Hon. Chernoh Maju Bah aka Chericoco leader of the main opposition party APC who has been in Parliament since 2019 on Tuesday evening has presented a gift of appreciation on behalf of the APC party to president Bio acknowledging the President’s outstanding leadership in the Republic of Sierra Leone.
Chericoco is a Sierra Leonean lawyer and politician who is currently the leader of the opposition since 2019 and previously held the position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Sierra Leone in the erstwhile government of Hon. Ernest Bai Korma and Parliamentary Chairman of the Mines and Minerals Resources Committee. He had also served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee.
He is a member of the Sierra Leone Parliament of the Western Area Urban District, representing constituency 110, which is mainly made up of the neighborhood of Brookfields Freetown. He is the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate for the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election, having been named the APC vice-presidential candidate at the party’s convention in Makeni on October 15, 2017.
Chernor Maju Bah was first elected a member of parliament in the 2007 Sierra Leone Parliamentary elections. He was re-elected in the 2012 Sierra Leone Parliamentary elections with 68.45%, defeating his main opponent Joseph Maada Soyei of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).
Chernor Maju Bah was born and raised in the neighborhood of Brookfield in the capital Freetown. He is a practicing Muslim and a member of the Fula ethnic group from Freetown. He is a barrister-solicitor by profession.
