IPNEWS: The former ruling Unity Party (UP), says plan are underway for the formation of another coalition ahead of the general and presidential elections in 2023.
UP Secretary-General Mohammed Ali on the Voice of America Day Break Africa show on Tuesday, February 22,2022, stated that the Unity Party is currently in talks with the breakaway All Liberian Party of Benoni Urey and remnant of the Liberty Party lead by Senator,Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, including other grassroot political parties to forming a new coalition to battle incumbent President George Manneh Weah in 2023.
UP Breakaway, for Weah’s Landslide Victory:
Mohammed Ali laugh-out perception that its breakaway from the Collaborating Political Party (CPP) has given way to a second-term bid of incumbent President George Manneh Weah.
Ali stated that the opposition community was cognoscente that the public remain aware of the underperformance of the Weah’s government and there’s no way a second-term for the CDC government was in assured.
“The performance of the government over the years can justify why the Liberian people cannot reelect president Weah. The government has failed to resuscitate the economy and has reneged on its promises to create 20,000 jobs annually, inability to revive the living condition of Liberian people among other.” Ali stated.
Why Did the Unity Party Walk out of the CPP:
On the question of why the Unity Party walked out of the CPP, the UP-Secretary-General said that the refusal of the Alternative National Congress to participate in series of activities of the CPP, including boycotting various meetings regardless of continued confusion within one of the constituent party (Liberty Party)
Ali furthermore stated that it was impossible for the CPP to continued given that the unity and mutual respect which characterized the formation of the CPP was now lacking.
But regardless of the justification by Mohammed Ali, the Unity Party has come under sustained criticism over decision to breakaway from the CPP even through it currently chair the collaboration.
Ordinary Liberians have termed the breakaway is ‘unpatriotic’, and wonder how former Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai, captain of the Collaborating Police Parties (CPP) would have jumped the boat while it sails in troubled waters, abandoning CPP supporters and sympathizers in a state of hopelessness and neglect.
“It is so sad for the elderly statesman of the land.”
Announcing its breakaway last Friday, the former Liberian vice President Boakai stated among others, ‘ceaseless internal wrangling in the CPP’ under his watch that has distracted the four constituent parties (UP, ALP. ANC and LP) from their responsibilities to the Liberian people, coupled with pressure from his own UP that pushed him to give up his duty.
On the contrary, a senior member of the UP publicly disagreed. Former Senator John Ballout described the decision by his standard bearer as an emotional error and hoped that Chairman Boakai can re-visit the decision and go back to the Collaboration.
Mr. Ballout noted that arguments presented by his standard bearer clearly contradict efforts made over the period to unite the CPP and that Mr. Boakai only cataloged a plethora of problems but failed to provide solutions.
The breakaway of the Unity Party came as a shockwave to many after barely four months since former VP Joseph Boakai and standard bearer of the Unity Party took charge of the chairmanship of the CPP, ahead of a highly-cloudy elections next year.
Many are of the opinion that the breakaway of UP from the CPP is a show of lack of leadership by the UP-standard bearer so desperately desired for the entire country.
Political pundits says the Unity Party Boakai’s exit out of the Collaboration has surrendered the CPP to the ruling CDC even before the political battle can start in 2023.
“A general that fails to mobilize his troops and take charge is unfit to lead and therefore, cannot be entrusted with the duties of state. Chairman Boakai’s action clearly proved so.”
“In the first instance, leaders of the CPP were convinced that remaining in their separate ways to face incumbent President George Manneh Weah at the ballot box in 2023 would not achieve the desired result hence, the need to unite as a formidable opposition bloc under the CPP. Now Chairman Boakai has thrown the bathtub away with the baby, leaving the opposition parties scattered and weak to put a strong fight against President Weah something, that he has already acknowledged but yet tells Liberians that hope is coming.” A political pundit told IPNEWS
