President Koroma thanks the people of Sierra Leone for re-electing him. He acknowledges that the elections displayed the country's values of maturity, patience, and tolerance. Koroma praises the electoral institutions and security forces for ensuring a credible, transparent, and peaceful election. As his party, the APC, was given a mandate to govern for five more years, Koroma promises to continue their agenda by focusing on job creation, skills training, infrastructure development, and attracting investment while continuing to fight corruption. He calls for unity across political parties to advance the country's prosperity.

1. President Koroma Acceptance Speech Text
Fellow Sierra Leoneans
By the grace of God, I have once again been elected as your President. The people have spoken and their collective
will has prevailed. I give praise and thanks to Almighty God for the great honor bestowed on me to lead this nation.
This is a win for every Sierra Leonean; and I thank every Sierra Leonean for bringing about this victory for this land
that we love.
Sierra Leoneans displayed maturity, patience and tolerance during the elections. These are enduring Sierra Leonean
values, and we must continue to display them to sustain our peace, our democracy and our development.
We deeply appreciate the commitment of the National Electoral Commission, Political Parties Registration
Commission, and the Security forces to the constitution of this country and the sacred tenets of democracy, peace
and security. We also applaud the many other state agencies, domestic and international monitors, civil society
groups and the media for their positive contribution to ensuring credible, transparent and peaceful elections in the
country.
My fellow Sierra Leoneans, you have given me, and my party, the All Peoples Congress, the mandate to govern our
country for the next five years. You endorsed the achievements we made with the Agenda for Change and asked us
to continue on to the Agenda for Prosperity.
This is my new contract with you, we will focus on creating jobs for the youths, and on training our youths to seize the
immense employment opportunities we are creating in the construction, mining, agriculture and other sectors. We will
continue with our infrastructural development programmes; we will continue to attract investment; we will continue to
fight corruption; we will continue to protect and promote the rights of every woman, every man, youth, child, journalist,
and civil society activist.
The time for politics is over, the moment for continuing the transformation has come. This is the time for all of us to
embrace each other. In the name of Mama Sierra Leone, let all APC supporters embrace every SLPP supporter and
supporters of other political parties. I am inviting the leadership of the SLPP and other political parties to join the
leadership of the APC in moving this country forward. The job at hand requires the goodwill and positive energy of the
membership of all political parties.
Fellow Sierra Leoneans, democracy respects divisions; good governance transcends divisions. I will make sure that
the fruits of the Agenda for Prosperity are equally distributed in every district and region of the country. Our creation of
jobs will be for youths all over the country; our focus on skills for employment will be for the youths of every political
party; we will construct roads in every region, continue to bring electricity to every district; develop agriculture in every
chiefdom and provide free healthcare for the mothers and children of every village.
The work starts today. We know Sierra Leoneans everywhere are celebrating this national victory. But let us celebrate
within the law; let us celebrate with the grace, tolerance and goodwill that must be the corner stone of the job at hand.
Let us, as we celebrate, be mindful that the work starts today, and every Sierra Leonean, from all political parties,
regions, ethnic group, age, and religion is central to our Agenda for Prosperity. We must therefore embrace each
other as we march forward with action, bravery, commitment, discipline, empathy and fortitude.
I assure you all that with tenacity of purpose, and with great courage and determination, we will sustain our peace,
democracy and development. The future beckons with high hopes for a prosperous Sierra Leone, whose sons and
daughters will live together in peace and harmony, and enjoy the abundant fruits of our labor.
God bless you all