All People’s Congress (APC) Party parliamentary candidate, for former Constituency 130 in the Western Area Urban, Abdul Osman Timbo, has appealed for Sierra Leone to have a free, fair and peaceful elections come June 2023.
Timbo went unopposed at the just concluded lower-level elections of the APC for the parliamentary seat. He said: “Earlier today, at the APC symbol awards election, I ran unopposed. God willing, I will be returning to Parliament in the forthcoming general elections.
“The unflinching belief the people have in me keeps me humble and determined to do what is right. I have never used money or made lofty promises or even use high up influence to canvass support or votes.
The love is so undiluted and many times I feel I don’t deserve it. My biggest prayer is that I don’t let you down. That’s the only promise I can give to you. I promise to be your voice, I promise to speak your hearts, I promise to be there for you, I promise to continue to be your humble servant.
“Everyday, my greatest joy is just sitting and laughing together with you, listening to your problems (many I can’t even solve), hugging you and the kids, sometimes eating with you. Those are priceless moments. I truly and deeply love and care for you, politics aside. With you, I feel no pressure. With you, I don’t feel judged. With you, I don’t feel the pressure being with the high ups. I just so love the chemistry.
“For you, I am ready to lay my life. For you, I will not look back despite the many challenges and the urge to quit”.
Osman Timbo is a practicing barrister and solicitor with expertise in international adoptions and property law. Following his achievements few years back, Osman Timbo in 2019 bagged West Africa Young Leader of the year, an award by Confederation of West Africa Youths. He is also regarded as one of Sierra Leone’s Youth Ambassadors and is among the 100 most influential Sierra Leoneans.
As the 2023 election is just around the corner, former Hon. Osman Timbo has officially declared his return to national politics with active participation henceforth.
Expressing his thoughts and giving hope to Sierra Leoneans, Osman Timbo in his own words disclosed this:
“Today I choose to formally declare my return to national politics. For the past months and years, many who don’t know me personally, have been asking whether I have given up, since they haven’t been hearing or seeing me. Well, many a time, I had questioned myself whether I am cut out for the noise in our politics. Many a time, I had asked myself whether giving up on being a barrister was a prudent decision – I was definitely on a brilliant trajectory in that field. Many a time, I look at the opportunities I turned down just out of love for this nation.
“I must admit, there were times when I thought of quitting and retreating to my happy and quiet place. I felt like politics here has become so toxic that once friends are now enemies, partners are now strangers, every single thought expressed is judged with political lenses and daggers drawn, a feeling of ‘us’ versus ‘them’, a feeling of ‘na we turn’ and ‘we turn dae cam’. It is so sad and draining.
“I have always said I am a politician and not an activist or social media commentator, so my being quiet did not mean I wasn’t active. Maybe I lost the platform and those who once invited me for my views stopped inviting me. No problem though.
“In my moments of doubt, some voices and scenes and messages remained ever present. How can I just abandon the multitudes of old and young, men and women, boys and girls, students, teachers, disabled, musicians, actors, athletes, traders, professionals, foreigners, my ghetto brothers and sisters, the night workers, the farmers, the Okada, bus and taxi drivers, our compatriots in uniforms, you name them, who turned out to cast their votes in confidence of me. You reposed your trust and confidence in me and I must not turn my back on you now”.
