The Liberian People’s Party or LPP is expected to hold its 5th national congress from May 6-8, in Montserrado County.
The gathering will discuss and approve party policies and programs including pending Legislative and Presidential Elections slated for next year.
According to the report, the party will elect new corps of officers to replace the outgoing leadership headed by Cllr. Joseph Kolako Kpator Jallah who has served diligently.
Jallah has been LPP’s Chairperson for 17 years and is expected to contest the Lofa County’s by-election as an independent candidate for the second time running but this with the support of the ruling party Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) after he is being accused of disowning his party.
The National Executive Committee of the CDC on Friday, April 29, endorsed Jallah, for the Senate in the National Elections Commission’s announced by-election campaign in Lofa County.
“After a careful scrutiny of the background, history, experience and progressive credentials of various candidates, Jallah excels in prominence as the most prepared statesman to provide Senate-leadership in pursuit of its socio-economic, infrastructural, educational and agricultural agenda for the people of Lofa County,” the CDC statement is quoted.
It went further that CDC’s support for Jallah is also influenced by existing commonalities he shares with the CDC’s development platform, which prioritizes the interests of ordinary Liberians, teachers, students, farmers and civil servants alike.
The CDC endorsement comes as the party continues its ongoing restructuring program in all 15 counties, which is to be followed by the conduct of county and national conventions throughout the country.
Jallah first contested the Tuesday, December 8, 2020 midterm senatorial polls in Lofa County as independent candidate and came second to the winner, Brownie Jeffery Samukai.
But Jallah, 61, told a local radio station in Monrovia that Lofians believe in “tradition” instead of political party (ies) politics therefore he is vying again as independent candidate having acknowledged of being LPP’s Chairperson since 2005.
He said that as an outgoing chairperson, he does not want to be an obstacle of the LPP’s 5th national congress slated for this weekend as the party is expected to elect new leadership to continue where he and others stopped.
The LPP’s Chairperson is among five applicants who have been provisionally cleared as candidates for the Tuesday, May 10, Lofa County’s senatorial by-election.
Others are Lofa and Montserrado Counties’ Electoral District 4 and 12 Representatives Mariamu Fofana, and George B. Samah, and Security Expert Guard Agency of Liberia (SEGAL) Manager, Momo Cyrus.
Also, listed are Liberia Petroleum Refinery Corporation (LPRC) former Managing Director, Sumo G. Kupee; and Lofa County’s former Superintendent, Galakpai Kortimai, whose ability to contest as Unity Party’s candidate is being contested by other members of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP).
Jallah and Kortimai hail from Zorzor District in Lofa County but the LPP chairperson has educationally impacted many lives in his native land in particular and Liberia at large.
