MONROVIA – Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has strongly rejected viral social media claims that she donated US$15,000 and several bags of cement to the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) for the construction of its new headquarters. The allegation, which circulated widely online, sparked debate over her alleged political loyalties, but Madam Sirleaf dismissed it as “crap and nonsense.”
Speaking on Monday, September 1, 2025, Madam Sirleaf told journalist Julius Jeh of OK FM that the rumor is baseless and politically motivated. “Those people who put this crap, this nonsense, on social media, they must just love my name. They must just love me and can’t keep their mouth off me,” she said. “Anybody who put that crap out there, I say they are damn stupid. Please repeat it for me and put it just like I say it. Let everybody hear exactly where it is. Then maybe they will stop these damn lies.”
The former president further emphasized that no representative of the CDC had approached her for support. “Never, never. No CDC person has reached me on no support. They have no reason to call me for support. I’m busy with my things I do, with my center things I do, with my farm. I’m out of their damn politics,” she added.
Madam Sirleaf expressed frustration over the proliferation of sensational political rumors, describing them as divisive and harmful to national reconciliation efforts. “The politics here is so terrible because it’s so sensational. People want to do the good things for the country, promote the good part of the country, support the president in everything he does if it’s in the interest of the country, and every day somebody comes up with some nonsense or the other,” she said.
She continued, “It’s so doggone sickening. I just wish Liberian people would just get to work. They’re so bored with laziness, that’s why they can’t work. All they do is create problems with people, create tension in the country, trying to divide people when we’re trying to promote reconciliation.”
Madam Sirleaf’s statements underscore her insistence that she has no involvement in the CDC’s political or construction projects and that the viral claims are intended to mislead the public and foment division.
