Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is rallying fellow Liberians or compatriots to support the new government, so as to enable it succeed.
She said, among many things, that doing so would signify the growth of the country’s democracy to the outside world with two successful transfers of power from one elected regime to another.
Johnson-Sirleaf, 85, made these comments when she spoke to State-owned broadcaster (ELBC) on its midweek program, “Changing Mind, Changing Attitude” yesterday in Monrovia.
She noted that Liberia will be more transformed when Liberians from all walks of life unite or join ranks with the new regime to make it to succeed.
“Liberia is being credited with a success story following the conduct of two successful elections without any hindrance, and has been hailed both locally and internationally for others to emulate,” Johnson-Sirleaf said.
She believes that the country’s democratic credential is growing, on grounds that it was able to have financed and conducted its own electoral process, which was witnessed by thousands of local and international observers who termed the exercise as worth emulating.
On Monday, January 22, the world will witness the second peaceful transfer of authority from one democratically elected administration to another since the country came into being.
The first was 6 years ago, on Monday, January 22, 2018, when for the very first time in 171 years, the country held and the world saw the first peaceful transfer of power. And now, a week from now, another history is about to be made.
