By: Hafsatu Z Bangura
In a press release dated the 22nd August 2022 the All People’s Congress Interim Transitional Governance Committee (ITGC) informs Party members and the general public that the Committee is in receipt of objections made by members of the public through the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPC) to the provisions of the Party’s published Rules of Procedures and Regulations for the conduct of Lower Level Elections.
Furthermore the press release states that as required by the PPRC, the Party is accordingly responding to objections from a total of nine (9) objectors. The Party shall serve copies of its response to each objection to the respective objectors through the PPRC by Monday, 22 August 2022 the release stated.
Consequently, the PPRC shall conduct hearings on all the objections and deliver a ruling on the same. The Commission will further cause the Rules of Procedures and Regulations for Lower Level/Elections to be published for fourteen (14) days in the Sierra Leone Gazette as required.
Thereafter, the count of 60 days will commence for the conduct of all lower-level elections of the Party by the Transitional Interim Independent Elections Management Committee (TILEMC).
As the Party faces the dual tasks of effectively conducting its Lower-Level elections and
Participating in the National Voter Registration process, the ITGC wishes to inform all that it has accordingly forwarded the 25-Man TIIEMC nominees to the PPRC as ordered by His Lordship Justice Adrian Fisher J. in his judgement dated 28′ April 2022 it states.
More importantly, the ITGC has activated preparations for the effective participation of the Party in the forthcoming National Voter Registration scheduled for Saturday 3rd September to Tuesday 4′ October 2022.
Therefore, the Party urges all Sierra Leoneans aged 18 and above to go out and be registered at the nearest registration center.
In conclusion to this the release also states that the attention of the ITGC has been brought to yet another misleading Press Statement dated 19, August 2022, at this point, therefore, the Committee wishes to welcome the disapproval by Party members and the general public to the deliberate and continuous attempts by Alfred Peter Conteh, who, under the guise of Chairman, is in the habit of publishing misleading press releases purporting to have been published by the ITGC.
The ITGC is asking Party members and the general public to consider such behavior not only a mere distraction and remiss of his position as Chairman but also an attempt by him to subvert the orders of the High Court of Justice Adrian Fisher J. of 28th April 2022.
The ITGC shall continue to keep members strictly guided on the progress of the activities of the Party.
