He defeated Samura Kamara of the ruling All People's Congress in the
runoff vote of the 2018 Sierra Leone presidential election with 51.8% of the votes to Kamara"s 48.2%. Bio succeeded Ernest Bai Koroma as president, who was constitutionally ineligible to run for the presidency because he had served the maximum two five year terms. Bio is a retired
Brigadier in the Sierra Leone Military. He was the military Head of State of Sierra Leone from January 16, 1996 to March 29, 1996 under the National Provisional Ruling Council.
Bio led a military coup in Sierra Leone on January 16, 1996, ousting his close friend and the leader of the NPRC junta government, Captain Valentine Strasser, following a division within senior members of the NPRC junta. In his first public speech after the coup, Bio justified his actions as a means to return Sierra Leone to a democratically elected civilian government and end the Sierra Leone civil war. Bio fulfilled his promise to return Sierra Leone to democracy.
Bio is the 33 of 35 children born to Sherbro Paramount Chief Charlie Bio II of Sogbini Chiefdom. Bio's father had nine wives. Bio graduated from the Military academy as a Second Lieutenant in the Sierra Leone Army in October 1987 at age 23.
After a year in Liberia as an ECOMOG soldier, the Sierra Leone Government ordered Bio and several members of Sierra Leonean soldiers serving in Liberia to immediately return to Sierra Leone.
After retiring from the military in 1996, Bio moved to the United States, where he earned a Masters Degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington.
Maada Bio is an ethnic Sherbro and a practicing Roman Catholic Christian . Bio's wife, Fatima Bio is a practicing Muslim and a Gambian national. The couple have one child together that was born in London. Bio has three children, all three born in the United States from a previous marriage.
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Yemisi: Yes. Sierra Leone's ruling All People's Congress presidential candidate, Samura Kamara, on Thursday said he would contest the results of the recent presidential election, after the electoral commission declared opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio the winner.
Kamara said on national television that the result of the March 31 run-off was distorted due to "massive ballot stuffing, over-voting and fraudulent voter registers."
Kamara said on national television that the result of the March 31 run-off was distorted due to "massive ballot stuffing, over-voting and fraudulent voter registers."
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