\u2019s stance that Maada should not continue to be the flagbearer of the SLPP\u201d, the Mayor disclosed in a telephone interview on Monday.\u00a0 Mayor Tucker maintained that JOB\u2019s position can affect the Supreme Court matter the SLPP has filed against NEC. He said with Maada Bio the party would improve and do much better come 2017 when the next Presidential election will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Publicity Sectary of the SLPP, Hon. Tamba Sam on Monday referred to JOB as a rotten tooth that needs to be plucked from the mouth to chew without any pain. He described JOB\u2019s position on the flagbearer issue as being counter-productive to the aspiration of majority of the party stalwarts whom he said believe in the flagbearership of Mr. Bio.\u00a0 Hon. Tamba Sam maintained that the third resolution that was raised in favor of Maada Bio which the party\u2019s National Executive Council adopted can only be ratified by the National Delegate Conference which will be held this year. He said JOB had no right to issue a press release nullifying the December 6<sup>th<\/sup> third resolution of the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SLPP mouthpiece has also criticized JOB for what he described as malicious lies spread by JOB that Hon. Tamba Sam has defected to the ruling APC party. According to him, JOB should have cross-checked with him before spreading lies in Church that he had quit the party. He said the pronouncement by JOB that he had left the party is unfounded and baseless. He said he would challenge JOB to put the records straight as far these issues are concerned.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By Ilyasa Baa<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Lordship the Mayor of the Bo City Council, Mayor Harold Logic Tucker has informed this medium that in as much as he believes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,692],"tags":[1049,3070,2579,759],"class_list":["post-52585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","tag-john-oponjo-benjamin","tag-maada-bio","tag-sierra-leone-peoples-party","tag-slpp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52585","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}