IPNEWS-Monrovia: One of the key opposition figures who is the political leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander Cummings has told first time Liberian voters in Caldwell in Montserrado County that for the forthcoming 2023 presidential and legislative elections, the government is expected to throw lot of money around as way of inducing voters to cast their votes for them but he has urged the people to eat the money because it is tax payers money.
Mr. Cummings has however, urged them to take the money and vote for the right people in order for their living conditions to be changed.
“Come election time, the government is going to spend a lot of money. It’s going to be your money that they are going to be spending. You should take their money, you should eat their money because it is your money…but when you go to vote, you should vote for the right people, otherwise your suffering will continue,” Cummings said.
Cummings, as he has done in several places in recent time, visited Caldwell over the weekend. He was welcomed by a cheering crowd most of whom were youths especially, the first time voters.
He told the young people that Liberia is too rich for its citizens to be poor, adding that there are lots of things that need to be changed in order for the system to work for everybody.
He added: “Our education system needs to change; it needs to get better so that we can prepare you young people to take over this country and make it even better for us.”
“Our legal system, the judicial system, needs to be improved. Today, young women are getting raped and sexually harassed. All of these bad things are happening and the legal system is not working to punish the people who are doing it.”
“These are something that we need to change and I promise that with your support God blesses me I get to serve you, we will change these things,” Cummings emphasized.
Because of his desire to change what he termed as a spoiled system; Cummings says his opponents are putting up a fight to distort his good intent for Liberia.
“Young people represent over 60 percent of Liberia’s population. So, everything we are doing is for your benefit. The people who are fighting us, are fighting you. They don’t want to see you prosper, they don’t want to see you get an education, they don’t want to see you get a good job for you to take care of your family,” he said.
Cummings added: “When God blesses us, one of the first things we will do on day one is to start a national youth service program to start engaging our young people –to give them work to do because they are our future.”
Since the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, the ANC political leader who was referred to as new comer to Liberian politics, has been building his constituencies around the country as he occasionally pays county visits to sell his ideas and vision for the country.
Mr. Cummings through his Cummings Africa Foundation has also undertaken lots of projects in Liberia to as a way of giving back to Liberians who are in need.
Mr. Cummings’ ANC and the divided Liberty Party are the only remaining parties within the Collaboration Political Parties (CPP) since the withdrawal of the All Liberia Party and former ruling Unity Party (UP) from the collaboration for reasons yet to resonate with Liberians.
As for the CPP, it has reported said that it will not withdraw from the CPP because the collaboration is the only alternative to democratically unseat the ruling CDC administration of President George Weah.
