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MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Opposition politician Abraham Darius Dillon has sharply disagreed with Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson (PYJ) over his reported proposal for a constitutional amendment for the sole purpose of enthroning retired footballer George Weah as Liberia’s president as long as he has breath in him.
The FrontPageAfrica newspaper quoting a very reliable source, has reported that PYJ has reportedly proposed a constitutional amendment to give President Weah a lifetime presidency.
The Nimba County senator and former warlord of the defunct Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), modeled after PYJ’s former ally, dreaded ex-warlord and former President Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), according to FrontPageAfrica, is alleged to have made the suggestion during a recent called meeting between senators and President Weah.
But the vice chair for political affairs of the opposition Liberty Party (LP), Abraham Darius Dillon, thinks differently, and has differed with the former warlord turned senator.
Dillon says as a strong believer, lover and protector of democracy, and while he sees the assertions to make Weah a lifetime president attributed to PYJ as the exercise of the senator’s right of free expression and the exercise thereof in a constitutional democracy like Liberia, he totally disagrees with such proposal.
“Let me hasten to emphatically state that I disagree with the alleged proposal to make George Weah or any other person “President for Life,” Dillon wrote on his official Facebook page minutes after news broke that Senator Johnson had reportedly proposed the enthronement of Weah as president for life.
Dillon made it clear that in the event such proposal ever made its way to a national referendum, he would vote a resounding no against its passage into law.
“I will vote NO should it ever be brought up for our consideration in a referendum. I would rather join Sen. Johnson and all well-meaning Liberians to propose and vote YES in favor of reduction in the tenure of President from 6 to 4 years, Senators from 9 to 6 years and Representatives from 6 to 4 years for effectiveness and productivity,” Dillon further wrote.
He continued: “Thankfully, a constitutional referendum is left to the will of the absolute majority of registered voters that turn out to vote on any amendment preposition, and not left to one or few Lawmakers. Yes! “All power is inherent in the people”; and we are the people!!!”
