LIBERIA 🇱🇷 :THERE WILL BE NO FINAL LISTING FROM NEC PUBLISHED FOR THE LOFA COUNTY BY-ELECTION THAT

Former VP Joseph N. Boikai

Monrovia: The political leader of the former ruling Unity Party said there will be no final listing from the Elections Commission published for the Lofa County by-election senatorial Race that will not have the name of the Unity Party Candidate, and thus I must repeat that we expect the NEC to do the right thing.

Speaking at a press in Monrovia, the former Liberian Vice President said the National Election Commission was set up to do the right thing and to avoid election chaos at all times.

He than stressed that any attempt by NEC to exclude the Unity Party from what he called” its legitimate and constitutional rights to contest as a registered political party, once the ruling party of Liberia”, will be a direct infringement of the political participation of hundreds of thousands of Liberian voters who will be disenfranchised, gullible, and subsequently exposed to matters that could have national security concerns. JNB Press Statement – NEC Hearings on Lofa Election 2022

“Let me emphasize again that the Unity Party and people of Lofa have had enough, and will NOT continue to accept being insulted, disrespected, and disenfranchised by the Weah government. Make no mistake that our position taken in the disenfranchisement of Lofa citizens in the case of Senator-elect Brownie Samukai, was not from a position of weakness” he noted.

He stated that recently the NEC released the Lofa County senatorial by-election Race Provisional List. Noting that the Unity Party, take notice with very serious concern that the name of its candidate, Mr. Galakpai W. Kortimai, is not amongst those being cleared as one of the Provisional Aspirants even though he has met all the requirements provided under our election’s laws and our Constitution.

According to him they(Unity Party) take serious note of the reason given by the NEC and they are therefore following very keenly and critically the activities of the ongoing hearings at the NEC Headquarters.

He also mentioned that they are aware of the undertones of the hearings which smelled of a sinister attempt to deprive the Unity Party of fielding their senatorial candidate in Lofa for 2022 by-election and presidential and other candidates in the 2023 elections.

He further they(Unity Party) are also concerned that any delay in giving the Unity Party’s candidate his full clearance is a deliberate plan to delay his campaign and give the others due advantage.

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