Former Liberia ruling party of ex-Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has left Liberia’s biggest Opposition Collaborating Political bloc
The CPP has since been engulfed with infighting with counter accusations over alterations of a framework document that bought the group together.
The CPP or Collaborating parties comprises of the former ruling Unity Party, the Alternative National Congress (ANC), the All Liberian Party (ALP) and the opposition Liberty Party.
Unity Party standard bearer, former vice president Joseph Boakai told a news conference Wednesday they are leaving due to heavy division.
Boakai said the Unity Party will no longer collaborate with an undefined and divided CPP, where everyone is gunning for power, the former Liberian Vice President Joseph N. Boakai said he is of a strong conviction that the former ruling Unity Party (UP) single-handedly will unseat incumbent President George Manneh Weah and his Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and make he a one-turn President.
According to Mr. Boakai, the former ruling UP did not get into the collaboration to fight, but to work for the single important goal of proving to the Liberian people that the opposition bloc has the right alternative to unseat President George Weah through the ballot box in 2023.
“We conceived the idea; we birthed the idea of the collaboration.
We did not form it to open a boxing ring to fight. We came together to prove to the Liberian people that we can provide a better alternative. If we realize that what we are into is a fighting club rather than being people of like minds, then we can no longer continue,” he added.
Recently Liberian Opposition leaders remain engaged in a fierce battle for leverage, several controversial and growing concerns within their ranks, that the internecine political warfare, that is left unchecked.
UP Standard Bearer Joseph Nyumah Boakai in the press on tuesday at the Unity Party headquarter on Broadstreet, Monrovia said the UP has no more confidence in the Collaboration anymore.
Shockingly, what remains unclear will there be a new collaboration established ahead of the major 2023 Presidential Election, however Liberian, including political pundits, where shock to heard the news of the Unity Party breakaway, which apparantly pinpointed the falls of the CPP and there might be no chance for the opposition political party to win the CDC comes 2023.
Cummings reacts
Responding to UP withdrawal Alternative National Congress (ANC) of Alexander Cummings described as a “failure” of leadership Amb. Joseph Boakai’s decision to withdraw the Unity Party from the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) merger.
The Unity Party standard bearer Wednesday announced the withdrawal of the former ruling party from the three-party collaboration, blaming the inability to mend broken relationships in the CPP on the political leader of ANC, Cummings, whom despite being accused of altering the CPP Framework Document, has reportedly failed to attend meetings to resolve the issue.
“You would recall that I personally attended all previous leadership turnovers, events, and meetings of the CPP in a show of support for every leadership and the desire to work together. I even campaigned with all collaboration Party leaders.
You would also recall that during the turnover to me, all but the ANC leader and members attended, even though I had called Mr. Cummings personally the day before, and he responded by saying he was already in the United States to attend a meeting,” Boakai said in his defense to withdrawing Unity Party from the CPP.
Meanwhile ANC believes Amb. Boakai’s decision is not only a promise broken he made to unite and reconcile the CPP when he assumed the rotational Chair, but also it is a failure of leadership.
The ANC said the withdrawal announcement also breaks the Unity Party’s promise made to the people of Liberia that the CPP will remain the vehicle through which the bad leadership of Pres. George Weah will be replaced, and their hopes and aspiration for a better Liberia will be realized.
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