By Our Political Reporter
Since the commencement of this medium to portray Mr. Batillo Songai as the most appropriate grassroots personality for the Chairmanship of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) come next years convention, over 75% of prominent members and supporters of the party have now joined in to err their views, commentaries and opinions at home and abroad manifesting their over whelming support for Batillo and from Melbourne in Australia to Virginia in the USA, the extracts indeed are worth noting.
Musa Kpaka in Melbourne Australia says Batillo is a technocrat to showcase the SLPP party as the vital link between the state and civil society between the institutions of government and the groups of interests that operate within society. Musa believes that in any democratic state like ours, party decisions are the principal source of recruitment taking into account the process as who the party nominate their candidates. He said Batillo has the knowledge and experience to choose politicians that possess talents and skills that ae related to electioneering such as charisma, oratorical skills and good looks. He said the conventional view is that elections are a mechanism through which politicians could be called to account and forced to introduce policies that somehow reflect public opinions. He said with Batillo’s incomparable experience, he can make the difference by creating a political family in line with societal demands.
A female SLPP campaigner in Virginia, USA Elizabeth Tucker who hails from Moyamba in the southern region of Sierra Leone upon learning about Batillo’s vying for the Chairmanship position says, Batillo once told her that a political party is a group of people that is organized for the purpose of winning government power by electoral or other means. She says Batillo is a political icon who steadfastly believes that if elected, his aim is to exercise government power by winning political office. She further maintains that an extraordinary quality of Batillo could be seen over his desire to provide the public with its clearest formal opportunity to influence the political process and also help to directly or indirectly to determine who will hold government power from the perspective elections are about results, she says Batillo knows that voting behavior is clearly shaped by short-term and long term influence. Batillo she says is an experienced gentle man who knows the theories of voting through party identification model. A mentor on the attitudes, policies and leaders. He can reshape the sociological model, rational choice model and a dominant ideology model.
Back home, supporters, members and fans of Batillo Songai assert that the party needs a strong, determined and committed political structure to uphold the integrity of the new party Constitution. They contend that the SLPP’s 21st century governance system has introduced for the first time a semblance of socioeconomic reforms which has to be maintained. Evidently they say, President Julius Maada Bio’s Presidency has so far surpassed by comparisons any other political administration in post-Independence era. They believe that the only way to maintain this is to ensure that when President Bio finally ends his 2nd term, another Bio will emerge from the Blues. The choice depends on how principle the party’s leadership will be able to stand the test of time. The only man capable to lead a successful transition is Batillo. For him, whatever the intention of others what matters most is to sustain an ideological project that morally justifies their forms of rule. Have a much greater probability of keeping power at all times to the wish of the masses. Batillo has that quality of being.
