By James Chester Flahn (Nimba County, Liberia)
I swear to Yaaweh, I don’t want to waste my good, good time replying to one Manipakei Dumoe who went the other day on social media to justify his little chopping by denigrating Ambassador Joe Boakai in favor of his newfound eating spot, Alexander Cummings, political leader of the Alternative National Congress and one of the architects of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP).
But the audacity of Dumoe compels some of us to respond. Dumoe, let me ask this simple question. What makes you so brave to dismiss a political Maradona like Joseph Boakai, just to promote someone who could not even help his candidate win a senatorial seat in his own county, Maryland during the 2020 midterm senatorial elections?
Dumoe, you had the temerity to infer that, among the 20 presidential candidates that ran in 2017, Ambaasador Boakai came second to George Weah only because of his proximity to power as Vice President. You also implied that Boakai lost the elections even though he got endorsements from plenty legislators.
Dumoe, weren’t you in Liberia when Joe Boakai’s own boss, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, openly endorsed Weah as she carried him along with her to dedicate all new projects? Oh! So it is now, because of the little thing that Alex Cummings is giving you, you juked chewing gums in your eyeballs pretending to be blind! Wonders shall never cease.
Joe Boakai went into the 2017 presidential elections not with any added advantage, but from the position of an underdog. You were one of those who sat on Hot FM insulting former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf day in and day out for her administration’s alleged bad governance. People said that Hot FM owner DJ Blue kicked you out because of the irresponsible manner in which you handled your assigned talk show that you turned into a Rally Time Market banjoo selling point.
Dumoe, you and I know for free that Joe Boakai and his Unity Party entered that election with their hands tied behind their backs, unlike Cummings and many other presidential hopefuls who were not encumbered with the real and purported excesses of the Ellen regime.
Truth be told, some of us know many of the behind-the-scene happenings that got Weah elected in 2017. We know how Ellen leveraged the presidency in favor of Weah to arm twist the bulk of her cabinets from supporting Boakai. Dumoe, you are fully aware of what happened, but because of bread and butter issues, you have sold your soul to the highest bidder, in this case Mr. Alexander Cummings.
But get this in your head: Joe Boakai doesn’t have a single cent to offer you to join any bandwagon in his behalf. Boakai has sufficient morale (far unlike the “GI morale” employed by Major Ghankay Taylor and his dastardly band of freedom killers) to flog Weah. JNB’s fight is not against Cummings or any member of the CPP. His struggle is to unseat this thieving regime, of course, with the full backing of the CPP.
Alexander Cummings is part and parcel of the CPP. Some of us expect him, at this important juncture in Liberia’s postwar democratic history, that he would join hands with his colleagues and fight with every fabric of his being to kick out this rouge regime from power.
In any case, your joining the fray to failingly ridicule the most votable leader of the Collaboration only strengthens the widespread belief that there is something seriously flawed with your sense of reasoning.
Can you imagine, you ran your entire campaign in Bong County, during the just-ended senatorial elections, by crying for the release of jailed Liberian warlord and former President Charles Ghankay Taylor, so he can come back and complete his NPFL agenda that was short circuited through the intervention of our regional body ECOWAS and the United Nations.
If Cummings, because of apparent power greed, would endear himself to you, to damage the CPP chances of unseating this irresponsible government, whose leader, like Nero, repines in a state of denial, intoxicated by the excesses of power while Liberia burns, surely speaks volumes to his leadership style.
But I hope Cummings will see through your ruse and decipher for himself who you really are – nothing but a mendacious youth clinging onto anything to gain political and material relevance.
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