The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has rejected the decision of her political party, the Unity Party to sack her for alleged roles leading to the ruling party’s defeat in last year’s presidential elections.
President Sirleaf refused to back her current vice president, Joseph Boakai in the presidential elections and the party on whose ticket she won elections and led the country for 12 years accused her of holding inappropriate private meetings with election magistrates before the October 10 vote.
It’s not only the current president that was expelled from the ruling party, four other party officials were also affected.
The party said in a statement distributed on Sunday that “The behaviour of the expelled persons … constitutes sabotage and undermined the existence of the party,” said the statement announcing the decision, which was taken by the party’s executive committee late on Saturday.
But President Sirleaf has described her expulsion as illegal and will now appeal the decision.
Information Minister Eugene Nagbe, on Tuesday said President Sirleaf’s expulsion didn’t follow the party’s constitution.
Former football star George Weah defeated the Unity Party’s Joseph Boakai in two separate elections as he prepares to take over as the country’s next president this month.
It will be the first time in over 70 years that the nation founded by freed American slaves witnesses peaceful transfer of power from one democratically elected government to the other.
Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2011 is Africa’s first democratically elected female president.
Source: Africafeeds.com
