Barely two weeks following the celebration of the 163 Independence of Liberia in Nimba County, more than six administrative districts in the County have issued a strongly worded reaction to the petitioning of President Ellen Johnson that took place in the county to contest the 2011 presidential election.

At a joint leadership meeting in Gboa Taylay, Taykpaglay Township, citizens from sixteen communities in Zoegeh Statutory District said the statement made by some individuals in the county for President Sirleaf to run for the second term was not a consensus, political dream or aspiration of the people of Nimba in general.

The citizen groupings from Zoe, Gbao, Gbor and other Clans categorically said the Bahn and Tappita petition statements do not in any way represent the heavily populated constituency of Nimba. The group therefore described the July 26 petition of the Unity Party Standard Bearer as rubbish and a work of people who only seek for what to put in their pockets.

"While it is true that certain individuals serving in the local government administration in Nimba County were paid to prepare the petition just to impose another colonial government on the Liberian people, especially on the Nimba people, It is also necessary for the public to note that the petition did not meet the consensus of the Nimba people as the July 26 was not intended for any political manipulation," the statement stressed.

The citizens argued that the petitioning of President Sirleaf overshadowed the cutting of ribbons to several development projects in the county, something they said politically abused opposition politicians who traveled to Nimba to take part in the celebration.

The citizens called on the public not to believe the government sponsored petition that was underwritten by tax payer's money to mislead people about the political direction of the people of Nimba.

Meanwhile, two Lawmakers of Nimba who recently castigated Senator Prince Johnson for not attending the July 26 Celebration have been condemned by a cross -section of citizens from the county.

Senator Adolphus Dolo and Representative Francis Karway, who are members of the ruling Unity Party said recently that they will not vote for Senator Johnson and would campaign against him, arguing that it was not his time.

These statements have since not gone down well with citizens of the county, who feel it was an act of begging for job from the Unity Party. Some questions many are asking are, "who determines whose time it is to become president of Liberia? Is it Representative Karway or Senator Dolo?

"Those guys know that they are already out of the Capitol Building, so they are trying to tie their "lappa nose" to that of Ellen for job," a youth leader of Bahn indicated.

Senator Johnson boycotted the recent July 26 Celebration in Nimba due to propaganda ploy designed to match the event aimed at blackmailing and belittling opposition politicians.