During an auspicious and carnival-like ceremony held on Saturday twenty first January, 2023 on the All People’s Congress Regional Office in Pujehun District, Southern Province of Sierra Leone, former Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea, Omrie Golley, formally declared his intention to steer the APC occasion to the 2023 elections.
In his tackle to residents of the district, Ambassador Omrie Golley said how he has been working in direction of constructing a brighter future for Sierra Leone throughout his complete grownup life sustaining that 20 years in the past, when the nation was going by way of it darkest occasions, he positioned himself at nice private dangers to assist restore peace within the nation.
He intimated that he then served because the nation’s Ambassador to South Korea, working to strengthen the delicate peace the nation had gained, securing investments and assets for the nation’s growth and constructing Sierra Leone’s popularity the world over, including that he then established agricultural tasks throughout the nation to help and educate the individuals in trendy farming strategies with the goal of attaining meals safety.
“Now I stand before you to announce that the time has come for me to take a more central role in building a better future for Sierra Leone. This is an important moment for our country, for all of us. In days and years to come, I believe our fellow citizens and their children, even their grandchildren, will look back on this hour, this day, and recognise it as the point when Sierra Leone finally demanded the future it deserved,” he knowledgeable the gathering.
He maintained that the duty dealing with this era of leaders is to not make guarantees which have been heard earlier than and it isn’t to vow the earth after which overlook about these guarantees as soon as safely in workplace, including that the problem is to not permit a small minority to develop rich by the efforts of tens of millions of hard-working trustworthy individuals underscoring that the duty is to show a brand new web page within the nation’s historical past.
He elaborated that it’s to forge a brand new Sierra Leone that rejects the cynicism and damaged guarantees of the previous, that restores residents’ pleasure and dignity and that pulls a line underneath the distress, division and poverty of the previous, and shapes a brand new future for ourselves and youngsters.
“A new energy, a new hope, a new optimism that will transform our country that will make the kind of change we want to see a reality – inevitability. We cannot say to our people that business as usual is good enough. People want change, and they need someone they can trust to deliver a positive transformation of Sierra Leone,” he disclosed.
The Presidential Aspirant famous that he believes the time has come for him to step up and he believes that he can carry the APC occasion and the individuals of Sierra Leone collectively and lead the nation to fulfill this problem of which he subsequently introduced that he’s standing to be the flagbearer for the APC, and the subsequent President of Sierra Leone.
He knowledgeable the gathering that he has been at one with the APC because the early Nineteen Nineties and he has supported the occasion in good occasions and in tough occasions, furthering that he’ll proceed to help the values of the occasion and have nice respect for his brothers and sisters who’ve already declared their candidacy for flagbearer. But he said that he believes the time has come for basic change and he desires to play his half to ship that change.
“You know that I am an experienced peacemaker and unifier. I will end the division in our party and bring people together. I will unite North and South, Muslim and Christian. I will bring all our tribes and factions together. There is a reason that my campaign message is ‘Forward Together,”
He maintained that as a result of unity is crucial high quality required of the flagbearer: provided that the APC is united will they defeat the present President, revealing that he has distinctive expertise in selling the event of our nation, each as Ambassador and thru his agri-education tasks.
Omrie Golley disclosed that as President he’ll construct on the expertise to remodel agriculture in Sierra Leone, taking advantage of the nation’s God-given benefits to attain meals safety and finish the widespread starvation of the plenty.
He added that he’ll sort out endemic corruption in society, be certain that the mining of the nation’s pure assets advantages all and never only a small few, will construct a contemporary healthcare system which shall be there to care for us all, including that he’ll guarantee all Sierra Leonean kids have entry to an schooling that offers them the very best begin in life.
“Our problems are too large’, they say; ‘too long-term, too ingrained, too expensive to fix,” I’m not a kind of individuals. For I’ve religion, religion in my fellow residents, Faith in Sierra Leone,” he maintained.
He disclosed that as an alternative of simply preaching from afar, he has made private sacrifices, used his personal assets, his personal abilities, his personal two fingers to start out constructing that future, with a imaginative and prescient to steer the nation: unite the APC occasion and the individuals, and heal the divisions of the previous.
“I am here to build a Sierra Leone where no-one lives in hunger and suffer oppression. And I stand here to ask for your support. Together, we can deliver that brighter future for Sierra Leone,” he concluded.
Other dignitaries current on the ceremony together with a Senior APC Party Stakeholder, Ms Cecilia Ngobeh, the APC Youth Representative, Issa Soko Tarawally, the APC Veteran Supporter, Hon. Amara Adikali Kamara additionally made statements of which all of them threw their help behind Ambassador Golley for the 2023 APC Flagbearer.