SIERRA LEONE: Court withholds runoff election pending court hearing

The head of the National Electoral Commission in Sierra Leone has unavoidably placed an injunction on next Tuesday’s presidential runoff pending hearing into an audit case of the electoral system in the country.

Reports say the High Court in Sierra Leone has placed an injunction on Tuesday’s presidential runoff after the March 7 vote failed to produce an outright winner.

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The injunction came after a March 24 ruling delivered by Justice A. R. Mansaray, the Head of the National Electoral Commission withholding the conduct of the runoff pending hearing into the case.

The APC’s candidate, Samura Kamara, finished slightly behind Julius Maada Bio of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in the first round of voting on March 7, but neither candidate gained the 55 percent of votes needed to win outright.

The case that led to the injunction was filed by one Ibrahim Sorie Koroma, a lawyer linked to the ruling party All People’s Congress (APC). Lawyer Koroma in his filing averred that electoral fraud allegations should be investigated before the vote goes ahead.

 

 

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