The National Deputy Chairman of the All People’s Congress (APC), Ambassador Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh, the National Secretary General, Lansana Dumbuya, and the APC Census Technical Committee Chairman, Comrade Leonard Balogun “Logus” Koroma, have expressed reservations over the circumstances surrounding the postponement of the 2025 Population and Housing Census to 2026.
In one voice, they all called on Statistics Sierra Leone to come clean by stop operating in secret. They asked Statistics Sierra Leone not to repeat the mistakes of the discredited 2021 Mid Term Census. They warned that the deferral, while seemingly administrative, “masks a larger political calculus designed to influence electoral boundaries and delay a return to the constituency-based electoral system, as recommended by the Tripartite Committee”.
Ambassador Yansaneh noted that the APC’s “concern is not just about timelines, but about integrity. The census is too important to be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. We believe in a data-driven national process, not one shaped by short-term partisan interests.”
Logus Koroma stated that, “We are not against the census. We are against manipulation. Sierra Leone needs reliable data for health, education, agriculture, and equitable development. Let’s get it right—for the people, not the politicians.”
The APC’s latest intervention, while sharply critical of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), strikes a deliberate tone of national responsibility. It calls for a renewed commitment to governance, transparency, and institutional competence.
The three APC stalwarts made those comments at a well-attended press conference convened at the Brookfields Hotel in Freetown last Friday.