{"id":13528,"date":"2022-04-14T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/up-lawmaker-threatens-nec-there-will-be-no-by-election-in-lofa"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:59:24","slug":"up-lawmaker-threatens-nec-there-will-be-no-by-election-in-lofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/up-lawmaker-threatens-nec-there-will-be-no-by-election-in-lofa","title":{"rendered":"UP lawmaker threatens NEC: There will be no by-election in Lofa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>By Lincoln G. Peters<\/p>\n

Opposition Unity Party (UP) Representative for Lofa County Electoral District #3 Clarence Massaquoi has warned the National Elections Commission (NEC) that there will be no bye-election conducted in the county if the NEC does not rethink its decision to include the candidate listing UP\u2019s senatorial hopeful, Galakpai W. Kortima.<\/p>\n

Unity Party and a faction of the opposition Liberty Party chaired by Mr. Musa Bility and the Alternative National Congress under the CPP banner are before the NEC on account of CPP\u2019s request for the electoral House to forbid the UP and the All Liberian Party (ALP) to register candidates in their own names for the Lofa bye-election.<\/p>\n

The Bility LP faction and the ANC believe that a clause within the controversial framework document of the crumbled Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) would disqualify UP and ALP from fielding candidates in the Lofa by-election after withdrawing their memberships from the opposition bloc.<\/p>\n

But UP insists that it is not a signatory to the controversial CPP framework document submitted to the Elections Commission by embattled Bility and the ANC.<\/p>\n

ANC political leader Mr. Alexander B. Cummings is currently facing criminal trial after being accused by ALP political leader Benoni Urey of allegedly tampering with the CPP framework document and illegally attaching his (Urey\u2019s) signature to a photocopy version.<\/p>\n

Cummings has always denied any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Representative Massaquoi warned that they will use every means legal, permitted and allowed under Liberia\u2019s democratic process to stop the by-election in Lofa County.<\/p>\n

He stated that the NEC\u2019s action against UP will be resisted by all the energies they have because they have taken enough from the commission.<\/p>\n

The National Elections Commission has released the provisional list of aspirants to participate in the upcoming Lofa Bye-election. The list excludes Unity Party\u2019s candidate Galakpai W. Kortima.<\/p>\n

The NEC has named Momo Cyrus, Mariamu Beyan Fofana, Kpator Joseph Jallah, Sumo G. Kupee and George Beyan Samah as potential aspirants for the Lofa Bye-election.<\/p>\n

But the opposition lawmaker Mr. Massaquoi told journalists after a hearing of the ongoing election case at the NEC headquarters in Sinkor Wednesday, 13 April 2022 that they have gone out of patience and they will make sure that there will be no election in Lofa if the NEC excludes UP\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n

He said even though they cannot tell the ruling party\u2019s involvement in the matter, the Unity Party will not sit back and watch anybody thwart the peace of this country.<\/p>\n

Representative Massaquoi said the country\u2019s democracy and fragile peace are under serious attack by people who he claimed are undemocratic.<\/p>\n

Representative Massaquoi further indicated that people want to use the country\u2019s already weak system at the National Elections Commission which is allegedly occupied by partisan commissioners.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo contest in [an] election is a constitutional right. Only the court can deny or guarantee that right. But in this case, while the case is still ongoing the NEC has posted provisional listings that essentially deny the UP and its candidate,\u201d Representative Massaquoi<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me send these words fourth, and I want our international partners to hear this, that our democracy is under attack and the UP will not take it lightly,\u2019\u2019 Representative Massaquoi warned.<\/p>\n

Rep. Massaquoi said by denying UP\u2019s candidate, the NEC has bitten more than it can swallow because the UP will make sure that the bye-election is not conducted in Lofa County.<\/p>\n

He continued that the NEC and every other member of the CPP are aware of UP\u2019s withdrawal from the CPP, and therefore, the party cannot be held for a clause in the document that was allegedly altered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not sign \u2026 any document that talks about denying us. Article 8 they are talking about and raising is what we are against because we did not sign \u2026 anything,\u201d said Massaquoi.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, it cannot hold us. We have taken enough and any attempt we will resist. This is how elections [are] rigged and we will not sit for that to happen to us,\u2019\u2019 he concluded.<\/p>\n

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