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Nyonblee suffers setback

-Bility’s LP faction to host another convention

By Lincoln G. Peters

Opposition Liberty Party (LP) political leader Sen. Nyonblee Karnga – Lawrence seems to suffer a setback in the party’s ongoing internal crisis, as controversial LP chair Musa Bility’s faction announces a planned national convention due 2022 in Bentol to elect the party’s new political leader.

Bility and Karnga – Lawrence have fallen apart, and both party executives have announced the suspension of the other from the Liberty Party.

Sen. Karnga -Lawrence recently announced a new LP chair, Sen. Steve Zargo, but the National Elections Commission (NEC) says it recognizes the party’s constitution that brought Mr. Bility to power as LP chair.

With these unsettled matters within LP, a planned Bentol convention in Montserrado as announced by the Bility faction could suggest that the opposition party’s crisis is far from over.

LP is a constituent party of the opposition bloc Collaborating Political Party (CPP) which seeks the presidency at the pools in 2023.

Liberty Party Secretary-General Martin Kollah said Monday, 20 December 2021 on local broadcaster OK FM that the party will be going for its next national convention in 2022 in Bentol to elect a new political leader that will steer the affairs of the party.

According to him, Karnga – Lawrence’s tenure expires in October next year, and the constitution provides that a convention be held to have a political leader.

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“When we are going to elections we can elect our standard-bearer … The standard-bearer will serve for one year up to the next election,” Mr. Kollah said.

“This is a fact that Senator Kangar-Lawrence was not elected for the position after the death of Cllr. [Charles] Brumskin, rather, she inherited the position and we consider it,” he added.

He explained that LP is not putting forth a presidential candidate for the next election, but it is working according to its constitution to make sure the right things are done.

According to Mr. Kollah, LP’s decision is in keeping with the three-count resolution signed and endorsed by delegates that attended the just-ended national convention in Ganta, Nimba County.

He said that the convention endorsed the Alternative National Congress standard-bearer, Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, as LP’s candidate for the CPP presidential ticket for 2023.

“We remain legitimate officials of the party, recognized by NEC and the political leader can do nothing about it. If Madam Kangar-Lawrence will have her own independent Liberty Party, I have nothing to do with it but she will have to register it to be recognized by NEC,” Mr. Kollah indicated.–Edited by Winston W. Parley

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