Times is fast approaching for the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) to seal a ticket they believed will land them the presidency from President George Weah and the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).
According to the CPP frame work document, by December 2021, the ticket should be sealed either through consensus, voters’ perception survey or convention. One thing that is very clear is that the CPP ticket will not be formed based on Consensus and the voters’ perception survey may likely not work, so it may go down to the primary.
Unity Party Political Leader and former Vice President Joseph Boakai, Alternative National Congress Political Leader Alexander Cummings are the two frontrunners for the Standard Bearer position of the CPP, though there is four constituent parties.
It appears that leaders of the two other parties, Liberty Party and ALL Liberian Party are yet to express interest in the Standard bearership.
There has been concern form Liberians regarding the survivability of the CPP given the barrage of attacks by supporters of each constituent’s party against one another.
Supporters of former Vice President Joseph Boakai claim Cummings lacks the number to unseat Mr. Weah at the polls two years from now and should stop been arrogant and succumb himself to a VP position, why Cummings supporters think that the former Vice President have nothing to offer after 40 years services in private and public sector.
Archie S.S. Glay ANC: Desperate time requires desperate measure!! We don’t need repetition of the wasted 12 years.
Winston Hampaye another ANC supporters write on the ANC-Global facebook page: Boakai’s incompetence is visible and no longer secret, He has demonstrated that on the national stage and all have seen it. Why do you want to put such a fail and ill old man in position to fail? This is what I refer to as “ELDER ABUSE” please stop the deception.
Joseph Valai UP; “Make no mistake, the framers of the CPP had one belief that the nation’s economy is in turmoil, our democracy is been undermined while the economy is at all-time on a low and corruption remains pervasive, so a need to collaborate to remove George Weah remains the only and best alternative.
Given Boakai’s over half a million votes in 2017, the framers knew there would be one man to ‘Take Weah Out,’ and that person is Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai former Vice President of Liberia and a revered son of Lofa County.
A man of over forty years of public record and experience, loved by the Liberian people as seen in their votes during the 2017 elections.
It was his single most influence and public record that led him to the second round, not the UP or Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
In fact, before the 2017 election it was glaring that Ellen and Joe had fallen out with Boakai remaining on his own headed to the polls, he proved his prowess by showing strong signs of defeating Weah.
A distant fifth placer cannot take Weah down, no not now or anytime soon, so Boakai remains our best chance to winning President George Weah.
CPP viability sits on the shoulders of Boakai and there is no turning back for any of us in the movement to emancipate our people; this is the single most reason for this establishment. Boakai or we brace ourselves for another six or possibly eighteen years as opposition.
Anyone who doesn’t believe that Boakai is our best chance at the moment but an unorthodox team of failed people headed nowhere must rethink.
We are ardently unapologetic of a Boakai’s leadership of this country and we think it’s a mere bluff for anyone in the CPP to think or dream otherwise.
CPP lives and breathes Joseph Boakai, don’t be mistaken, when the final whistle is blown it will be
Amidst these attacks on each other it has left many Liberians thinking that the CCP is going nowhere and is just precious of the Liberian people times.
As things stand within the four members Collaboration, former Vice President Jospeh Boakai is enjoying the support two parties, his Unity Party and the All Liberian Party of Businessman Benoni Urey why Cummings hold on to his ANC and hope to switch the Liberty Party in his favor.
All attention on the LP
As the convention draws closer, crossover taking place and aspirants knocking every little door they see, all eyes is now on the Liberty Party as to where the Party stands.
The Party is currently rocked in an internal tussle between its Political Leader Grand Bassa County Senator Nyonblee Kangar Lawrence and the Party Chairman Musa Hassan Bility.
Senator Lawrence accused chairman Bility of tempering with the amended constitution presented to the National Elections Commission and wrote the NEC seeking the withdrawal of the document.
On July 10, 2021, the Chairman of the Party, Mr. Musa Bility, also wrote to counter the letter of the Political Leader. Consequently, on Monday, August 16, 2021, the NEC cited the parties to a conference and referred them to the party’s “internal conflict resolution mechanism as per Section 3.3 of its Guidelines governing the conducts of political parties, thus:
“Every Political Party shall ensure the creation of a Grievance and Ethics Committee in its structure. The Grievance and Ethics Committee shall ensure that every partisan is given due process in time of disputes. All intra-party disputes must first be heard and disposed of by the Grievance and Ethics Committee. Partisans who are dissatisfied with a decision of the Grievance and Ethics Committee may appeal to the Executive Committee of the party.”
It is getting clearer by the day that Liberty Party may break or make the CPP by the decision they will take as to who heads the CPP.
Political pundits think that which side the Liberty Party will take has been the real crisis of late in the party and not the current rigmarole between Senator Kangar Lawrence and Chairman Musa Bility
The Party is currently divided as to who it will support, but one of its influential members Senator Abraham Darius Dillon have already declared his support for former Vice President Jospeh Boakai, a decision Chairman Musa Bility says undermines the LP’s position before its official endorsement of candidate of their overall choice.
Dillon is the second LP executive committee member to endorse the former Vice President after Senator Steve Zargo did earlier this year.
LP political leader Senator Nyonblee Kangar Lawrence is reportedly sadden with Boakai, while both Chairman Musa Bility and Secretary General Martin Saye Kollah are said to be lining towards Alexander Cummings of the ANC.
The split in the LP regarding its choice for the CPP standard bearer position appears to be major surprise to many as the Party has always being seen moving towards the ANC.
Elder Jallah’s leaked Audio
The LP was at the centered of public discussions early 2021 when its National Vice Chairman for Operations, Mr. Elder Jallah was heard in a leak audio telling the Party Grand Gedeh County Chapter chairman to endorse Alexander B. Cummings over former Vice President Boakai in the upcoming CPP convention, and that the LP would allegedly receive half of government jobs in the Cummings’s government.
Jallah also said that the LP will support the ANC rather than UP, as Cummings has already agreed to have their political leader, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence or Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, as his companion in the 2023 presidential election.
The LP official informed the Grand Gedeh chair that the party had already bought two motorcycles for the county chairman and general secretary and that funds were available for gasoline.
Jallah in the leak audio also told the chairman of the party’s Grand Gedeh chapter that if Cummings is considered and wins the 2023 election, he will provide Liberty Partisans with employment opportunities at a “50-50 level”.
In the same vein, Jallah can be heard saying that LP executives don’t trust the Unity Party people and their flag bearer Joseph Boakai.
He claimed Joseph Boakai had problems with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and could fight her if she took over state power in 2023, and the LP does not want a losing battle.
Allegation of 5 Million form Cummings
There are unconfirmed reports that the ANC is ready to dash out 5 million to the LP to support Alexander Cummings at the pending Convention.
Phoning on the Spoon Talk Tuesday night when the LP chairman Musa and former Deputy Information Isaac Jackson were guest, Liberty assistant Secretary General Daniel Sando alleged that Mr. Bility told the Executive Committee in a WhatsApp chartroom that he (Musa Bility) was supporting Mr. Cummings and that the ANC political leader has promised to give US$ 5 million.
Bility did not respond to the accusation, but Mr. Jackson, who is in the business of raining insults described Sando as a puppet to Senator Kangar Lawrence.
Who needs the LP the most?
The LP is being considered as the hottest constituent member of the Collaborating Political Parties. As both UP’s Jospeh Boakai and ANC’s Alexander Cummings appear to be holding crucial discussions with executives and members of the Party.
As both men prepare for the primary, former Vice President Joe Boakai appears to be in a comfortable position with 608 delegates on his side that is if delegates of his Unity Party and that of the All Liberian Party of Businessman Benoni Urey remain committed to him and getting a handful of Liberty Party delegates will be enough for the former Vice President to land the ticket,
For Cummings losing out on the LP will be detrimental to his quest for the CPP ticket and the Presidency.
The ANC political leader desperately need if not all 90% of the Liberty Party delegates and fight to lure some delegates from the UP and ANC camp.
As a stand, Mr. Cummings now have more work to do then his competitor Joseph Boakai, though politics it is not done until it is done.
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