IPNEWS-Monrovia: As the race to the 2023 presidential race heats up, the standard bearer of the main opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) and the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), Alexander Benedict Cummings (ABC) continues to attract more rural women, who are of the belief that the CPP is the only road map to reclaiming the country from the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and make it to work again for the Liberian people.
Hundreds of rural women, on Wednesday, October 5, held an acquaintance meeting and interactions with the Standard Bearer of the CPP Mr. Cummings in Forzohn Town, Margibi County.
The women, predominantly market women are one of the four branches of the Successful Women Organization of Liberia (SWOL), spread out in Montserrado, Margibi, Bong and Grand Bassa Counties.
The women’s spokesperson Rebecca Johnson bewailed the huge challenges facing rural women including lack of health care, markets, schools, deplorable roads, and the harsh economic situation, they have to endure for survival.
Forzohn Town linked six villages, with an estimated population of 2,000 eligible voters, most of whom are engaged in farming and burning coal to earn a living and support their families.
The women, spoke of years of neglect by the Liberian government and pleaded with the CPP Standard Bearer for help, as they join and mobilize support for his Presidential bid in the 2023 general and presidential elections next October.
Responding, CPP Standard Bearer, Mr. Cummings expressed gratitude to the women for the invitation extended him to meet and interact with the Forzohn Town, Margibi County branch of the Successful Women Organization of Liberia.
Referring to women of Liberia, as the foundation and backbone of the nation, Mr. Cummings said women deserved access to the basic essential social services including good health care service, good schools for their children as well as access to opportunities that will help them live better and healthier.
He assured women of Liberia, that a CPP Government will guarantee women access to opportunities, accord them equal rights and privileges, as well as protection against rape and gender-based violence.
The Collaborating Political Parties is a conglomeration of the Alternative National Congress, the Liberty Party, Political leaders, and breakaway partisans of several other political parties including the Unity Party, the All-Liberian Party, the National Patriotic Party and the People’s Liberation Party joining ranks to make Mr. George Weah one-term President.
President Weah’s five years administration is adjudged to be increasingly becoming unbearable, due to lack of leadership, massive corruption, and extreme suffering and poverty.
Few months ago, the CPP standard bearer was invited by urban women groups in Montserrado to pledge their support to his presidency, because according them, he is not a politician of the old order who wants to do the same things and expect to get different results. The woman in Mount Barclay and King Gray in Montserrado County as well as in Duazon in lower Margibi County have all pledged to support the CPP in the pending 2023 elections. Courtesy: The New Dawn
