IPNEWS-Monrovia: Ahead of the 2023 presidential and legislative elections, the political leader and standard bearer of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) Alexander B. Cummings continues to build up more constituencies in Montserrado County, especially in Monrovia and its surrounding suburbs.
On Thursday, August 4, hundreds of supporters and well-wishers in collaboration with a local women auxiliary, the Determined Women in Battery Factory, gave a rousing welcome to the Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Mr. Alexander Cummings.
The efficient ceremony which formed part of a cultural and traditional Grebo dance performance was a show of massive support by the women group for the Presidential bid of Mr. Cummings in the 2023 general elections.
The ceremony was attended by representatives and elder groups from the six-block communities and surrounding areas, in Battery factory, Plank Field.
Battery factory, Plank Field is a slum community and home to nearly 15,000 inhabitants, most of whom live in zinc shacks. The community dwellers lack access to safe drinking water, have no clinic or hospital, as well as no school and no toilet facility.
The spokesperson of the Determined Women, Ms. Mamie Gbotoe, in a special statement, said the area has suffered years of neglect by succeeding governments that have subjected the poor urban dwellers to deplorable and inhumane living conditions. She made a passionate plea to the ANC Political Leader, who she said is the first Presidential Candidate to visit the area, to do all in his power and help bring relief to people living in the community.
In response, the ANC Political Leader, Mr. Cummings lauded the Women group and community dwellers for the warm reception and the expression of support for his Presidential bid in 2023.
Mr. Cummings said he was saddened by the deplorable and inhumane living conditions of the people of Battery factory, Plank Field community, and blamed it on the insensitivity and corrupt leadership of President George Weah.
He pleaded with Liberians to embrace, support and vote for a new ANC government, which is genuinely committed to bringing about real change that will lift the vast majority out of extreme poverty and improve basic social services and conditions of all Liberians nationwide.
He cautioned Liberians to refrain from repeating past mistakes of electing corrupt, incompetent and unqualified leaders, that will not only add to their suffering but will subject them and their families to perpetual poverty and deprivation.
Mr. Cummings’ ANC and the Liberty Party are the only two remaining parties of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) after two other erstwhile member parties – the former ruling Unity Party of Joseph Boakai and All Liberia Party of Benoni Urey pulled out of the collaboration.
Mr. Cummings has always said the CPP will contest the 2023 elections as a collaboration despite the pull out of two erstwhile members. The UP and ALP had accused the ANC of altering their framework document and after court hearing, the case was dropped because there was no evidence to convict the ANC.
Meanwhile, political pundits say Mr. Cummings’ engagement with various communities in Montserrado County is a positive step on the part of the ANC leader, who since the 2017 presidential elections chose to remain in Liberia to work and build more constituencies leading to the 2023 presidential and legislative elections.
