By Our Correspondent
Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray (photo), the North America APC activist and fundraiser that was recently "excommunicated" and denied a party card by the ruling party’s national secretariat in Freetown has set up a political movement called Alliance Democratic Movement (ADM).
We in the Patriotic Vanguard had heard rumours about this movement a long time ago and it is consequently no surprise to us because the young politician is just a symbol of the growing disenchantment among many party supporters in and out of the country. So this is like a "warning shot" to party barons in Freetown.
Will Kamarainba return to the APC? That’s the million dollar question as he seems to be heading for something totally different from the APC which is reminiscent of Charles Margai when he started his People’s Movement for Democratic Change several years ago. The then ruling SLPP thought he was crazy; he turned out to be their nemesis.
The UNPP, the party founded by the late Dr. John Karefa-Smart (a former APC stalwart) is also re-organizing and will soon go on a tour of Europe and North America. It came second in the 1996 election. We also hear that PDP-Sorbeh, founded by another former APC stalwart, the late lawyer Thaimu Bangura, is also quietly mobilizing.
What all this shows is that there is serious disenchantment in APC party ranks over the style of governance of both the President and party chiefs. The party draws most of its support from northerners and the two parties mentioned above are northern-based and break-away factions from the APC. Most of their supporters are now in the current APC but that may dramatically change. Even Kamarainba’s movement is basically a northern entity that has some support from the south and east and west. That means the APC is slowly but surely losing its northern support in much the same way the Siaka Stevens and Joseph Sedu Momoh administrations lost their support.
President Koroma managed to convince northerners to return to the APC but what many people identify as blatant ethnocentrism and the third term issue are rapidly driving away many northerners again. Political pundits we talked to however believe he still has time to change things (if some of the current party top brass would allow him) to save his party from the looming political wilderness. If not the current cracks will lead to an electoral massacre in 2018, the pundits, who do not want to be named, have warned.
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