A Patriot’s Diary with Ekena Wesley
Even at the helm of leadership, the governing CDC is grossly inept. Should we have reasons to believe the hastily arranged quasi-congress that was cubicled in a grotesque room was indicative of some form of protest? State resources are at its disposal. Even the man shamelessly ‘selected’ as Chief Scribe of the party heads the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC). Jeff Koijee would at will decide to whimsically place the City Hall at short notice for use by the CDC. Amid President Weah’s extended wasteful stay abroad, state coffers became a center of loot to appease his social safari. So the ruling party couldn’t have been sheepishly naive to cocoon itself unremorsefully in a cubicle. It was a disgusting disgrace, to say the least.
But Liberians crazily voted euphorically. They were tired of UP’s mess! 12 years of good-for-nothing smart and educated people producing no results – at least in the thinking of CDCians. They sloganeered that George Weah is iconically the most patriotic Liberian since independence. That Weah’s DNA was imbued with so much love for the small West African nation. The masses insanely reckoned Weah as a symbol of their true identity. Supposedly from one of the biggest slums, he understands their plight better than anyone whatsoever.
As the Brits would say: “They are not to blame…” They come from the grassroots. They have lived in poverty for ages. They know no such things as a full, balanced meal. They live on less than a dollar a day. They are jobless but are united in their categorical belief that George Weah is a true reflection of who they are. Amid entrenched disenchantment, they fanatically believe in their King George. They believe their icon deserves a second term in the face of biting hardships and sheer incompetence.
Comrade Dr. Henry Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. – was right- “The masses do not know their true leaders. It was an apparent reference to the 1997 elections. Dr. Fahnbulleh was on the campaign trail in Nimba. A somewhat encouraging crowd had earlier assembled to listen to him. As Dr. Fahnbulleh thrilled the crowd rhetorically, an elongated convey of Charles Taylor’s late Vice President, Enoch Dogoulea came breezing dust at the gathering. Within minutes, the crowd that had gathered to listen to Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr. gradually disappeared into thin air. In utter shock and bewilderment, H.B. incomprehensibly remarked: “Even the masses do not know their true leaders.”
The masses in the small West African nation are equally consumed by some kind of political psychic disorder. We don’t blame them anyway – as the Babylonians would reckon as a thought. In the face of the recent shocking uncivilized gathering, dubbed special congress, the party hurriedly bestowed confidence in several senior partisans. No iota of an officially publicized congress! Unheard of, representations from the 15 counties under the banner of delegates in whose hands the fate of elected national executives lie proved nonexistent. What’s going on with the so-called party of grassroots folks or perhaps the ‘masses?’ In their own words: “We are the masses, we don’t get tired! Huh!
That couldn’t have been the genuine concerns of the beleaguered ‘masses’ who cannot survive on a dollar a day. Such a demeaning slogan unarguably constitutes a group of once-perceived downtrodden chaps that had tasted power and sought to misrepresent their jobless brethren tucked by the trappings of life’s harsh socioeconomic realities. The Greeks who introduced the public arena of democratic engagement sought to invoke participatory democracy. But the occasioning antecedents or missteps in Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), an auxiliary of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change is not surprising though. The CDC emerged on the political landscape as a cult.
Hmm! A cult? Die-hard CDCians would reckon such categorization as a travesty or some kind of political abomination. Those who clumsily assembled in a circus-styled arena might not have acted democratically but they are raising some concerns. Perhaps something isn’t right after all. On the heels of President George Weah’s most sickening waste and abuse of public resources, his party surreptitiously planned, organized, and staged a political palace coup. This does not speak well of the governing party in terms of cohesiveness. Has the CDC ever been symbiotic as an institutional embodiment? The party has been about, for, and by football legend, George Manneh Weah. As a result, Weah’s will remains paramount. The party’s constitution is insignificant to the whims and caprices of Weah’s parochial interest.
Would the outcome of the bogus CDC congress hold in Weah’s political kingdom? The bunch of jokers who assembled and organized so dubious a congress would have their tails between the legs like tailless dogs when President Weah shall have returned. And their pseudo-congress would have become a story that never was as it were. Let those that have the political spines challenge an all-powerful George Weah of the CDC dynasty. Not one will attempt to put foot. These are all cowards, and losers that are worst than spineless bigots. Not in Weah’s banana republic!
