Freetown — The new kid on the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) leadership block has sent a clear warning to party supporters that votes from SLPP members alone will never win them the 2012 elections, thus stressing the need for a robust campaign to be launched in areas considered as the party's weak links.
Dr. Anthony Kakpindi Soyei, who recently officially declared his attention to run for the SLPP leadership, said he was bringing into the party a new political ideology that is built on the premise of consultative participation to claw back some lost grounds. He damned what he referred to as the politics of exclusion, which according to him, was one of the things that brought acrimony into the party in the run-up to the 2007 general elections, hence its ultimate defeat in the parliamentary and presidential polls.
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