What a flop, big flop for Julius Maada Bio, for SLPP/Paopas, for Ernest Bai Koroma, for the useless APC leadership who were humiliated before, during and after the ECOWAS Summit in Lungi, where, despite spending millions of dollars in bribes, juju, etc., they failed big time. (Photo: The evil Ernest Koroma and poor Bio).

The acquisition of the ECOWAS Chairmanship for the second term was the greatest ambition of the illegal Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio and his APC sell-out slaves, but the few ECOWAS Heads of State present and delegates did not allow it to happen for poor Bio.

Led by Gambian President Adama Barrow, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and his predecessor Macky Sall, the ECOWAS Commission came 100% ready to counter any ambush set up by Maada Bio in Lungi to hang on to the ECOWAS Chair.

Ranging from heavy bribes in dollars and minerals to the use of voodoo charms to lure the ECOWAS Chairmanship towards Maada Bio, it was a big flop as the Gambian and Senegalese delegations came with their own protective mechanisms to counter any evil forces from Bio in Lungi.

And surely and successfully, they were able to counter the bad omens, thus plunging the Bio voodoo into powerlessness. It was a classic case of ‘Juju See Juju, Juju Run Away’ scenario. Gambia and Senegal are among the masters and leaders of voodooism and traditional medicine in Africa. (Photos: Faye received the ECOWAS Chair from Bio. Ernest and Fatima; APC slaves received Ernest).

Inside sources say that when President Adama Barrow and President Bassirou Faye arrived, both ECOWAS leaders refused to shake Bio’s juju hands even though Bio extended his hands to them. They even rejected Fatima Jabbe Bio’s voodoo fingers. That was a masterstroke against the Bios. One-nil against the Bios in football parlance!

In the end, Senegal’s President Bassirou Faye succeeded in taking over the ECOWAS Chair from the reluctant and unfit Maada Bio, whose efforts to use dollars, gold, and diamonds to bribe certain ECOWAS leaders did not pay positive dividends.

Maada Bio and his APC executives, including former President Ernest Koroma, were so overconfident of winning the ECOWAS Chair that they had already prepared SLPP T-shirts and banners to celebrate Bio’s second term as ECOWAS Chair, which never was.

A monumental failure indeed. It was President Faye who eventually got the victory after netting all the votes and was elected in a landslide, much to the chagrin and disappointment of Maada Bio, Fatima Bio, David Sengeh, Juldeh Jalloh, Ceebah, Timothy and their Paopa supporters.

Forty-eight hours later, the SLPP/Paopas and their APC sell-out operatives are still feeling the pinch, pain, and shock. However, the people of Sierra Leone who came out on June 24, 2023, elections to vote for the President-elect, Dr Samura Kamara, are 100% happy for Faye’s victory. (Photos: Faye, Sall, Doumbouya and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould).

The popular Sierra Leone dictum “Juju See Juju, Juju Run Away” won the day. In the King’s language, it means “Iron Cuts Iron”, “Man Pass Man”, “Woman Pass Woman”. Thanks to President Faye, the adage became alive, and Bio was literally buried alive in Lungi.

Live on video from Lungi during the ribbon-cutting to open the ECOWAS Conference Centre, the footage shows Maada Bio extending his juju hand for the handshakes, but the Gambian and Senegalese Presidents refused to shake his hand, knowing full well that his hand is smeared with juju charms.

By all accounts and every way you look at it, the ECOWAS summit in Lungi was a flop for Bio. The attendance was historically poor. The Lungi summit was the first time the majority of the ECOWAS Heads of State had boycotted their meeting. No sober leader wants to come closer to cocaine Bio.

In previous ECOWAS meetings, full attendance had always been the yardstick used to measure the success of ECOWAS summits. The flopped Lungi summit is a far cry from the successes of previous ECOWAS conferences held by other ECOWAS member nations, where almost all the presidents attended.

The Lungi summit was the first ECOWAS meeting that did not have more than three ECOWAS Heads of State in attendance. It is not only a massive slap in the face of Bio, but it also shows a public display of embarrassment for Sierra Leone. (Photos: Barrow, Faye, Dr Omar Touray and President John Mahama; he did not come).

Even the orchestrated 11th-hour arrival of the exiled Ernest Bai Koroma in Nigeria did not dampen the public ridicule and shame that faced the Bio regime. In fact, Ernest Koroma’s presence made matters worse for the Bio regime, whose days in power are truly numbered.

The conspicuous show of boycott of the 69th Session of the Lungi Summit by most ECOWAS Heads of State is indicative of the disrespect and total lack of confidence reposed in the leadership of the illegal Bio administration.

Who would want to associate himself or herself with the most wanted drug father-in-law, Bio, whose son-in-law Jos Leijdekker is Europe’s most wanted drug fugitive hiding in Sierra Leone under SLPP government protection? Who would want to? No one, of course! Disgracefully, the T-shirts and posters printed by the SLPP to celebrate Bio’s victory were thrown away after Bio failed to get his second term.

Only the Guinean President Mamady Doumbouya and the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould were present with President Barrow and President Bassirou Faye. It was a great relief for voters in 2023 to witness the emergence of President Faye as the new ECOWAS Chair. Shortly, the restoration of democracy will take place in Sierra Leone.