National Election Commission has finally declared Musa Bility as Chairman of the Liberty Party and recognized his fraction of the party legitimate.
Bility and some senior members of the party have been at loggerheads with some members accusing him of altering some provision of the party’s constitution to suit his interest.
However, after several weeks of battles at the NEC, Bility was reaffirmed as chairman of the party on Monday.
The National Elections Commission (Commission) rejected the Motion to Dismiss filed by lawyers representing the Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence et al) in the Complaint filed by the Liberty Party (LP), under the approval of the LP National Executive Committee and signature of the LP National Chairman Musa Hassan Bility et al, against several suspended members of LP for fraudulently representing themselves as LP officials, using the LP name and insignia in public communications, and purporting to be authorized to act or speak on behalf of the LP.
In their Motion to Dismiss filed on February 16, 2022, Respondents’ lawyers argued the following that the Complaint was illegal as there was no link between the Complainant and Respondent and the Complainant lacked legal capacity and standing to bring the Complaint since they had been “expelled and suspended”; and
That the Commission lacked jurisdiction to hear the Complaint brought by the Plaintiff since the Commission’s Board had already ruled in the matter regarding the LP Constitution.
Meanwhile the LP says it is also dismayed by the Unity Party’s (UP) recent withdrawal from the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) and appalled that the UP did not even extend the courtesy of informing the other constituent Political Parties of the CPP before submitting its decision to the Commission.
While it is the UP’s prerogative to withdraw from the CPP, the LP believes that this decision by UP is a huge injustice to the CPP, specifically, and the opposition community, generally, and only serves to make it more difficult to realize the goals and objectives set forth in the CPP Framework Document (FD).
