Monrovia – “My fellow Liberians, remember this day, Saturday, October 7, because today, we are taking our country back from the corrupt politicians who have failed our country for the last 170 years.”
We are returning the country to its rightful owners, the people of Liberia. We are sounding a rallying call to action to put Liberia first.
We are delivering change but more important, we are delivering the change you can trust.
We are doing the impossible, we are moving past the traditional politicians who thought they could buy and intimidate their way to the presidency.
But they failed to see, my fellow Liberians, that we are not for sale. Our country is not for sale. Our future is not for sale.
We are close to the finish line but we are not there yet.
We have to get out and vote on Tuesday for the Alternative National Congress.
We have to demand a better Liberia. We must build upon our foundation of peace. If we don’t do it now, our country will never change.
The choice is yours. It is up to you.
I have been blessed in my life. I grew up in Point Four, Bushrod Island. I learned the value of hard work and dedication early on.
I started small small and became one of the top executives at Coca-Cola.
I ran complex organizations holding people accountable and consistently delivering results.
I got there by working hard, making the right choices, smart decisions, and never letting anyone tell me I can’t do it.
My fellow Liberians, I have traveled to every corner of the country.
The first and only candidate to visit every district, and I, have heard you!
You want to work. You want jobs. You want your children to learn at school with free primary education, to have access to healthcare, good roads, water and electricity.
I have heard you. And I was listening even before starting this campaign.
My family foundation has invested over 1 million U.S. dollars in Liberia, building schools, giving scholarships, renovating clinics and giving women micro-credit loans.
But I know that that is not enough to transform Liberia for all four million of our citizens.
Indeed, I have been blessed with great opportunities and I want to make that a possibility for every Liberian.
I want to give every Liberian child the same opportunity I enjoyed. It’s not good enough for me to have my stomach full and everyone else around me is hungry.
I have a nickname now. Mr. Talk and Do! Everywhere I go people call me, Talk and Do.
Thank you for that. Thank you for letting me earn your confidence. And thank you for letting me show you who I am and what I can do. I will not let you down.
I have always put actions to my words. And I always say the best predictor of future performance and behavior is past performance and behavior.
I have the business experience and know-how to jump start the Liberian economy; I know how to create jobs and I have managed budgets many times the size of Liberia’s national budget.
My sole purpose in running in this race is to bring my experience to transform Liberia for future generations and give our children the same opportunities I had.
I care for you and I care passionately for the Liberian people.
Now I know, some people want to say I don‚t know Liberian politics, that I‚’m new.
I say yes! I do not know Liberian politics, I don’t know corruption, I have never chopped money from people I serve, and I don’t intend to learn those bad habits that our politicians here have.
But I will tell you what I know. I will tell you that I have Clean Hands. I have had Clean Hands throughout my career. And I will bring these same clean hands to government.
I have no political scores to settle, I am free from any debts or political favors to anyone. I am free from any corruption charges or allegations.
As you go to the polls on Tuesday, I ask you to ask yourselves, who can transform Liberia?
Who can deliver on the change you can trust? Who is here working and fighting for the Liberian people?
Liberians have proved the world wrong before. We’ve found peace amid a war that they said would never end.
We conquered a disease that was supposed to destroy us. And after 73 years, we are going to vote in a new government, from one elected president to another.
We are about to turn this country around and bring in the change we can trust.
We are going to do it with our children in mind, and we are going to show the world that we can make history again and do so peacefully.
I am confident that we can transform this country, but this change that we want so desperately for Liberia, the change the Liberian people want to believe in, begins with you.
Vote peacefully, embrace your neighbors. Even with our different views, we are one people.
On election day, I, Alexander B. Cummings ask you to trust me with your vote, and give Amb. Jeremiah C. Sulunteh and I the privilege to represent you, give us the mandate to change our country for the better, and allow me the honor to be called President of the Republic of Liberia.
God bless you, and God bless the people of Liberia!