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Written by Our Senior Staff
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Tuesday, 22 May 2012 00:53 |
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“This is a messy wahala tracing the CDC as its critics usually think the party has an organizational problem.”
The opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) appears to be getting disturbing features even while it still licks its 2011 defeat wound amidst grave disappointment following the formation of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s new government which was expected to include more opposition politicians including those from CDC.
The rocky road passed since January this year when President Sirleaf and her influential confidants curbed threats of public disorder rumored to mark the inauguration of the ruling Unity Party’s second administration at the time CDC kept planning a demonstration to undermine the ceremony after its boycotted the November 8th presidential runoff in 2011.
“ CDC is becoming a bad political child among political parties in Liberia. Imaging some of the utterances coming from the mouths of partisans of the party on radio against each other,” a commuter listening to Fabric talk show yesterday morning when CDCians were at each other’s throats noted.
The opposing utterances were said to have come about when the Chief of Office Staff of the embattled Chairperson, Montserrado County Junior Senator, Geraldine Doe- Sheriff, McCauley Weleh, went to Fabric to defend Senator Doe-Sherif as chairperson of the CDC.
Mr. Weleh’s presence on the talk show sparked angry reactions from callers claiming to be CDCians who alleging that the Chief of Office Staff was a “boyfriend” of the Honorable Junior Senator thereby leaving the debate about her being the legitimate chairperson of the party to attacking her personality.
Weleh said that he would argue with CDC Secretary-General Acarious Gray to defend Senator Doe-Sherif when he (Weleh) vowed to pay the air time, but Representative Gray counter-argued that he would pay for the air time for Senator Doe-Sherif to appear in person for the argument rather than her proxy.
“ This is a messy wahala tracing the CDC as its critics usually think the party has an organizational problem,” a constant listener of Fabric morning talk show commented. Minutes after yesterday’s talk show the listener called In Profile Daily commenting on the utterances from those claiming to be CDC partisans; on the character of the Montserrado Junior Senator.
The listener continued: “Even if there are differences among partisans of the CDC, they should not cause people to defame each other in the public”.
Yesterday’s development has come amidst CDC’s threats of street protests against “nepotism” in the current government.
CDC’s Spokesperson George Solo has been quoted as indicating that the protests are aimed at denouncing nepotism in the governance of Liberia’s oil sector including other problems associated with it.
Mr. Solo made specific reference to the appointment of President Sirleaf’s son, Robert Sirleaf, as Board Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) which he described as “nepotism”.
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