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Fatima Bio

Date of Birth: 27 November 1980
Place of Birth: Koidu Town, Kono District, Sierra Leone


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Formidable first lady flexes her muscles

To some First Lady Fatima Bio is a strong astute politician in her own right but to others a bully who may have overstepped her bounds in the party and State House and has her eyes on the presidency in 2028...

Fatima Bio talked her husband out of taking any further action against Harding a source close to the President told Africa Confidential...

Batilo-Songa's wife Wuyata Bernadette Songa who is an MP first met Fatima Bio in the United Kingdom where they formed a strong friendship and political alliance which they carried home and into the party...

During that time the Women's Wing was led by Fatmata Sawanneh a powerful rival of Fatima Bio...

Fatima Bio could not hide her disdain for the popular Sawanneh and threw her support behind Hawa Foray who prevailed much to the anger and dismay of especially older female party stalwarts who claimed the vote was fixed...

This manifestation of the generational divide in the party resulted in some of the older contingent openly threatening Fatima Bio in voice notes on WhatsApp groups saying they would 'deal with' her and 'undo' her husband because he had kept quiet about what they called her 'transgressions' within the party...


Strife hampers Bio's reforms

Sengeh is calling for 'radical inclusion' meaning a sharp increase in female students at secondary and tertiary institutions a cause strongly backed by Fatima Maada Bio the President's wife...


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