By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
KAKATA, Liberia- If information filtering in public circles in Margibi County anything to go by, the hope of former House Speaker Emmanuel Nuquaye is being dashed.
As a CDC supporter, Mr. Nuquaye has reportedly been bagging to be considered in his bid for the senatorial post of seems to have been dashed, with indications that Rep. Jones is the coalition’s choice in the midterm election is Rep. Jones.
Sources confided in www.newspublictrust.com that a series of meetings held between Nuquay and the local CDC authorities failed to make the Civil Aviation Authority’s boss break his way through.
The Chairman of the County Chapter of the CDC J. Francis Karpu, Sr. recently a photo of himself on facebook flanked by Rep. Jones with Karpu welcoming the lawmaker saying their lawmakers are increasing.
“Welcome to Liberia’s biggest Political Party, (CDC) the process started long ago. Mission accomplished, from Independent Lawmaker to a CDC Lawmaker; our Party remain supreme, our Lawmakers are increasing,” he said.
Rep. Jones contested as an independent candidate in the 2017 general and presidential elections defeating former Representative Ballah G. Zayzay of the former ruling Unity Party.
Pundits see a CDC support to Jones as a direct blow to Nuquay’s senatorial bid at this year’s polls slated for December.
Jones and the CDC are said to have also held series of meetings during which he was entreated to join the entreating the party because he upholds its manifesto.
Our sources said executives of the Party started negotiating with the Lawmaker in 2017 to join the CDC but it did not materialize until this 2020.
Though the outcome of those meetings are yet to be made public, the most recent one was held within the YMCA premises in Kakata.
Mr. Jones’ offices recently partnered with the Nathaniel McGill Humanitarian Foundation to donate food and non-food items to disaster victims in District #5. The Foundation is owned and operated by a stalwart of the Party and the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs.
Prior to that, President George Manneh Weah honored an invitation from the Lawmaker to visit the site of a footpath bridge in Unification Town District #2 where he he committed himself to pay US$45,000 towards the completion of the project.
Rep. Jones won the seat of District Two as an independent candidate in the 2017 general and presidential elections, defeating then incumbent Ballah G. Zayzay of the former ruling Unity Party.