Farook Abdul-karim Sesay, Global Public Relations ambassador @ large
To wield affirmative and legitimate power – is no faint feat! Political power comes with solemn responsibilities! Power can also be very addictive and craftily abrogated to cause rippling knock-on effects – if it unfortunately falls into the wrong hands. As a result, that addictive streak is a prescriptive precursor to power being executed and exploited to mislead and misguide a people’s validated mandate and goodwill reposed in the person positioned to be the nation’s legitimate Commander-in-Chief! Whenever such a sacrosanct mandate is recklessly and, with haughty frivolity, squandered and scuppered – a thriving and backwards slide engenders!
Sierra Leone is a sorely beleaguered nation at a crossroads: to slip back into a jaded stagnation ( at best) or to gallop, like a well-bred stallion, to a deservingly proud and prosperous future! That destiny or fate is ours to decide and choose! With sheer conscience and reasoning. To echo the sombre and solemn words of the late President Ahmed Tejan Kabba: “THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS!” Sierra Leone’s blighted or bright future is hanging in the balance here! Our collective destiny and future are walking a tight rope. Like some trapeze artist who had drunk from a chalice of strobes of partisan colours and prejudices. The country’s fate and destiny for the present and the next generation – reside with both the National Delegates Convention of the APC party in 2026 – and, subsequently, the collective national voting conscience of the people who are qualified to vote! And, willing to brave all hurdles just to change, hopefully, even transform – the game! For a brighter and more prosperous Sierra Leone! To choose a very deserving commander-in-chief in 2028. To the APC national convention delegates, devolved and bestowed with the power to choose the party’s winning presidential candidate, if you abrogate that duty of care, for parochial interests – you will have done an egregious bout of injustice to the APC party! And, by association and extension – jeopardise the country’s fate and future! To you the APC party stakeholders and the 2026 National Convention delegates – that future can be NOW! Through your discernment. To get the spotlight on a clinically chosen candidate, who has an impressively credible, glossy, thick, and sterling national political leadership dossier!
Hence cometh that man! Lawyer Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah ( CHERICOCO)! Lawyer Chericoco has heeded the call to party and national duty and service as a successful politician. He has served with due diligence and proven his valour and mettle in battles. For the party and the nation! Barrister Chericoco, without fudge or fuss – has served diligently for fifteen years in national political turbulence! And, still counting! Bruised. Battered. Buffeted. Yet not fazed! Like that raging RED BULL – that now his name and personae, are synonymous with. Lawyer Chericoco has an enviable and hard-to-emulate career. A successful and ethical Barrister. A three-term member of our sacrosanct Parliament. APC Minority leader. ECOWAS Parliamentary member. Deputy speaker. Two-time presidential running mate ( to two presidential electoral races that were mired in controversy and held all the hallmarks of being rigged)! Lawyer Chericoco has a shining political armour adorned with career feats that are almost impossible to defeat! Here stands, modestly, a presidential hopeful – waiting in the wings! Visibly. Proudly – yet devoid of any hubris! An heir apparent, whose wholesome and colourfully rich dossier – stands the test of time. Replete with sterling accolades and stellar achievements as a rounded and seasoned political and state actor. A name that booms with resounding feverish fervour and favour! Amplified through cognitive respect, recognition – in the corridors of national and international power, for the last fifteen years! As a tough player – albeit a well-endowed emotionally intelligent one, too.
Barrister Chericoco believes, deeply, that power belongs validly and legitimately – to the people! That is, voters and those whose present and future depend on those who shape, influence, and determine policies and political choices – to make their lives highly improved. Barrister Chericoco has a staunch belief that a politician should subscribe fervently to: “STEWARDSHIP! NOT OWNERSHIP” – as an invaluable and ethical article of political faith and holistic ideology! As a trustee. Not the self-entitled misguided perception of being the bona fide beneficiary of the nation’s heirloom and its destiny! Barrister Chericoco, also starkly subscribes to the famous Patek Phillipe slogan: “You never actually own a Patek Phillipe. You merely look after it for the next generation! ” Lawyer Chericoco has transcended this watch conglomerate slogan into politics – with religious assiduity! He has forged indelibly, what is now etched in mission statement: “ONE VISION. ONE DESTINY. ONE NATION!” This solemn slogan is now THE CHERICOCO CRUSADE mantra
Lawyer Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah – with the fond sobriquet, “CHERICOCO ” – is logically the nation’s light. The salvation. To salvage the country’s tattered and shattered mosaic. The Inevitable APC presidential predicated cornerstone to brighten the country’s dangerously dark present! The future is NOW! For Party and country! That future is Chericoco!
Barrister Chericoco will not boast that “he was born APC! And, raised APC.” Neither will lawyer Chericoco say: “I’ll die Apc!” Like others are vaunting and flaunting like pharisees, titillating. Instead, lawyer Chericoco will say: “I was born a patriot! Bred a patriot. I will stay a patriot! And, will die a patriot!” His irrefutable pitch is: “ONE VISION! ONE DESTINY! ONE NATION!” This pitch resonates with Shakespeare’s Brutus in JULIUS CAESAR. “Not that I love Caesar less – but that I love Rome more!” Chericoco is a recognised and respected brand. Not just a mere merchandise. The APC party cannot afford to hard sell both the product and the brand! It is costly! Excruciatingly painstaking! Such a course has productive – deficiency written all over such a move!
Real power lies in strategy; empathy; and understanding the art behind the politics of confluence in conflagration and negotiations. Barrister Chericoco is a savant in the conversation of influence. Here stands a man in courage to uncertainty without flinching! His quiet confidence is devoid of arrogance. To his testament, true confidence is not being loudest in the room. Or dominating the room with physical presence. But with an aura that is mesmerising and subtly daunting! A finesse that defines stateman regale. His exuding confidence resonates with being centred. Calm. Grounded. A confidence that responds with clarity. Strength. vision. A quiet, yet scintillating confidence rooted in preparation; belief, purpose! Here is a Political colossus who operates from internal certainty – not external approval. A political giant who is never desperate for validation. Neither applause! But has his lenses trained on progressive values and outcomes! With a trajectory that is focused.
The cacophony and turbulence of the present political dispensation will be negated and decimated by the euphoric euphony and steady statecraft of a suave politician who has observed, served, and learnt incredibly fast on the job, on how to govern. With equitable sense of justice and tempered with robust leadership prowess! Through a prism of empathy – not apathy or exclusivity! A politician ready and willing to build a “team of rivals”. Like what presidential Abraham Lincoln did. Power sharing from within. Not from without!
Let us not forget that Lawyer Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah has unrivalled leverage! The SLPP government see in him a man on a mission. A politician who can never negotiate another raw deal for the APC party and the nation! A politician who has learnt not to be burnt again. A man who is forged in a steely determined fashion, to fight back. Measure for measure! Lawyer Chericoco has recalibrate and decoded the blueprint for victory in 2028. Two times, as a presidential running mate against a backdrop of electoral controversy – and, that has evolved him favourably. He has stayed in the game!
Barrister Chernor Ramadan Maju Bah ( CHERICOCO) is the SUN KING! In him, the APC party has a very victorious vane pointing to State House in 2028. With him, the nation will never walk alone. And, for the National Convention delegates ( in 2026), for the price of one – they would have gotten two. A proud king and happy kingdom! Choosing Chericoco as presidential candidate – is a fitting choice! Think Chericoco! Act Chericoco! Vote Chericoco! For APC party presidential candidate! And, by extension – as the next commander in chief of mama Salone!