PHOTO: Some of the UP members to crossed carpet to the ruling CDC
At least 14 members of the former ruling Unity Party this week joined the Coalition for Democratic Change, vowing to support the second term presidential bid of George Weah Weah come 2023, when Liberians will again be going to the polls to elect new legislators and a president.
The man, who headed the Special Operation Unit of Chairman of the Special Operation Unit for the Election of Ambassador Joseph Boakai in 2017 as President during the 2017, said they have come as prodigal children of the CDC.
P. Manus Niah added that their endorsement of President Weah’s second term bid is an appreciation of the many infrastructural developments the President has been carrying out around the country.
Mr. Niah, who departed the CDC since 2017, pointed out that they are back to ensure the re-election of President Weah because of his many good works including the building of market structures and housing units for low income earners .
“Where in the world that a president who is undertaking massive development will serve one term?” he rhetorically asked, saying that’s impossible especially in West Africa.”
The former UP stalwart, Niah said he parted ways with the CDC since April 2017 in search of moral leadership, but at the end of the day, they were disappointed in the opposition community.
“We cannot continue to wallop in a world full of disappointments, seeing people calling for sanction on the country in efforts to constrain President Weah and bring hardship on the Liberian people. Is that the work of opposition to go about campaigning for sanction against the people you wants to lead? I will do more expansion on what I have observed in the opposition community, Niah assured.
He said stifling the regime and refusing to support it was never the way to go about as patriotic Liberians. He used the occasion to lash at the opposition, accusing them of campaigning against the interest of ordinary Liberians.
“As patriots, we cannot continue to work with people whose sole objective is to take power at the detriment of the common people., Niah said, as he thanked CDC Youth League Chairman and City Mayor Jefferson Koijee, for his persistence in persuading him and his followers to come back that to the party.
“Now I am home to the party I really belong and I am home for good,” Mr. Niah said amidst cheers from the audience.
He said regardless of all of the internal wrangling that prompted his departure, they were back for the good of the party.
“Let me be practical here, I am a general in the political paradigm and I do not come alone,” Mr. Niah noted as he was pointing his hand sitting at the program
Mr. Niah , who was accompanied by his co-chairman, Byhewite Dukuly and over two dozens of women from the Omega Market, said he brought them from the old Gobachev Market to also thank the government .
According to him, the women accompanied him purposely to expressed their appreciation and to give their support to the president for his efforts in cleaning the Gobachev area and opening the new market facility for them.
Speaking earlier, the former co chairman of the special operation for the election of Ambassador Joseph Boakai in 2017, Byhewite Dukuly, maintained that they could not sit on the fence and watch President George Weah and the CDC in the development drive which they have exhibited over past three years in the country, but to join the process. Report by Augustine Octavius, augustineoctavius@gmail.com