The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has threatened to call on the people to cease from “tolerating” Joseph N. Boakai as President of the Republic, a decision it says it will communicate to the African Union (AU), United Nation (UN) ECOWAS, US Embassy, etc.
In this effort, the CDC has called for an emergency National Executive Committee meeting, along with party stakeholders, to be held at the party’s headquarters, and presided over by the party’s National Chairman, Janga Augustus Kowo.
The CDC appears jittered with the decision of the Executive to openly show its face in the fight against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa, and the gang-up by the Liberian Senate, which is headed by a member of the UP Alliance.
Speaker Koffa has been embattled for several weeks, leading to court actions, police invasion of the Capitol and alleged threats on his life.
It was reported that President Boakai recently called him to a meeting to request that he officially resigns and give Representative Richard Koon the opportunity to lead the first branch of government.
The CDC said it categorically stands with the ruling of the Supreme Court and recognizes Koffa as the duly elected Speaker of the country. “Agenda of the meeting will be to address the current anarchy that Mr. Boakai’s leadership has plunged the country into,” CDC Secretary General, Jefferson Tamba Koijee, alleged.
Following the meeting, Secretary Koijee said, the CDC will reach a determination to call on the people to cease from “tolerating” Boakai as President of the country—a decision that he said will be communicated to their international partners.
Koijee used the medium to call on CDCians to get prepared to celebrate a national mournful Christmas.
Koijee’s statement comes at a time when the House of Representatives is engulfed in a leadership crisis, health workers threatening protest over salary discrepancy, AFL widows still requesting their benefits, and civil servants massively being dismissed without any just cause.
His statement could scare away individuals intending to come to Liberia to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays, and as well create a fearful atmosphere that could be marred by protests and demonstrations.
It can be recalled that Representative Marvin Cole, a member of the National Patriotic Party (NPP), threatened that, if the Boakai administration wants war, they will give them war, reminding the administration that he is from a party that cannot be threatened by violence and war, because they have seen and tasted them.
With all these threats coming out only because of the removal of Speaker Koffa, the Boakai administration’s first Christmas season may turn sour if not handled properly.