sentences:  The SLPP previously controlled the Kono District Council local government and the Koidu city council, until 2008 when the APC took control.The SLPP has won Kono District in the last three Sierra Leone Presidential elections held in 1996, 2002 and 2007.In the 2007 Sierra Leone presidential election, the SLPP presidential candidate Solomon Berewa won the district over the APC candidate Ernest Bai Koroma, despite the fact that Koroma's Vice Presidential candidate Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana and Koroma's wife Sia Koroma are both natives of Kono District.