The main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) has described the interim injunction restraining the National Electoral Commission from conducting Tuesday's presidential run-off election as 'a deliberate ploy by President Ernest Bai Koroma to illegally extend his tenure and that of his political party against the wishes of the people.'
On Saturday, March 24, Judge Abdul Rahman Mansaray granted an interim injunction restraining the country's electoral body from going ahead to conduct the election as planned, pending the hearing and determination of a matter initiated by Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, a member of the ruling All Peoples Congress.
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