As of today, the Liberia Action Party (LPA), the Liberia Unification Party (LUP) will be no more, meaning that they become an integral part of the Unity Party (UP) in keeping with the merger reached about three months ago.

More besides, the NEC said the decision to certificate the parties stemmed from the screening and verification of the proposal for merger and in keeping with Chapters 7 & 8 of the New Law of 1986.

This is so because the National Elections Commission (NEC) will today accredit the merged UP which also means that the LUP and LAP will cease to exist.

It may be recalled that the three indigenous political institutions agreed to come together under one umbrella as a means of decrowding the electoral field which many believe is still too crowded.

The National Elections Commission (NEC) in a release issued yesterday said it will today Wednesday, August 25, perform the task of issuing a certificate of accreditation to the merged Unity Party (UP) at its 9th Street Headquarters at about 11 a.m.

According to the NEC, the accreditation of the UP comes in the wake of a political merger of the Liberia Action Party (LAP), Liberian Unification Party (LUP) and the Unity Party (UP).

The Commission said it was taking the action because it received an Article of Merger from the three merged parties, requesting it (the Commission) to allow them function as a single full-fledged political party.

The three parties then considered as Liberia’s traditional political establishments came to the decision following series of behind-the-scene discussions after which a convention was held in Nimba for the purpose of sealing the merger.

During the convention which the saw the signing the document of merger by representatives of the three parties, several officials who are to run the day to day affairs of the new party were elected and subsequently inducted into office few weeks later.

It is a mere conjecture for anyone as to how the founders of the three parties, peace be to the ashes, LAP, Gabriel Kpolleh, LUP, and Edward B. Kesselly, LAP will be feeling on the day the parties they suffered to establish for their individual political interests will be no more.