KAKATA, Margibi County – The group, under the banner, ‘The Rev. Giddings Political Action Team (GPAT)’ has brushed aside speculations that their political leader, Rev. G. Emmanuel Giddings is no longer contesting the senatorial seat of Margibi County in Liberia’s upcoming general elections.
“Fellow Liberians and mainly the People of Margibi county; the Rev. Giddings Political Action Team is pleased to say to you that a cheap propaganda circulating in the corridors of our beloved county, Margibi and the country as a whole, that our Political leader in Rev. Emmanuel Jutonue Giddings is no longer contesting in up-coming October 10th, 2023 elections as Senator is false and misleading, and is only intended to distract the minds of the people of Margibi County. It has no iota of truth” the group said in the statement.
“Such cheap propaganda from lazy politicians in the county is a tactic to reduce the support base of our supporters who are mainly the masses, by selfish and non-visionary politicians parading in our county pretending to be saviors of the people.”
Rev. Giddings, a household name in Margibi County, is among several prominent residents of Margibi who have expressed their desire to join the county’s senatorial race. But GPAT said, in recent days, Rev. Giddings’ political opponents have been running a “mere” propaganda that he is backing from the race.
“GPAT assures you that our leader, Rev. Emmanuel Jutonue Giddings remains committed to contesting and winning the October 10,2023 Senatorial elections in the county and that at no time has our political leader ever held a discussion with or accepted moneys from any individual with the intent of backing-off from the elections.”
The group said it sees “these mere propagandas as scare tactics on the part of failed and lazy Politicians who have over-night gotten richer at the expense of our people who cannot easily send their children to school, pay their family or relatives medical bills, afford their house rents or build a house, or cater to some of their basic human needs.”
The group noted that the mission to ensure that Margibi is not given to “corrupt, failed and desperate politicians” remains on course and that no level of cheap propaganda can distract them from ensuring that the people of Margibi county make the rightful choice in the pending elections; adding that “no amount of ill-amassed wealth from these purported humanitarians can have a space in the body politics of Margibi County.”
Further in the statement, the group said it has gathered that after their failed attempt to lie about Rev. Giddings’ participation in the October polls, his political opponents are rallying support to protest against him for his alleged involvement into the death of student Odell P. Sherman in 2019.
The late Sherman was discovered unconscious and taken to the ELWA hospital where she later died after nearly two hours. The police conducted a comprehensive investigation that included an autopsy and brought the case to a logical conclusion in which Rev. Giddings was vindicated from all the allegations brought against him.