{"id":32365,"date":"2024-05-29T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/what-apc-didnt-tell-you-about-sam-sumanas-coming"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:32:10","slug":"what-apc-didnt-tell-you-about-sam-sumanas-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/what-apc-didnt-tell-you-about-sam-sumanas-coming","title":{"rendered":"What APC Didn\u2019t Tell You About Sam-Sumana\u2019s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Through a press statement, the main opposition party, All Peoples Congress (APC) put out a press statement informing the public that former Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been readmitted to the party.<\/p>\n

The announcement came after APC\u2019s National Advisory Committee (NAC) met with the former Vice President and his entourage at the party\u2019s headquarter in Freetown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussions during the meeting were friendly and familial and former Vice President assured the meeting of his commitment to work with the Party henceforth,\u201d APC said in a press statement.<\/p>\n

But it appears Sam-Sumana\u2019s camp is not pleased with the manner in which APC informed the public about the former President\u2019s return to the Party..<\/p>\n

They said the party failed to follow the agreement made at the NAC meeting. In an interview with Brima Michael Turay, a Spokesman for Sam-Sumana said the Former Vice President is returning to APC \u2018unconditionally,\u2019 the agreed condition under which Sam-Sumana and his camp are returning to the party.<\/p>\n

It was also agreed that announcement about the former Vice President\u2019s return to APC was to be made public only in a special event organized by a special committee, where all APC District Chair Persons would be present.<\/p>\n

According to Turay, no official statement was supposed to have come out from either APC or Sam-Sumana\u2019s camp unless the committee was setup and a special program organized to inform the public and the APC District Chairpersons the reasons the Party took the decision to bring back Sam-Sumana \u2018unconditionally.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is unfortunate that Lansana Dumbuya who put the press release out never mentioned the word \u2018unconditionally\u2019 as it was agreed in the NAC meeting,\u201d Turay said. \u201cTo us, we are back in the APC unconditionally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The APC leadership expelled Sam-Sumana from the party in 2015, after accusing him of flaming violence, and trying to form a breakaway party in party Kono.<\/p>\n

Following the party\u2019s decision, Sam-Sumana who was serving as Vice President of Sierra Leone was sacked from his job. A statement from the then President\u2019s office says, the Vice-President was sacked for \u2018abandoning his duty and seeking political asylum in the US Embassy.<\/p>\n

Sam-Sumana denied the allegations and regarded his sacking as unconstitutional, but the country\u2019s Supreme Court ruled that the decision of the former President, Ernest Bai Koroma to sack his Vice was constitutional.<\/p>\n

However the ECOWAS Court (West Africa\u2019s regional Court) ruled the decision was illegal and ordered the then government to pay his reparations.<\/p>\n

The former Vice President later formed the Coalition 4 Change (C4C) Party, under which he ran for President in 2018. He reconciled with his former party, the main opposition All People\u2019s Congress (APC) last year with intention of running for President under the party but was disqualified from contesting for its flagbearer position.<\/p>\n

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