LIBERIAN POLITICS HAS come face to face with the political philosophy of the politically promising and potential People’s Liberation Party (PLP). Leaders of the PLP have emphasized that the opposition environment is not a waiting room for corrupt individuals to regroup or conspire to unseat another group. According to them, there is no evidence in history that consummate tribalists and conventional politicians who reject truth and do not promote integrity but fear those who stand up against dishonesty within their own organizations have the spine to lead transformation in any society. The PLP political thought further argues that integrity does not change its character or nature, no matter what. “While it exposes the ills and evils done by others, it distances itself from that which is committed under its nose,” PLP leaders observe.
THE PLP LEADERS also argued that no political party, alliance or coalition, however good the intentions may be, can present itself as a viable alternative if it fails and/or refuses to hold its own members and leaders accountable for their evil deeds and conduct.
WITH ITS PHILOSOPHICAL definition, the People’s Liberation Party (PLP) has confined itself in a position, not aligning or sympathizing with the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change’s style of governance and neither holding a positive view that anything good could ever come from the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP)—projecting itself as an alternative for the electorate, who do not see the CDC and the CPP worthy of their political support come 2023.
THE PLP’S STYLE of politicking—humanitarian politics—was firstly considered the traditional way politicians trick the electorate into seeing them as good people to be entrusted with power; however, the PLP scenario appears to be arguably genuine, with a set standard of taking development and aid to the downtrodden and less fortunate at any point in time, and not awaiting electioneering year for political fame and aggrandizement.
THOUGH LESS THAN a year old, the PLP has maneuvered to have its name stuck on the tongue of the people of Montserrado and Margibi counties with a number of interventions and quick-impact projects, and recently introduced what it termed as “Liberation Transport”, with buses commuting passengers between Redlight and Broad Street for L$20 (twenty Liberian dollars)—a distance normally charged L$50 by buses and L$180 by taxi cabs.
FURTHER CONCRETIZATION OF its humanitarian politicking, over the weekend the PLP promoted 78 (seventy-eight) members of the party to the position of Liberators, and inducted Bernard Benson, alias DJ Blue, as the party’s Vice Chairman for Mobilization and Recruitment.