Liberia’s renowned human rights lawyer, Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe has accepted petition to run for the country highest seat in 2023 presidential election.
Speaking over the weekend when he accepted in Nimba County Cllr. Gongloe disclosed that he will learn from the strong unification policies of Arthur Barclay and William V.S. Tubman to keep the country united, and that of William R. Tolbert’s integrated rural development program as it was meant to slow down rural-urban migration.
“I remember him (Tolbert) saying, ‘The soil is a bank’ and ‘I will lift Liberians from mats to mattresses’ and that he promised to build “a wholesome functioning society with people in the city and the interior is kept busy for the development of Liberia,'” Gongloe added.
Cllr. Gongloe added that infrastructural development, with emphasis on farm to market roads, school buildings, and clinics; the issue of gender balance in government with at least fifty percent of the cabinet ministerial positions occupied by women; and the comprehensive youth development program, with a focus on academic and skill sports and athletics, talents in music, drama, and other entertainment programs are areas of his concern.
On President Weah, Cllr. Gongloe disclosed that the leadership has increased poverty, unhappiness, and hopelessness, even where those in power were elected on the promise that their government would bring “hope change”.
“The change that the voters thought was meant to bring hope has brought hopelessness and despair, thereby making life meaningless for the masses of the people,” Cllr. Google added.
He noted that the Weah-led CDC, having made a majority of the people so poor, is aware that the Liberian people know better and will not accept falsehood anymore.
“CDC has become a producer of poverty in Liberia. Therefore, the Liberian people will not vote for the CDC in 2023. The Liberian people will vote CDC out of office in 2023.
For the Liberian people to make progress, CDC must be kicked out of office in 2023,” Cllr. Gongloe said. It is for these reasons, among many, that I have decided to transition from advocacy to electoral politics and to accept the appeals of many Liberians.
“Today I offer myself as the driver of the train that will take all Liberians to a better Liberia.
This train to a better Liberia will drop despair, desperation, and hopelessness off the train and bring on board the train happiness, delight, optimism, and confidence in the government of Liberia. Join the train fellow Liberians to a better Liberia. The choice is yours,” Cllr. Gongloe said.
Cllr. Gongloe, the immediate past president of the Liberia National Bar Association, has also held many leadership positions in Liberia including Solicitor General of Liberia during the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led administration.
He has been in the leadership arena of the country for more than 25 years now since the early 1990s
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