Liberia: The Brumskine-Urey Team - Who Will Surrender?

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It is often said that "man is a political being" and so whenever they meet in a gathering or anywhere, the issue of politics is always part of the discussions. Although the next presidential election is set for 2017, and that no one has yet been qualified by the National Elections Commission (NEC) for the process, as "political beings," some Liberians always make it their duty to discuss the possible candidates for the racer come that time. Just yesterday, I was fortunate to uninvitingly bump into a discussion by some females who were discussing the possible meager of the former political leader of the Liberty Party , Cllr. Charles W. Brumskine and Liberian businessman Benoni Urey, now of the Congress For Democratic Change (CDC) as a strong team during the 2017 presidential elections.

Observably, as I listened to the women, I noticed that their discussions stemmed from two major incidents. The first relates to the recent declaration by Mr. Urey that he might contest for the presidency during the 2017 elections. Mr. Urey, few days ago, told THE INQUIRER that he has an ambition to contest the 2017 presidential and general elections. Urey is a member of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of Amb. George Weah. But when our reporter asked him whether he would be the standard bearer of the CDC in 2017 despite the position of Mr. Weah as the political leader of the party, Mr. Urey said at the appropriate time, the Liberian people will decide but what concerns him most is to do everything to ensure that Amb. Weah wins the Senatorial seat of Montserrado County in the October 2014 Senatorial election.

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