The Liberia Transformation Party (LTP) has distanced itself from the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by five political parties to support the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) in the pending 2023 presidential and legislative elections in Liberia.
“We, the members of the Executive Committee of the LTP, want to take this time to address the news circulating around social media and a number of media houses that LTP, together with five other political parties, signed a MOU with the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) that will lead to collaboration ahead of 2023 elections.
“We distance our party, LTP, from this MOU. As the Executive Committee of the LTP and the highest decision-making body of the party, without prejudice, we do hereby unequivocally and categorically condemn the action of the Acting Party Chairman, Patrick Saydee, as such action does not represent the true attributes of the LTP and, as consequence, he is hereby suspended from his position as Acting Chairman of the party with immediate effect,” the release noted.
According to a press release issued in Monrovia on Monday, April 4, 2022, upon receiving the news of LTP signing on to a MOU with other political parties to support CDC come 2023 on March 30, 2022, the National Executive Committee members of the LTP convened a meeting with the acting chairman to ascertain as to whether he was in the know of the MOU with the CDC. The meeting, according to the release, established that Acting Chairman Saydee entered into the agreement without the consent of the Executive Committee members and the Political Leader, Rev. Kennedy Sandy.
The decision to suspend the Acting Chairman came as a result of an investigation that was conducted following the meeting that the Acting Chairman admitted to entering into a MOU with CDC without consulting members of the Executive Committee and the Political Leader.
The release however noted that the LTP Political Leader, Rev. Sandy, will shortly address the media on the act committed by the suspended party chairman.