25 November 2009
Liberty Party's first-round senatorial contender, Darius Dillon, has given early hats-off to run-off contender Geraldine Doe-Sherif of the CDC on her election as Senator of Montserrado County.
Dillon, one of eight contenders in the Montserrado County Senatorial By-Election who failed to make it to the top, said there were early indications from results announced by NEC so far that candidate Sherif was poised to win.
Mr. Dillon noted in a letter he sent to The Analyst last evening that Sherif's assumed victory was a verdict against the Sirleaf Administration. He did not say how; neither did he bother to give any statistics on which such conjecture, observers say, could have been reliably and understandably based.
He however noted, "I wish to congratulate Madam Doe- Sherif for her well-deserved victory. Our people, the voters, have rendered their verdict against the ruling government." He said the assumed verdict suggested that the domestic policies of the ruling government were not being positively felt by the Liberian people.
"Our people have rendered their verdict against the increasingly high level corruption, lack of job opportunities, selective justice, nepotism, cronyism, and other societal vices to which this government continues to play a deliberate blind eye or lacks the will to tackle or alleviate," he said.
This "win," according to him, was also a win for the 'opposition block'. "I hope that the 'opposition block' can now clearly read the 'writing on the wall' that 'TOGETHER, WE CAN WIN'," he said.
He said what was most important to him at the moment was that he felt particularly elated because Madam Doe-Sherif's "victory" fell in straight line with his vision that it was about time that a new breed of generational and visionary leaders take over political leadership in Liberia.
"I can only urge Madam Doe-Sherif to use her victory as a stepping stone to restore the confidence of our people who, by their demonstrated apathy to cast their votes in large numbers, expressed their disappointment, frustration and anger at some past and present politicians for failing to live to their campaign promises; thereby dampening their hopes for a bright future," Dillon said.
Meanwhile, Dillioin has urged Madam Doe-Sherif to perform consistent with her campaign promises to dispel the notion that "nothing good comes out of Nazareth".
'Nazareth' in this case, he said, represented the "young people". He then noted in closing: "May God bless Senator-in-Waiting Madam Geraldine Doe-Sherif and save our Country."
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