Berewa informed his audience that after his trip to the South and Eastern part of the country he met a letter from the leader and presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress that he would not make it to the rally.
He said Koroma gave excuses saying he would not be safe to join the rally team, and has therefore copied President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on this same concern. Yasmin Fofanah spoke to the two party leaders that the women are tired of violence and are calling on them to calm their supporters.
She said election is not about war, adding that ex-combants should not be used for security purposes. Speaking to onlookers along the way while the motorcade moves on most of them haboured and expressed mixed feelings. A youth said as an observer he thinks the rally was not timely, taking into consideration the way and manner in which the SLPP leader has been accused of being involved in certain activities just to gain power.
Kadie, a petty trader said they are against Ernest Koroma rallying with the SLPP leader as they have won the elections and it is too late to make peace. "We do not want any rally with Solo B," some people along the foot path on Wilkinson Road, West of Freetown, had shouted at the motorcade. The peace rally was an initiative of President Kabbah that resulted in a meeting last Sunday at the Presidential Lodge to commit the two leaders to a communiqué that would bind their conducts and that of their supporters in the run up to the run-off election on Saturday September 8