Rallies Citizens’ Support For Weah’s Re-election
PHOTO: Sen. Emmanuel Nuquay
By Moses M. Tokpah, mosesmtokpah@gmail.com
Since his declaration of intent to contest the senatorial seat of Margibi County, Liberia’s former Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel F. McGill has been hit with serious resistance from Margibi’s Senator James Emmanuel Nuquay.
McGill and few other CDC government officials have been placed under sanctions by the United States government for “public corruption” but no charges have been brought against them in Liberian courts.
Everywhere Sen. Nuquay mounts the podium to speak to the people of Margibi County he asks the citizens to vote against the former minister on grounds that he is being sanctioned by the American Government and secondly, he is a stranger from the Belle Forest in Gbarpolu County.
But on the contrary, some Margibians and supporters of McGill have the believe that Sen. Nuquay does not want competition in the county and that’s why he is seriously going against the election of the former minister.
Most of them who have participated on radio talk-shows in the county as well as in the street corners of the county have blended the senator as someone who has portrayed himself as the biggest politician and the only influential person in the county, and as such he does not want for another influential person such as former Minister McGill to be in leadership position in Margibi.
According to them, Hon. Nuquay has the fear that if Hon. McGill is elected Senator of the county with his closeness to President Weah, he (Nuquay) will not have relevant or prestige in Margibi any longer.
But their assertions seem to be like wasting gas on fire as Sen. Nuquay has further intensified his campaign against the former minister of state for presidential affairs.
Hon. Nuquay speaking on the theme “using your current leadership opportunity as a steppingstone for future leadership opportunity,” when he served as guest speaker at program marking the induction ceremony of the Dinnita Clan Youth Leadership held at the Yarnwullie Town Hall in District #5, Margibi County over the weekend reiterated call for Margibians to reject McGill for being sanctioned by the American Government over corruption allegations and for not being a son of the county.
He asked the citizens: “Do you want any of your children to be sanctioned by the American Government, do you want to stand with a sanctioned man, do you want bad luck to follow your children tomorrow?”
Sen. Nuquay stated that former Minister McGill who was given an opportunity by the president to serve in the government and ended up with a disgrace is not fit to ask the people of the county to make him their senator.
The Margibi Lawmaker said the representative and senatorial jobs in Margibi are for those of them who live in the county stating that every county has two senatorial seats and as such, nobody should leave their county and go to Margibi requesting the citizens to give them their owner job.
According to Sen. Nuquay, every county supposed to have two senatorial seats and if Margibians take one of the two senatorial seats in the county and give it to the man who he said came from Gbarpolu, it means Gbarpolu will have three senatorial seats and Margibi will have only one senator noting that he alone cannot do the senatorial job in the county.
Additionally, the Senator disclosed that if Hon. McGill is elected in the county, the citizens will be putting out for sale superintendent job because the man in question has said to the people of the county that Margibi is the land of immigrant.
He said when the citizens vote for the former minister it means that they are all strangers and all other jobs will be for everyone as someone will be taken from Grand Gedeh and be made superintendent just as it was with Amos Boye years ago.
The Margibi County lawmaker furthered that McGill who has being sanctioned cannot be trusted with the senatorial position in the county because he failed himself, failed the president, failed the people of Gbarpolu, and the country as a whole.
He continued that the Margibi senatorial candidate has done a bad job, adding, ‘for you to work and for the American to sanction you, he has done the bad job and he cannot be our senator’.
“So again, everything you do on earth in this world has a reward, every opportunity you get see it as a stepping stone for a bigger opportunity; and let us know that we cannot curse our children, we can’t deny our children opportunity, we can’t deny ourselves opportunity let us protect our county and let us protect the future of our children,” he told the gathering.
He called on the citizens to make the right decision by looking under their feet to take one of their children to provide leadership for them as they are not short of children or manpower or educated people to be borrowing senator from different county something he termed as disrespect or insult.
The Senator informed the citizens that if they borrow a senator they will not guarantee the future of the young people and even their own future because according to him, once a stranger is placed in leadership he or she will never allow the citizens’ children to rise to prominence on grounds that they will suppress them and because such leader will want to keep them suppress, he or she will rule them.
Meanwhile, Senator Nuquay has clarified that the American Government did not deny him visa as was reported in the public indicating that the American Government gave him visa for one year that anytime he wants to travel to America he can travel.
He further clarified that his wife was also issued a one-year visa and she will be traveling to the States in August adding, ‘so any time I want to travel, my wife wants to travel she can travel and myself can travel anytime.
The Senator said after eighteen years of service he can go to the American Embassy and be given visa, but Hon. McGill just after five years of service when he is told about the road to the American Embassy, he will tell the individual who will say that to him not to make snake to bite him (McGill) and he will think that it is black snake.
In another development, with barely two months to the conducted of the 2023 presidential and legislative elections, Senator James Emmanuel Nuquay is rallying the support of the citizens of the county for the re-election bid of President George Manneh Weah.
Sen. Nuquay in Yarnwullie Town in District #5, Margibi County over the weekend told the citizens that the Liberian leader deserves a second term mandate because of the work he has done in the country for the last five and a half year.
He indicated that President Weah has had the opportunity to serve for almost six years and that he is asking the people of Liberia for a second term mandate.
The Margibi Senator said it is based on the work the president has done he (Nuquay) is now joining many others by adding his voice to their voices to say President Weah should be given a second term mandate.
Senator Nuquay narrated that the president has kept the country peaceful, provided opportunity for the young people of Liberia and increased the revenue of the country adding, ‘that’s why he is asking for a second term mandate’.
If the president has declared war in Ivory Coast, Guinea and Sierra Leone with bullet flying everywhere, the citizens will not accept his call for a second term mandate, Sen. Nuquay said.
“And that’s why I’m adding my voice to the many voices to say let’s give him a second term mandate, so the song sang by Miatta is indeed meaningful; every job you do, every work you do has a reward and that’s why every opportunity you get in life use it as a steppingstone for future opportunities” he stated.
He then re-emphasized that President Weah has worked for the six-years and he is seeking a second term mandate something the Senator said he is quite sure that the President will get the reward by getting a second term.