By Alhaji Dauda Galaxy
All People’s Congress (APC) grassroots across the country are calling on Minkailu Mansaray to take the seat of Chairman of the party as he is and has always been there for the party.
According to grassroots supporters of the APC, they want Minkailu Mansaray for next APC National Chairman because he not only has passion for the party, but he also has passion for the grassroots and general membership of the party.
According to them, Minkailu Mansaray is always present to intervene when members of the party are arrested. Together with Osman Foday Yansaneh, Minkailu Mansaray goes to police stations and to court rooms to bail out APC supporters that are in detention or in court.
There is no doubt that Minkailu Mansaray is respected and held in high esteem by the rank and file of the APC, having gone through the rank and file of the party himself, starting from active APC student leader to National APC Youth League, to the Regional and later to the National Advisory Council (NAC) to that of Deputy Chairman and Leader of the party.
He was a member of the APC youth league, during his youth days in the East End of Freetown in 2002, He was elected Member of Parliament under the APC party and remained a Member of Parliament until 2007, when the APC became the ruling party, after winning the 2007 presidential election, and the APC also won majority of seats in Parliament in the 2007 Parliamentary election.
As passionate as he is about APC party affairs, Minkailu Mansaray is also very passionate about the lives of APC members. He knocks at everyone’s door to render help of any kind, to sympathize and console bereaved members, to join in the happiness of wedded couples and any other joyous occasion being hosted by APC comrades. He is always there for the grassroots.
Indeed, Minkailu Mansaray is the best choice for steering the APC ship as Chairman, considering his efforts in the Opposition to ensure that he always preaches peace and bridges gaps within the party at all times.
Recently he organized a peace treaty between all aspiring candidates for the flag bearer position of the APC where he ensured that all the aspiring candidates spoke openly and frankly and there was no animosity or acrimony as Minkailu Mansaray encouraged them all to be unified even though they were in a competition because at the end of the day whoever emerges flag bearer becomes flag bearer of the APC and it is victory for the APC.
Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman. He is an experienced career businessman in the insurance industry who has worked many years as an executive at the Sierra Leone National Insurance Company with imprint in this sector.
He served as a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2007, when the APC became the ruling party. He was Minister of Labor from 2007 to 2010; and was Minister of Mines and Natural Resources in 2010. In 2012, he was elected Deputy Chairman and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) party.
Mansaray is a senior and long-term member of the All People’s Congress (APC) party, and is a member of the APC National Advisory Council, a powerful body within the APC, that is made up of the most senior members of the APC party. Mansaray is a close ally and personal friend of former President Ernest Bai Koroma, with whom he worked with at the Sierra Leone National Insurance Company.
He is a devout Muslim who has gone to the Islamic Pilgrimage – Hajj, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
A strong south-easterner said at this juncture that all the APC needs is a leader who is passionate about the APC winning the 2023 elections and who has the clout, experience and leadership skills in bringing all together.
