RED LIGHT, Paynesville – A group of clergymen under the banner, “Founding Pastor of Liberty Party” have endorsed the Presidential and Vice-Presidential ticket Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine and Mr. Alexander Cummings.
The group, led by Bishop Dr. Ola W.B. Jallah, founder and Pastor of the Outreach Ministries in Paynesville said, the majority of them were founding members of the Liberty Party (LP) and ardent supporters of the late Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine, founder of the LP.
In his demise, the clergymen said they are confident that his daughter, Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine will fill in the void of her father and continue his dream. This is the reason they have decided to support her political endeavors; accordingly, they have decided to support the CCP ticket.
“Cllr. Brumskine saw us as precious to him. He made us a family and the Liberty Party was founded by Ministers of the Gospel. It was pastors that passed the resolution to form the Liberty Party. And after 14 days of fasting and praying, the name was chosen. We are here because I believe the work of Cllr. Brumskine has not completed. And Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine is Cllr. Charles Brumskine. We will give our support to the CPP because we have made our decision to stand by her,” said Bishop Jallah, on behalf of the group.
Cllr. Brumskine, accepting the endorsement, thanked the clergymen for the decision and rallied their respective congregations not only to support the Presidential and vice-presidential tickets, but all of the legislative candidates on the party’s ticket.
“We will fight for you, nobody will fight for you then us. We will advocate for you. We will fight for Liberia. I am so humbled and grateful, and I am so blessed that you took your time to invite us here to pledge your support. God first, we will not disappoint you. We will do everything to live up to your expectation if we are elected,” Brumskine said.
The Liberty Party has been embroiled in an acrimonious internal wrangling that eventually led to a split, with one group supporting Musa Bility, the Party’s Chairman and the other group pledging loyalty to the former Standard bearer, Senator Nyonblee Karngar Lawrence of Grand Bassa County.
However, following her selection by Mr. Cummings as his running on the CPP ticket, Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine has received huge endorsement from members of the Liberty who pledge their support to Senator Karngar-Lawrence and those that were neutral.
The split led to Cllr. Senator Karngar-Lawrence and her supporters abandoned Liberty and switched loyalty to the Unity Party’s standard bearer Amb. Joseph Boakai. Cllr. Brumskine was then called upon by the LP and Mr. Cummings to serve as his running mate, thereby abandoning her previous quest to contest the Grand Bassa District Three Representative seat.
Speaking on her selection process, Brumskine thanked Mr. Cummings and said it was a divine intervention, something she compared to the story of David in the Bible who was the least among his siblings to be anointed by God as King of Israel.
She said to fill the void left by her father is not an easy task but by the help of God and the Liberty Party, she will rise to the occasion.
With less than two months until Liberia’s crucial elections, major candidates are making frantic efforts to woo voters. Observers say the presidential polls will be a tight race among the top presidential candidates including the incumbent President George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), former VP Boakai of the UP, Mr. Cummings and Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe of the Liberian People Party (LPP).
However, Cllr. Brumskine said, judging from the 2017 elections, it was unlikely that Amb. Boakai will be a major contender in the upcoming October polls.
“This is very simple, nobody should fool anybody. Unity Party was beating badly in 2017. This thing here is between us and the CDC. Anybody who can do the Maths… There is no way the Liberian people who voted for George Manneh Weah will give their votes to AMb. Boakai. This thing here is between us and CDC,” she said.
She said eventually, the CPP will triumph owing to what she called the dismal performance of the Weah-Taylor regime. She said while President Weah made some gains in constructing few roads in Monrovia and its environs, it failed in key sectors. The government, she said, failed to attract investment, improved healthcare and education, among others.
She said a Cummings-Brumskine government will fight for all Liberians irrespective of their tribes, gender and religious beliefs.
