Brother Zoker,

You hit it right on the nose. If SLPP and APC were to go to a runoff, Charles will not deliver votes to the APC. However,  this presumes that he will endorse the APC. Charles may very well side with the SLPP and not the APC. We just don't know what the PMDC leadership will do. I predict they will fall apart in such a scenario.  

Sheku

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From: sam zoker <samzoker@hotmail.com>
To: leonenet@lists.umbc.edu; JCKALLON2@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:39:54 AM
Subject: RE: [Leonenet] APC Shadow Cabinet Names Margai Attorney-General

JCK,

I may have a contrarian view on this. I believe the real news is not so much CFM's qualification for the  job of AG (it's after all a political appointment and ours has never been a realm of hotly contested complex constitutional/rights issues) but whether a position of AG would quench CFM's substantial thirst for power. If AG was all he was willing to settle for, I am sure SLPP would have readily obliged CFM to preserve party unity.

Come a run-off however, CFM will have no negotiable political currency because SLPP can appeal directly to his supporters for their second-round votes and APC may belatedly recognize (when are they going to?!) that those PMDC votes are protest SLPP votes that CFM cannot transfer to them. They may have already figured this out, judging from their choice of AG as the position on offer to him rather than cash ministries like Finance or Mines. I see this AG position as merely a hedge (should the improbable happen) and a painless gesture to maintain the existing  bogus my-enemy's-enemy-is-my-friend APC/PMDC alliance. Neither one of these guys, Ernest or Charles, would cede the presidency to the other even if were all it took to take power from the SLPP. If that scenario were probable, APC would have offered CFM a position more substantive (in the African political sense, more cash-laden) positiion.

Just my two halalas,

Sam Zoker

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From: JCKALLON2@aol.com
Reply-To: leonenet@lists.umbc.edu, JCKALLON2@aol.com
To: leonenet@lists.umbc.edu
Subject: [Leonenet] APC Shadow Cabinet Names Margai Attorney-General
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:12:26 EDT

News Flash!!

Mr. Charles Margai, the founder and presidential candidate for the PMDC party, will become the next Attorney-General of Sierra Leone should he succeed in siphoning enough votes from the base of the ruling SLPP to enable the APC to win the August 11 general election. This was contained in a confidential agreement between Mr. Margai and APC leaders, details of which were leaked to the public last week. APC Secretary-General Victor Foh will become Finance Minister, according to the same "shadow cabinet" document.

Mr. Margai would thus become the most mediocre attorney general in the history of Sierra Leone, a position once held by such very scholarly individuals as Messrs Berthan McCauley, Nathaniel Buck, Abdulai Conteh and Banda Thomas. That prospect alone has turned the document into a powerful general election campaign weapon against both the APC and the PMDC, with numbers of copies being circulated all over the country.

- JCK

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