By Saidu Dumbuya
The APC Elders Council has recently informed that they as elders consider the party’s 2018/23 presidential candidate, Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara’s issue as a priority.
According to them, the former Presidential candidate, is a committed member of the party and has twice served as the party’s presidential candidate. “We will not just leave his issue to be decided by a few people, we have to come in,” stated the former Secretary General of the party, Ambassador Yambasu. He further revealed that they held a joint meeting last week Monday with the Elders Council, the Veterans and the leadership of the party in which position papers were put forward regarding the issue of Dr Samura Kamara reinstatement.
He maintained that the issue of is now in the hands of the leadership to take their decision, which according to some people, Dr. Samura Kamara has to wait but that he argued that that should not be, because the APC is a democratic party and should not have strict exclusion clauses in its constitution.
Ambassador Yambasu said he voted against that when they were amending their constitution. According to them, in 2004 they had serious issues than what they are now witnessing, and this, he said, is happening because they have refused to accept the fact.
He said, he categorically told the leadership that they should reason, underscoring that Samura Kamara’s problem is the party’s.
He maintained that, when someone is expelled from a school and the person is later recalled, he or she will not be demoted but will rather sit in his previous form or class; same, he said, should be applied in the APC in the case of Kamara.
He cited the issue of Paul Bangura who, he said, formed a political party in which he appointed Musa Tarawally as running-mate, after losing the election he came back to the APC but no one bordered to expel him; an action he describes as injustice. Ambassador Yambasu said after the engagement with the leadership, they thought it wise to give his position a thought, adding that they finally agreed to meet in two weeks with three lawyers each from Kamara and the Elders’ Council to resolve the matter.
