By Alpha P. Marrah
In a bold and clarifying tour across Falaba and Koinadugu Districts, one of the All People’s Congress’s (APC) most influential female leaders, Finda Diana Konomanyi, delivered a message that resonated like a wake-up call across party ranks. Speaking directly to women, community stakeholders, and party stalwarts, Diana took aim at what she called the “false gospel” of Electoral Justice—a narrative that, in her words, has become a weapon of paralysis within the APC.
At the heart of her statement was a firm rejection of the lingering belief that the 2023 Presidential Election results will somehow be overturned and that Dr. Samura Kamara will be sworn in as President of Sierra Leone. Diana described that belief as not only unrealistic, but also dangerous for the party’s future. “This is not true,” she said plainly. “It is false hope.”
She went further, declaring that the only person who truly knows what “Electoral Justice” means is Dr. Samura Kamara himself. “He must come forward and tell the people of Sierra Leone the honest truth,” Diana asserted, “and stop deceiving them with a promise that has no substance.”
Her remarks have sent ripples across the APC base—especially among those who have been privately grappling with the stagnation caused by this narrative. Diana pointed out that the continued fixation on 2023 has not only stunted party mobilization, but has held some of the most senior party officials hostage. “There are executive members,” she said, “who are no longer active, who do not attend meetings, who are not preparing for the upcoming local elections—because they’re still clinging to a fantasy that 2023 will be reversed.”
Her critique was not laced with bitterness, but with urgency and realism. As she stood before her fellow party faithful in the North, she reminded them that the only viable path to reclaiming power lies in preparation, participation, and unity ahead of the 2028 elections. “Only APC can defeat APC,” she warned. “And that defeat will come—not from the SLPP—but from within, if we allow ourselves to remain divided and distracted.”
Konomanyi’s words echoed what many other APC leaders have been saying over the past two years—but were labeled betrayers, cowards, or even enemies of progress for daring to break from Dr. Samura Kamara’s narrative.
Diana’s message was not one of surrender—but of sober strategy. Her stance is not against Dr. Samura Kamara, but against a false hope that risks costing the APC its future. Her visit to Falaba and Koinadugu may just mark a turning point in the party’s internal reckoning—a moment when the grassroots are reminded that true leadership is not about telling people what they want to hear, but what they need to hear.
And in Diana’s words, what the APC needs now is to come together, put 2023 behind them, and focus on victory in 2028. Anything less, she cautioned, would be a betrayal of the very people the party claims to represent.