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SLFA top officials shifting interests to National Politics

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson For the first time in Sierra Leone’s football history, two senior officials, the Vice President-II and an Executive Committee Member of the local football federation (SLFA) Alie Badara Tarawallie and Kweku Lisk will be contesting for two prestigious local council positions in their nation’s general elections slated for June 24. Although both officials have been awarded tickets under the same political party (the All People’s Congress), they will be racing for the two prestigious local council seats in different municipalities respectively the Northwestern regional city of Port Loko and in the nation’s capital Freetown. While the SLFA second Vice President Alie Badara Tarawallie has been awarded the APC ticket to contest in the upcoming general elections next month for the Mayoral top seat in the city of Port-Loko, his Executive Committee (EXCO) member Kweku Lisk has been awarded the APC ticket as the deputy to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr the incumbent mayoral candida...