PHOTO: President Weah in Monrovia with Rep. Fallah’s campaign poster
By Our Staff Writer
President George Weah, who is Standard Bearer of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) government has admitted that there is a groundswell of dissent in the country over the performance of his nearly 3-year-old regime.
President Weah was speaking during a big CDC rally to officially launch the campaign on the party’s candidate in the December 8 Special Senatorial election in Montserrado County Representative Thomas Fallah at the SKD Sports Complex in Paynesville outside Monrovia on Saturday, November 21, 2020.
Acknowledging that the growing disenchantment of many citizens in Monteserrado led to the CDC’s massive defeat last year (2019) in the Senatorial By-election by Senator Darius Dillon, the CDC Standard Bearer pleaded with Liberians to be patient with his government, as it strives to improve the country.
And the Weah government has also been bedeviled by a wave of controversies ranging from mounting allegations of corruption, state security brutality and mysterious deaths of three auditors and a female officials of state integrity institutions in a space of just 8 days recently.
“Do not take decision when you are angry but think about your mission and ensure that Montserrado be recaptured by you. We want to welcome all of our partisans and friends that went to see elsewhere, but we like to say there is nowhere like home,” President Weah said.
President Weah, who didn’t bothered with the thousands of CDC supporters cramping together without nosemask or respect the Coronavirus protocols both en route to and at the stadium, gave himself and his government a pat on the back for bringing development to Liberia.
The financial and economic situation in the country is currently in a poor state, with high inflation, high unemployment as the value of the Liberian dollar falling rapidly and one of the most difficult liquidity situation with the shortage of LD in the commercial bank fueled by confidence crisis in the banking system
In the wake of the current economic hardship, President Weah has therefore not only made a clarion call on the people of Montserrado County on behalf of the CDC candidate, but to his own party which appears to be saddled with serious internal rift:
“Fellow partisans, we all know that we have an overwhelming mandate to lead the party to victory come December 8, 2020. We are the ruling party of the Republic of Liberia; therefore, we have gathered here to rally an onward support for Thomas P. Fallah to win Montserrado County Senatorial Seat,” President Weah told CDC supporters and partisans.
For his part, the CDC Senatorial candidate Rep. Fallah said:
“I have kept my vow that I will not let you down and the people of CDC down. It’s because of the development we have been elected three times in this hot political county of Montserrado. I am the first individual that has broken that record of being elected three times,” Fallah said.
The ruling CDC, which Standard Bearer President Weah had described himself “feminist-in-chief”, is not fielding a single female candidate in both the Special Senatorial election and the two By-elections in Montserrado district #9 and Sinoe district #2.
All 15 Senatorial candidates are male, with many of them being incumbent members of the House of Representatives.
The CDC’s only emerging Senatorial aspirant, Mrs. Jamaima Wolokolie was said to have been bullied out of contention and expelled from the ruling party.
But Fallah showered praises on the CDC Standard Bearer during last Saturday’s political rally.
”I say this time without a number my sincere gratitude to His Excellency, President George Manneh Weah for giving me (a plank seller), the opportunity back in 2005 to serve. Since then, I have served my party with all my being and today this plank seller has set for himself, the CDC, the people of district No. 5, as Representative in this highly energized Montserrado County,” said Rep. Fallah.