Former VP Boakai wants people with integrity at the Senate

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Endorsement Program of Dillon candidacy at the Liberty Party Headquarters in Monrovia[photo: Calvin Quays]

By Calvin Quays|LPR News, Monrovia

The Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) over the weekend endorsed Senator Abraham Darius Dillon candidacy for Montserrado County in the pending senatorial elections for December 8, 2020.

Speaking at the endorsement ceremony held the Liberty Party (LP) Headquarters in Congo Town Former Vice President and the Political Leader of Unity Party (UP), Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai said Liberia needs people who have integrity to transform the nation at the Liberian Senate.

 Ambassador Boakai  stated that Liberians should not compromised the growth  and development  of Liberia  with friendship  and incompetent individuals  who  are not concern about the plight  and situation confronting the country, but their aim is to get rich  at the detriment of the ordinary people.

According to him, Senator Dillon has demonstrated the highest degree of integrity and honesty at the Liberian Senate to move the development of Liberia and the living condition of the people forward.

He noted that with all the natural resources in Liberia, the country  has been refer to as the poorest nation  in the World under the leadership of President George Manneh Weah  as the result of incompetency.

Ambassador Boakai stressed that Liberians should put the interest of the nation first rather than voting for money in the pending senatorial elections if Liberia should be respected among the comity of nations again.

Meanwhile, the Montserrado County Senator Dillon said Liberia needs redemption under the leadership of President Weah because Mr. Weah was not ready to become president of nation, but claimed that the people wanted him.

Senator Dillon stressed that in the pending senatorial elections, he will beat his opponent from the ruling party more than three hundred thousand votes.

 He noted that  Liberia is at a  cross-road  with the presidency of  President Weah and the senatorial  elections should be the beginning process  of redeeming Liberia  through the ballot box  for the CPP candidates  in all the 15 counties .

Senator Dillon explained that five thousands United States Dollars as a salary for lawmakers in Liberia for now will be enough when most of the basic social services are provided for the people, they would become beggars as the Finance Minister wants them to be beggars.