IPNews-Monrovia-Liberia-23 November 2018: Ongoing leadership crisis within the former governing National Patriotic Party (NPP) has now taken another twist with loyal faction loyal to current Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor filing a formal lawsuit against President George Manneh Weah and all officials of the Coalition of Democratic Change (CDC).
In its petition to the Civil Law Court, the NPP prayed for a ‘writ of Preliminary Injunction’ on its embattled Chairman James Biney, Secretary General Bolton Dennis, CDC Chairman Mulbah Morlu and all officials of the Coalition for Democratic Change for “interfering with the domestic affairs of the NPP”.
In a eleven counts ‘Writ of Preliminary Injunction, amongst other things, accused respondents James Biney, Bolton Dennis, Mulbah Morlu and all officials of the Coalition for Democratic Change, of meddling in the internal affairs of the NPP and positioning themselves as leaders of the party.
The petitioners led by former Vice President John Gray prayed the Civil Law Court to restrain, prohibit and prevent respondents from carrying out activities of the party and from interfering with the internal affairs of the NPP.
Vice President Taylor is currently out of the country for unexplained reasons but political pundits say she ignited the lawsuit and left the country so she can excuse herself of the responsibility of the suit.
The NPP has been locked down in a serious leadership crisis since Vice President Taylor reinstated Senator Sando Johnson, former Bong County Representative George Mulbah and Mr. Andrew Peters to the positions they vacated when they left the NPP to joined other political parties during the 2017 representative and presidential elections.
Former Representative George Mulbah turned down his reinstatement while Senator Sando Johnson and Andrew Peters have also remained adamant, insisting they cannot vacate their positions because they were reinstated by the Vice President.
The leadership crisis recently led to violence at the NPP headquarters resulting into the injuries of some partisans and the incarceration of several others by the Liberian National Police.
