IPNews-Monrovia: Reports reaching this paper has revealed that a leadership crisis has hit the opposition All Liberian Coalition Party(ALCOP ) in Monrovia.
In a communication from the disenchanted members of ALCOP through a petition to the Chairman of the National Elections Commission Cllr. Jerome Korkoya pleaded with the NEC to nullify and set aside the result of what they call un-constitutional and un-acceptable national mini-convention of the ALCOP that was on October 5, 2019 in Monrovia.
The petition that was officially signed by the ALL Liberian Coalition Party National Vice Chairman for Political Affairs and Spokesman for the concern and distressed partisans Jerry Yarkpah indicated that the convention was contrary to their party’s constitution and by-law stressing that there are hard facts that have showing that the processes leading to convention was staged manage by the Acting Chairman of ALCOP Ansu Dorley as a means of allowing him to remain in power at the detriment of the majority members of party national executive council and partisans.
According to the petitioners the action from their acting chairman Dorley has the propensity to bring their party to public disrepute and total disarray something that provoke them to request the NEC to permit the party to conduct a holistic and transparent national Mimi-Convention that will reflect the factual representation of their partisans throughout Liberia.
The petitioners want the NEC to set aside the results of the October 5, 2019 un-constitutional mini-convention that was organized and executed by its acting chairman Dorley. They are also calling on the NEC to help supervise a mini convention in sixty days that will reflect the border representation of all of their partisans across the country.
Moreover in their eight counts petition the petitioners pointed that there were no National executive council meeting with quorum that authorized the process of conducting national mini-convention on October 5, 2019 for the democratic election for party leaders.
The petitioners further indicated that after the questionable mini –convention , Mr.Dorly willfully and unconstitutionally appointed madam Bandu Kromah as national chairlady of the Party’s women wing without the acquiescence of the national executive council and the endorsement of their political leader in line with their constitution.
They further disclosed that the chairman has failed to submit a status report of the party activities since his ascendency as acting chairman of the party in line with the constitution.
The petitioners also pointed out that since the indefinite suspension of the party’s democratically elected chairman Maogogo Fahnbulleh , the current leadership structure under Mr.Dorley is incomplete and does not reflect their party’s constitution among others.
Some of those who signed the petition included Jerry w. Yarkpah , National vice Chair for Political Affairs , Richard W.Mappy Maryland County Chairperson, Theresa Toh, national chairlady , Milton Dwana Chairperson Gbarpolu County, Sema Farcarthy Grand Kru County, among others.
When contacted the Acting National Chairman of the All Liberian Coalition Party Ansu Dorley told our reporter that he was not responding to any petitioners allegation on grounds that he is not vin the know of what they were accusing him about.
The All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) is a political party in Liberia. In the last elections held on 19 July 1997, the ALCOP presidential candidate Alhaji G.V. Kromah won 4.02% of the vote.
The party won 3 of 64 seats in the and 2 of 26 in the Senate. While international observers deemed the polls administratively free and transparent, they noted that it had taken place in an atmosphere of intimidation because most voters believed that former rebel leader and National Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Charles Taylor would return to war if defeated.
Kromah ran again as the party’s presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 elections. He won 2.8% of the vote. The party won one seat in the Senate and two in the House of Representatives.
