Sierra Leone: Maada Bio Got 54. 11 Percent in the Runoff Election - Opposition

Chairperson for the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Election Management Committee, Jacob Jusu Saffa, has told reporters that their presidential candidate Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio got an overwhelming support in the just concluded presidential run-off election.

Saffa announced to a packed hall at the Radisson Blu hotel that Mr. Bio garnered 54.11% of the votes against his opponent, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara of the All Peoples Congress (APC) who got 45.88%. He said that the projected figures were tallied at the SLPP Tally Centre after the close of polling last Saturday, adding that they deployed polling agents across the country and that the figures were sent within record time to enable them collate their report.

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