EMEFA AKOSUA APETI WINS 2012 GHANA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL

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Volta regional representative, Emefa Akosua Apeti was on Sunday night crowned winner of the sixth season of the Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show. She beat three other hopefuls, Hannah Ampomah Mensah (Ama) of the Central region, Eno Adwoa Anima (Ashanti region), and Afiba Anyanzua Anyanzu (Western region) to be crowned queen of a reality show which seeks to promote national unity amongst the unique regions, people, culture and values of Ghana.  

After three months of live studio competitions and evictions, the finale at the National Theatre lived to its billing. From the word go, it was Emefa who made her presence felt. She was the main competition on the night giving her competitors a run for her money. 

During the talent segment of the competition, 23-year-old Emefa who is a graduate of the Tarkorado Polytechnic got Linda Ampah, a judge of the show, on her feet giving her a standing ovation. Her drama and dance on national unity was just unmatched. She brought to bear a beautiful display of some of Ghana’s popular dances with a call on Ghanaians to unite as “we are one people.” 

Veteran actor David Dontoh, also a judge for the finale, in his remarks said: “Indeed you have re-defined beauty for national development,” while Dzifa Glomeke, third judge, said: “you are very creative; you are just a wonderful performer.” 

There were equally splendid performances from Afiba, who put up a show on domestic violence; Ama, who thrilled with an Asafo dance performance calling for peaceful elections; and Eno, a war drama also for peaceful December polls. After a question and answer session, Emefa was declared winner after amassing about 42 percent of the total votes cast. 

Ama came second with about 22 percent of the votes while Eno and Afibia had 18 and 16 percent respectively. 

For her prize, Emefa walked away with GHc7,000, a car and hampers from sponsors. Ama won GHc6,000 with hampers from sponsors. There were also exciting performances from several renowned artistes including Dobble, Gifty Osei and Keche.

-Source: My Joy Online 

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UPDATE: ERNEST BAI KOROMAN IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF SIERRA LEONE!

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President Ernest Bai Koroma Is The Winner, As Nation Explodes With Joy For His Victory

Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, the son of an itinerant Weslyan preacher and a devout christian mother who always encouraged the saying of the grace at family meals, has done it again. He has won Sierra Leone’s fourth post-war Presidential elections by clearly beating his challenger , a former military junta leader, Maada Bio,  who campaigned on the platform of a New Direction which we can now safely say that voters rejected for the Agenda For Change that Koroma has used over the five years of his first term to transform Sierra Leone.

Koroma beat Bio, collecting 1, 314,881 votes , representing 58%   of the total votes that were enough to earn him a second term. SLPP Presidential candidate , Mr Maada Bio, polled only 837, 517 representing 37% of the total valid votes.

Ernest Bai Koroma, the all embracing leader

And the whole nation which had been waiting anxiously for the results has burst into raptures of joy. Taxi and okada drivers are abandoning their vehicles and kneeling on the ground and kissing it and thanking God for bringing back President Koroma, the man credited for bringing back electricity and water supply after decades of darkness and constructing magnificent infrastructure that have change the face of the nation. Thousands upon thousands of jubilant Sierra Leoneans are dancing on the streets like it is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

The whole nation has gone red, the colour of President Koroma’s All People’s Congress ( APC ) party , which has also scored a large majority in parliamentary and local council seats. Red-shirted supporters are dancing everywhere in the nation and it will not be a surprise if the next few days become unofficial holidays as Sierra Leoneans celebrate the return of the Ernest Koroma Government, which has made Sierra Leone the envy of other West African nations with its socio-economic and political developments that saw the revival of farming, the resumption of mining activities, the acceleration of business and commerce,  the construction of modern highways throughout the length and breadth of the country and the prediction of the IMF and the World Bank that Sierra Leone now has the second fastest growing economy in the world. The outpouring of emotions has been unimaginable. Taxi, bus and private drivers are hooting their horns in celebration .

Koroma’s win is a victory for progressive Sierra Leoneans who decided not to vote along tribal and regional lines to give the country continuity in President Koroma’s development aspirations and achievements.

The run up to today’s announcement of the results of this watershed election was punctuated by a tense waiting period, the likes of which has never been seen before in the nation, probably rivalled by the anxiety that followed the 1967 General Elections that pitched the then sitting Prime Minister , Sir Albert Margai of the SLPP and then trade unionist Mr Siaka Stevens of the APC. 

Like 1967 when the then Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service ( SLBS) played music all the way for a week , interrupted only by public service announcements, radio stations treated anxious listeners to music whole day as citizens remained on edge awaiting the announcement of the result for days. Meanwhile the nation waited, opposing party fanatics, especially the SLPP, spread rumours around the country, in discussion forums and the social media, especially Facebook. 

Unlike 1967 when chaos set in with the army stepping in on the instruction of the then SLPP Government and putting the victor, Mr Stevens and newly-appointed ministers under house arrest, sparking a coup and a counter-coup within days that plunged the country into a military interregum for a year, today’s announcement only ignited widespread jubilation, but the opposition SLPP and People’s Movement For Democratic Change presidential candidates Maada Bio and Charles Margai respectively have said before the announcement they are not accepting the results.

The announcement of the result of what was described as watershed elections came as a welcome relief to millions of Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad who have been transfixed and kept at the edge of their seats for a week since elections day last Saturday.

-Source: cocorioko

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