Dr. Emmanuel Gaima, who is one of the co-Chairs representing the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) in the Tripartite Committee, has said in no uncertain terms that the Tripartite Committee is not the competent authority to call for election nor the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) but only the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, which he said never received any complaint seven days after the 24th June, 2023 national elections and that the rumours going round is misinformation.

Dr. Emmanuel Gaima was addressing recent rumours circulating regarding a potential rerun of Sierra Leone’s June 2023 national elections.

Dr. Gaima stated that the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone Act No 6 states that there should be a Public Election Act which was amended in 2022 which reads: “In an extreme presidential election, anybody who is aggrieved about the outcome has seven working days to make an official complaint in the Supreme Court,” adding that since the 2023 national elections ended, no political party made a formal complaint to the Supreme Court.

He said His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio being a democratic leader should have chosen to run the State after the main opposition party in Parliament boycotted the process but chose to incorporate them.

Dr. Gaima said the APC met with the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) requesting for a third party to settle their grievance wherein international bodies like ECOWAS, AU and Commonwealth were brought in and Dr. Samura Kamara, Leader of the APC, Chief Minister and other stakeholders met and signed an Agreement for National Unity that has three resolutions and the third one stated that a Committee should be established by the President which would be dissolved on the 19th June, 2024.

He disclosed that their mandate is to look at election management bodies to asserting their mistakes and things they did right, and the review is covering elections from 2007 unto 2023.