Solomon Ekuma Dominic Berewa (6 August 1938 – 5 March 2020) was

Vice-President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...

from May 2002 to September 2007. Standing as the candidate of the

Sierra Leone People's Party The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with its main political rival the All People's Congress (APC). It has been the ruling party in Sierra Leone since April 4, 2018. The SLPP d ...

(SLPP), he was defeated in the second round of the 2007 presidential election by

Ernest Bai Koroma Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018. Born and raised in Makeni in northern Sierra Leone, Koroma spent more than 24 ...

of the All People's Congress (APC).Rod MacJohnson
"Sierra Leone gets a new leader"
AFP (''The Times'', South Africa), September 17, 2007."S Leone opposition win presidency"
BBC News, 17 September 2007.

Life and career

Berewa was born in 1938 in Bumpe Chiefdom, Bo District. Under President

Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (February 16, 1932 – March 13, 2014) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served twice as the 3rd President of Sierra Leone, from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. An economist and attorney by profession, Ka ...

, Berewa was

Attorney-General In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

and

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from 1996 to 1997, when the government was ousted in a coup. After Kabbah was restored to power, Berewa was Attorney-General and Minister of Justice again from 1998 to May 2002. He then became Vice-President. At the SLPP's national convention in Makeni on September 3–4, 2005, Berewa was selected by the SLPP as its leader and its 2007 presidential candidate. He received 291 votes, while

Charles Margai Charles Francis Kondo Margai (born 19 August 1945) is a Sierra Leonean politician and constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018. Margai is a former candidate for the office of Presiden ...

received 34, Julius Maada Bio received 33, and J. B. Dauda received 28. In the first round of the 2007 presidential election, held on August 11, Berewa took second place with 38.3% of the vote, behind Koroma, the candidate of the opposition APC, who won 44.3%."Freetown opposition party wins majority"
Reuters (''IOL''), August 24, 2007. A second-round between Berewa and Koroma was held on September 8, and on September 17 Koroma was declared the winner, with 54.6% of the vote against 45.4% for Berewa.Rod MacJohnson
"Sierra Leone gets a new leader"
AFP (''The Times'', South Africa), September 17, 2007."S Leone opposition win presidency"
BBC News, 17 September 2007. Berewa promptly conceded defeat, and Koroma was sworn in later on the same day at a ceremony at which Berewa was present. In keeping with the SLPP constitution, which requires its leader to resign if the party loses a national election under his leadership, Berewa resigned as party leader on October 17, 2007."Berewa steps aside after losing vote"
AFP (''IOL''), October 18, 2007.

References

*http://www.africa-confidential.com/whos-who-profile/id/515/

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20070714222535/http://www.statehouse-sl.org/seberewa.htm
2006 address to the UN General Assembly
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