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By Joseph Tumbey

Afric Daily Newspaper – Monrovia: As the internal wrangling intensified within the opposition Liberty party, the embattled Political Leader of the Party, Senator Nyonblee Karngar Lawrence with her supporters accused the National Elections Commission of being biased by Favoring the party Chairman, Musa Hassan Bility over their ongoing constitutional saga.
Senator Kangar rallied huge supporters on Friday October 28 petitioning the US Embassy with other international partners including the Head of the NEC,Madam Davidetta Browne-Lansanah over what they said was the NEC role to embolden the conflict within the Liberty Party.
According to them, after their 2021 Gbanga convention that brought Musa to Chairmanship, he along with the secretary elect by then, Martin Kular stole their constitution, proceeded to alter provisions relating to the power relation between the Political Leader and the National Executive Committee and secretly delivered it to the National elections Commission unknown to the convention presiding officer and their Political leader, Senator Nyomblee .
The Embattled LP Political Leader said, NEC rejected their request and insisted not to return the document until properly challenged after informing them that the documents from the convention were submitted outside of the Commission’s Revised Guidelines and that provisions approved by delegates had been altered, thus necessitating a retrieval for correction.
“Your Excellences, attached to this statement are records from the side of the Political Leader of the Liberty Party for your perusal. In all of this, we believe the NEC is being used by hidden hands, clearly the ruling party from which it receives instructions, to preside over the systematic disintegration of Liberty Party, and we are not prepared to see this happen”, their petition stated.
However, they predict Liberia could be headed for trouble, should the Commission remain as it presently from her role in the procurement of twenty (20) thermometers with a price tag of USD$9,166 per piece which in reality was valued at USD$500 per unit, to the current procurement process for the biometric materials that is endangering the conduct of the 2023 Elections resulting to a clear lack of direction for democratic process.

“It being clear that the NEC is the principal enabler of the negative actions of Mr. Bility in the ongoing intra-party conflict, we request, Your Excellences, to exert all influence at your disposal on the NEC to have it log without delay, the corrected version of the Liberty Party Constitution. This will, in effect, bring to a close the question of who does what in the party, as the Constitution is very clear on this matter.
In view of the corrupt nature of the Chairperson of NEC, she should step down as head of NEC in order to restore confidence in the Commission. Her retention as Chair will be a bad omen for free, fair and credible 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections.
That due to the incompetency of the Board of Commissioners and their ruling party affiliation, a five-member counterpart commissioners composed of Electoral Experts from: ECOWAS, the African Union, and the United Nations be established to jointly conduct the 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections to prevent the country from returning to chaos”, they recommended during their petition.
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