{"id":83557,"date":"2018-03-10T01:16:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=83557"},"modified":"2018-03-10T01:16:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:16:23","slug":"election-update-partial-results-still-trickling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=83557","title":{"rendered":"Election Update &#8211; Partial Results Still Trickling In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>9 March 2018<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; The Results So Far only Portray our Ethnic Compositions and Clannish Thinking.<em> (Photo: Idrissa Conteh, author)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Total number of parliamentary seats: 132<\/p>\n<p>APC wins 71<br \/>\nSLPP 45<br \/>\nNGC 3<br \/>\nC4C 7<br \/>\nIndependent 6<\/p>\n<p>Total &#8211; 132 seats<\/p>\n<p>My prediction that the APC would win all the seats in the Northern Province and the Western Area is not accurate. I apologise.<\/p>\n<p>The APC has lost a total of 7 seats in its strongholds:<\/p>\n<p>Western Area 3<br \/>\nKambia 3<br \/>\nFalaba 1<\/p>\n<p>My prediction is only about 96% accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The C4C won 7out of 9 parliamentary seats in Kono. There is a rejection of both the NGC and SLPP in Kono land. The APC took the balance 2 seats as a consolation.<\/p>\n<p>The SLPP has lost 6 seats to independent candidates in Kailahun and Kenema districts.<\/p>\n<p>All the results clearly translate our clannish thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The results for the presidency are still being counted.<\/p>\n<p>The wind however continues to blow in favour of the ruling APC party.<\/p>\n<p>Even if all the opposition parties were to consolidate against the APC, I don&#8217;t know what difference it would make.<\/p>\n<p>The elections are said to be so far free, fair, independent and credible apart from sporadic acts of violence and police harassments earlier reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>Idrissa Conteh (Atomic Pen)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 March 2018 &#8211; The Results So Far only Portray our Ethnic Compositions and Clannish Thinking. (Photo: Idrissa Conteh, author) Total number of parliamentary seats: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":81580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[21831,21497,14259,7843,21512],"class_list":["post-83557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2018-election","tag-breaking-news","tag-election-results","tag-sierra-leone-election","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83558,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83557\/revisions\/83558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}