IPNews-Monrovia: Th¹e Vice President of the Republic of Liberia and Standard Bearer of the National Patriotic Party (NPP), Madam Jewel Howard-Taylor has graciously accepted the resignation of Madam Esther Walker, Superintendent of Bong County and former Vice Chair for Gender Affairs of NPP.

In her explanation to the Media Thursday, July 9,2020, Madam Walker intimated that her interest no longer aligns with the NPP but was quick to mention that she remains a Member of the Coalition for Democratic Change. She asserted that her decision is not based on personal issues with the Vice President as the relationship remains cordial.

Madam Walker announced in the same medium to join the Congress for Democratic Change which is one of the constituent parties of the Coalition.

The Vice President has however recognized Madam Walker service to the NPP and expressed no reservations of her decision to leave the Party.

The NPP as a former ruling Party and one of the most grassroots political parties in Liberia has always survived for decades amidst the exodus of different partisans.

Madam Howard-Taylor was emphatic that the NPP remains a formidable force in the body politics of the state with the emergence of firebrand young people to keep the Party’s vision alive.

Madam Vice President also congratulated the newly elected leadership of the NPP Bong Chapter and challenged them to work tirelessly across the nooks and cranny of Bong in order to keep the Party relevant.

On yesterday, July 10, Bong County Controversial Superintendent Madam Esther Yamah Walker departed the National Patriotic Party with immediate effect.

Addressing a news conference at the Gbarnga Administration Building, Superintendent Walker attributed her resignation to the titanic leadership calamity currently in the NPP of former rebel leader Charles G. Taylor.

Controversial Walker told journalists that the existing power struggle in the political group has jerky the ex-governing party crafted agenda.

“Due to the many divisions that are currently existing within the party as a result of leadership crisis which has shifted the course of the platform upon which the party was established, as well as completely altered the primary agenda of the party as a member of the Coalition for Democratic Change, I hereby resign as a partisan and denounce my membership to the National Patriotic Party” she noted.

“I no longer share the ideology of the National Patriotic Party anymore” she further clarified.

Madam Walker further extended gratitude to her former political mother and mentor, Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, Chairman and members of the NPP for the opportunity and immunities afforded during her stay at the party for 27 consecutive years.

“Again, thank you for the opportunity afforded me to share my experiences and ideas with the party” she averred.

Meanwhile, the former NPP partisan at the same time declared her membership for the Congress for Democratic Change of ex- soccer legend and now President George Manneh Weah.

Esther Walker noted that she is of the conviction that the Congress for Democratic Change is the single best party that is capable of moving Liberia on the right trajectory.

Walker promised to serve the Congress with commitment, hard work and patriotism diligently.

“Mr. Chairman, predicated upon the aforementioned, I have the pleasing duty, through this official medium, to declare my membership with the Congress for Democratic Change. I am overwhelmingly convinced that the CDC is the single best party that is capable of moving this nation to the development and prosperity that will better the lives of Liberians” she declared.

Officially receiving the CDC new partisan, on behalf of Chairman Mulbah Morlu, Sayblee V. Weyea, an official of the CDC in Bong County welcomed Sup.
Mr. Weyea branded Walker a major factor in Bong politics.

“Today our hearts are lifted to see a strong and forceful political actor to join the party. We are happy and we will work with you” Weyea assured.

Many pundits in the county think it is a political slap in the VP’s face considering that Madam Jewel Howard Taylor brought her to political prominence.

“We don’t just know what Madam Taylor has done to her that she has betrayed the political struggle” they said.
They also think madam action is solely intended to protect her job.

The Walker and Taylor have had sour relationship beginning late 2018, several months after madam Taylor was elected as Liberia’s first female Vice President.
There has been continuous rift in the National Patriotic Party over the last four (4) years ranging from the controversies involving Mr. James Barney and others about position.

There has also been a counter claim about the legitimate chairmanship in the county with some members recognizing Mr. Alexander Johnson, a former staffer in the offices of two times district #3 Representative George S. Mulbah and Mr. James Dorbor Sao, Sr; and now the newly elected Bong County Chairperson, Madam Wayfa F. Ciapha.

Meanwhile, sources within both the Vice President Office and the NPP said Superintendent Esther Yamah Walker has not had an impact into the NPP.

“She does not attend meetings or gatherings within the party. She has been a burden to the party. In fact, she does not have any major political impact in the party or within the county. We are not worried” they concluded.

The resignation of Madam Esther Yamah Walker from the NPP adds to the already political rift between VP Taylor and her political son, Representative J. Marvin Cole.

It can be recorded; Marvin Cole worked for Madam Jewel Howard Taylor as Political Affairs Officer while she was serving as Bong County senator, a position that brought him to prominence before heading the Gbarnga City Cooperation (GCC) and his trial to the Liberian National Legislature in 2017.

Madam Taylor was very formidable in the election of Marvin Cole as representative of district three (3) against one of the giants and executive member of the National Patriotic Party who later crossed over to the People’s Unification Party; Hon. George S. Mulbah.