A group under the banner Majority Members of the National Youth Congress of the Liberty Party has declared the Party chairman Musa Hassan Bility, WANTED for allegation of illegally and ‘nefariously altering’ the Party’s Constitution.
They said this was done in order to please Mr. Bility self-political interest at the detriment of the improvised partisans whose hopes and dreams appear to be unachieved.
The group told a News conference in Monrovia Wednesday September 8, 2021, that Chairman Bility and people they described as “cartel of gangsters” unlawfully and allegedly altered ” Article 6.1 of the revised Constitution of 2021.
It states that “The Standard Bearer or Political Leader in consultation and collaboration with the National Executive Committee-NEC shall formulate policy and procedures to implement the decision of the National Convention, call special convention as provided for in article 8 and take such order actions and proper measures that he\she may deem as necessary to advance the best interest of the party.
“Bility criminally changed that to “The National Executive Committee-NEC in consultation and collaboration with the Political Leader or Standard Bearer shall formulate policy and procedures to implement the decision of the National Convention, call special convention as provided in ARTICLE 8 and take such order actions and proper measures that he\she may deem necessary to advance the best interest of the party, therefore Bility is declare WANTED and the Majority Members of the Youth Congress hereby issue a partisan arrest for Fraudster Musa Bility” the group noted.
The self-proclaim Majority Members of the Liberty Party National Youth Congress called on partisans and stewards of the Party to lawfully arrest the living body of Mr. Bility and subsequently turn him over to the Liberia National Police for criminal investigation and possible prosecution by the Court in keeping with the laws of the country.
Meanwhile, the Majority Members of the LP National Youth Congress has called for the resignation of Onimenus K. James, Chairman of the National Youth Congress and Anthony Cooper, National vice Chair for Administration for alleged association with Chairman Bility in manipulating the Party’s revised Constitution of 2021 and several other counts.
They Liberty Party majority National Youth Congress Members, termed James and Cooper’s configurations with Chairman Bility in the alleged “ALTERATION OF THE PARTY CONSTITUTION” without the consent of the Majority Members of the Youth Congress as deceitful, devious and suspicious, something the claim have made the leadership of the National Youth Congress disrespectful thus portraying them as an accomplice, which has tinted, ruined and publicly created dark cloud over our Party’s image and further back-rolled the gains and progresses made by the party over years.
They accused Chairman Onimenus James of failing to convene National executive committee meeting on a regular basis, as well as unilateral committing the Party Youth Congress to the ANC, after receiving huge sum of money from its Political Leader, Alexander Benedict Cummings to support his candidacy for the would be Standard Bearer of the Collaborating Political Parties comes 2023.
Furthermore, the group mentioned that they have been informed from a perfect source that James and Cooper reportedly received the whooping sum of US$25, 000 (twenty five thousand United States dollars) from Coalition For Democratic Change-CDC through the office of Mr. James’ Boss, the CEO Logix and current deputy Speaker of the 54th Legislature, Cllr. Jonathan Fonati Koffa in order to compromise the stance of the Party’s Youth Congress ahead of the Party’s position with regards to the Collaborating Political Parties’ formulation of would be its Standard Bearer thus giving President Weah his team of looters a second term.
According to them, they could not also ignore the administrative ineptitude and inability on the part of Chairman James and Cooper, and the single handling of the youth congress by the two men.
They indicated that the counts listed against the two Liberty Party Youth Executives, were irrefutable and indisputable, and that Chairman Onesimus K. James and Vice Chair for Administration, Anthony Cooper have proven to be partners in crime with Chairman Bility and it will be a prudent decision for them to step aside.
In a related the development, the Majority Members of the National Youth Congress of the Liberty Party hereby mandate the National vice Chair for Operation, Emmanuel Zokpo to act as National Youth Chairman ahead of the pending convention
The LP crisis continue
Liberty Party is a constituent member of the Collaborating Political Parties a four Party coalition seeking to democratically unseat President George Weah in 2023.
The Party is now seen as the one that will decide who wins the nomination for the CPP ticket to face footballer turned President George Weah given that Benoni Urey All Liberian Party has already declared support for former Vice President and Unity Party Political Party Leader Joseph Boakai and Alexander Cummings controlling his Alternative National Congress.
But it 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.”
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
Political pundits think that on who side the goes has been the real crisis of late in the party and not the constitutional alteration for which the youth league is declaring Bility wanted.
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
Liberty Party was at the centered of public discussions early this year, 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.
“LP will support the ANC rather than UP, and Cummings has already agreed to have our political leader, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence or Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, as his companion in the 2023 presidential election” Jallah said in the audio.
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”.
The LP execitve who was suspended after the recording went virial, was 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 US$ 5 million to the LP to support Alexander Cummings at the pending Convention
Phoning on the Spoon Talk recently 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 Joseph Boakai and ANC’s Alexander Cummings appear to be holding crucial discussion 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 ALP 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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