The daughter of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has endorsed the candidacy of Senator Henry Yallah, days after her father’s ex-wife vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor announced that she won’t support the senator’s re-election bid.
Howard-Taylor had announced that the National Patriotic Party, a constituent party of the ruling Coalition of Democratic Change, will not support Yallah’s re-election because he has failed tools bring any significant dividends to the people who elected him.
Charlene Taylor in her endorsement of Senator Henry Yallah she said her presence at the Wednesday’s primary was to indicate the NPP support to Yallah’s re-election.
‘The NPP as a party remains committed to your re-election and nothing is going to stop that. We understand that our standard bearer Madam Jewel Howard-Taylor is not supporting you but the NPP as a party will stand by you.”
‘Don’t be moved by what they say. I have come here as a member of the primary committee of the NPP”, she adds.
You have our fullest support, senator. You’re a member of the Coalition for Democratic Change, we can’t despise you. We will stand by you to the end,” she continues.
Charlene Taylor also said that the NPP will ensure Yallah is re-elected despite the vice president’s decision to not support him. ‘The NPP as a party remains committed to your re-election and nothing is going to stop that.
We understand that our standard bearer Madam Jewel Howard-Taylor is not supporting you but the NPP as a party will stand by you,” she said.
Charlene Taylor was not the only top ranking member of the NPP who was present at Wednesday’s primary.
Bong’s District Three lawmaker, Marvin Cole, a longtime ally to Howard-Taylor, also read an endorsement statement of his own, declaring support for Yallah.
Cole said it was now time that the ruling coalition focus its attention on winning Bong County and stop the “unnecessary” backstabbing.
VP Taylor Sour Relationship
“We have to focus what is at stake and do away with the petit politics that’s not healthy for the coalition. I, Hon Marvin Josiah Cole, do hereby endorse the re-election bid of senator Henry Yallah,” Cole said.
Yallah won Wednesday’s primary of the Congress for Democratic Change unopposed. But what remains a challenge for him, according to political pundits, is settle whatever disagreements between him and Vice President Taylor.
Many political pundits say the latest move by both Rep. Cole and Charlene Taylor has shown some of the sour relationship the vice president is having in the coalition for Democratic Change and its leadership headed by Amb. George Manneh Weah.
Relationship between VP Taylor and president Weah has since soured following the ushering in of the administration in 2018 with the VP Taylor attempting to resign on one occasion.
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