In a message dated 7/27/2007 8:50:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, JCKALLON2@aol.com writes:

With all due respect, though, your statement that "Charles left because of ... crooked manipulative action" is flat-out wrong. Mr. Margai was an active SLPP member until about the last few hours of the party's annual convention in Makeni. He left only after he had lost the leadership election in which he had fully participated. He was unwittingly reminding his countrymen that his father had done the same thing to the venerable Sir Milton way back then. As they say, the apple does not fall far from the tree.

 

Kind regards,

- JCK

Kinei Kallon,

 

This is not at all a true reflection of the relationship between Charles Margai and the SLPP.  Immediately preceding the SLPP convention in Makeni, both Charles and Chief Norman for various reasons contended that the convention was not going to be fair and open.  Norman withdrew his supporters from the convention and in meetings with Charles, Dauda, Leigh and Lansana Nyalley, tried to convince them not to attend the convention.  Charles thought he should pursue the matter to its logical conclusion and attend the convention even though the odds were by then stacked highly against any other candidate.

 

As you recall, Norman went to the Supreme Court and briefly stopped the convention until the S-C reversed itself.  Charles made every effort to reconcile with the party and make necessary changes from within as you guys claim you are doing.  But the SLPP has been hijacked by jackasses from the top and most of us feel it is either extremely dishonest or hopelessly naive to continue to take Tylenol for brain cancer.

 

So it is quite disingenuous to say that Charles is a party hopper or that he left the SLPP because he did not win the party leadership position.  Charles and Hinga Norman never left the SLPP - the SLPP left Charles and the Sierra Leone people.

 

A. SamForay

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