By Cllr. Garrison Yealue (former representative, Nimba County)
Your desperate attempt to turn Liberia’s sacred Lone Star into a partisan playground proves that the Unity Party cannot distinguish between national unity and partisan desperation.
While our players fought valiantly on the pitch, your regime hijacked a national symbol to mask its glaring failure to deliver basic governance. An administration that exploits national pride to hide domestic ruin exposes its total bankruptcy of vision. As Chief Tamba Taylor wisely observed, a shepherd who divides his own flock to spite the goat will soon watch the entire herd get devoured by the wolf.
Your unearned audacity to lecture the Congress for Democratic Change on bitterness is laughable coming from a man whose political career is a masterclass in personal failure. Before boasting about your inflated role, remind Liberians of a single elected seat you have ever won on your own merit.
You hold the unique disgrace of being the first ruling party chairman to protest outside his own president’s bedroom because his personal appetite remained unsated. As Chief Zoe Gbehmie put it best, the child who attempts to burn down the family house over a missed meal is the same child who ends up sleeping under the cold sky.
Your childish confusion between a routine democratic transition and the demise of a political powerhouse reveals a frightening lack of political intelligence. Instead of deflecting through endless empty talk and political evasions to cover up your disastrous failures, we openly challenge you and the Unity Party to line up your development and governance records against ours in a public debate.
The CDC surrendered power with statesmanlike dignity, while your accidental victory stripped your leadership of both logic and patriotism. As Chief Suakoko warned, the bird that learns to fly without perching must remember that the sky is never a home.
Belittling President George Manneh Weah, Africa’s only FIFA World Player of the Year, European Footballer of the Year, and Ballon d’Or winner, is as embarrassing as your party’s disastrous governance record.
While local sports rot and agriculture lies abandoned, President Boakai writes fan letters to foreign football clubs like Arsenal and spends millions building a private housing estate in Foya after claiming he lived on loans.
As Chief Jallah noted, the man who admires his neighbor’s farm while his own fields grow weeds will soon pay the bitter price of hunger.
Your reckless suggestion that patriotic CDCians be donated elsewhere is a pathetic attempt to divide a nation you lack the competence to lead. Your partisan grandstanding will not fix a collapsing economy, nor will your sycophancy hide the reality that former President Weah remains the true architect of modern Liberian democracy. As Oldman Tarpeh reminded us, a leader who sells his brothers to buy a crown will soon discover that he rules over an empty town.
Your obsessive fixation on President Weah reveals the deep insecurity of a failing regime that realizes an 83-year-old leader has delivered division instead of reconciliation.
While you consume yourself with hatred for a leader who is still celebrated across every village and town, our party doors remain open to help you recover from your political delusion. As Chief Botoe Barclay declared, the dog that barks relentlessly at the moon does not disturb the moon; it only exposes its own exhaustion to the night.
