Brigadier (Ret.) Bio officially became a member of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) in 2005. On the night of 31th July 2011, Brigadier (Ret.) Julius Maada Bio won the election to become the SLPP’s 2012 presidential candidate at the SLPP convention. He faced off with President Ernest Bai Koroma of the ruling APC and was defeated, winning 37% of the vote, but established the SLPP as the only viable opposition party in Sierra Leone.
Should the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) win the March 2018 Presidential Election Brigadier (Ret.) Julius Maada Bio will be President of Sierra Leone.
Alhaji Alpha Osman Timbo was Sierra Leone Minister of Labour and Industrial Relations from 2001-2002 under President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) ahead of the 2012 Sierra Leone presidential elections.
He finished in fourth place at the July 31, 2011 SLPP convention held at the Miata Hall in Freetown, behind Julius Maada Bio, Usman Boie Kamara and Andrew Keili.
He unsuccessfully ran for the presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) ahead of the 2012 Sierra Leone presidential elections. He finished in fourth place at the July 31, 2011 SLPP convention held at the Miata Hall in Freetown, behind Julius Maada Bio, Usman Boie Kamara and Andrew Keili.
In 2015, he became the most likely presidential flagbearer of the SLPP ahead of the 2017 Presidential election.
