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Original Post Date: 2011-03-16 Time: 14:00:04 Posted By: News Poster
In times past, perhaps rarely in recent times, opposition elements and critics of Liberia’s political regimes are considered sworn enemies that deserve nothing but a deadly political blow. Brute force, coercion and intimidation were the arsenal tools incumbents used to subdue opponents into submission. Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is doing something quite unprecedented and extraordinary, and it appears she reaping the fruits. Curse her crudely. Lash at her brutally verbally. Win public laurels for your volleys of denunciation of her policy and her person. She would not talk back. She got the way she would catch and baptize you with her schemes of things- -seamlessly. Many have fallen to the charm and the public marvels. Call them victims or beneficiaries. The Analyst identifies a few of them in this report.
Many have said Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is critics-proof, meaning that she often wards off correction and censure, but what has proven to be the truer is that the critics soon realize the futility- -others say wrongness- -of their criticisms and instead vindicate her with their embraces of her person and policies.
The lineup is long but here is are a few major former detractors and demonizers of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in her capacity as activist and President of Liberia who have turned out to be praise-singers and political pals of late: H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr; J. Milton Teahjay; Cllr.Varney Sherman; Edwin Melvin Snowe; Isaac Jackson and Darious Dillon. Even CDC’s Eugene Nagbe has jumped on board for her farsightedness and capacity to lead.
Sirleaf’s critics as lined up are akin not merely in their open lethal criticism and denunciation of her in the fast, beating their chests as sworn opponent who would not rest until she crawls out of grace, but end up bowing to her “majesty” with praise-signing that often stuns the public.
Most of these opposition defectors as some call them often justify their crossovers as an attempt of “looking at a bigger picture, which is Liberia” and allow Mrs. Sirleaf, even though condemned to death in the past, to end her second term in the national interest.
Many of the defectors belong to the most critical sections of the Liberian opposition bloc to Madam Sirleaf; individuals who project themselves as the most vicious and unpromising figures of those sections.
But, characteristically they defect from their camps with the rather questionable rationale of “looking at the bigger picture which is Liberia”.
Several of them, however, have been recompensed with jobs as result of their crossover, not only bringing the integrity of opposition politics into disrepute, but also delving a lethal blow to multiparty democracy.
H. Boima Fahnbulleh
Very prominent on the list of opposition defectors is H. Boima Fahnbulleh, now National Security Advisor to President Sirleaf. Unlike many of Fahnbulleh’s kinds on the list, his opposition was actually at its peak before Madam Sirleaf became President.
Fahnbulleh was a member of the Movement for Justice in Africa, one of the fiercest opposition against the True Whig Party of which Madam Sirleaf was a prominent official: Minister of Finance. He also was the political leader of the Liberia Reformation Party, one of the 12 parties that contested the 1997 elections which former President Taylor won.
While in the Diaspora- -Fahnbulleh called it “in the Mountain”- -the Liberian intelligentsia bloc- -held divergent views on how to restore order and democracy back home, and Fahnbulleh was in the center of those bitter changes that characterized the discourse.
In most of his critical writings, Fahnbulleh portrayed Madam Sirleaf as a failure, an irresponsible politician who and Mr. Taylor were in cohort in the militarization of Liberia. His series of published articles and orations denounced Sirleaf as a TWP incarnate that must not be given relevance and must be blocked from national leadership.
J. Milton Teahjay
J. Milton Teahjay also shocked the opposition community when he was announced Superintendent of Sinoe County. Teahjay, formerly stalwart of the Unity People’s Party and political advisor of the Congress for Democratic Change, projected himself the most formidable critic of Madam Sirleaf and her administration.
Teahjay’s loathe for Madam President came to the peak during the 2005 runoff elections when he repeatedly said Madam Sirleaf rigged.
As the key shot-shooter at the time, Teahjay vowed that his Congress for Democratic Change would not accept the result of the elections and was prepared to abort Madam Sirleaf’s inauguration; a statement that gave birth to his famous or infamous quote “hair must grow in my palms” if she is inaugurated.
Sirleaf was inaugurated, nevertheless. But this did not quench Teahjay’s opposition. At CDC assemblies and in the press, Teahjay’s denunciation of Sirleaf reverberated with the most crude words he could muster, at one time saying, “if Madam Sirleaf tempers with the next elections [2011 elections], we will beat her like market do[…]”
Teahjay’s enthralling anti-Sirleaf war rhetoric has since dissipated form the airwaves; courtesy of Sirleaf’s offer of Superintendent post for Sinoe County.
Varney B. Sherman
Varney B. Sherman, now a sworn defender and vocal public relations officer for President Sirleaf not only put up brave fight in the 2005 elections as standard-bearer of COTOL but as one of the crude critics of Madam Sirleaf.
As if he regarded Sirleaf the most formidable challenger in the 2005 elections, Sherman’s public statements were not complete without mentioning her as a troublemaker that must not be voted for.
Sherman made Sirleaf of a caricature of warmonger in most of his public speeches during and shortly after the 2005 elections.
Varney Sherman’s COTOL which took the fourth place in the first round of the 2005 elections joined ranks with the CDC and he led the propaganda war of the CDC against Sirleaf and her Unity Party.
He called on Liberians not to vote for Sirleaf because she was not different from Charles Taylor and others who planned and implemented the civil conflict that brought untold suffering upon the people of Liberia.
But the topnotch Liberian lawyer changed gear perhaps few months, if not years, after the elections, merging his COTOL/LAP with Madam Sirleaf’s Unity Party.
Edwin M. Snowe
Edwin Melvin Snowe, though with a high vacillation record between political camps, surprised supporters, including critics, when he joined the critics-turned-pal bandwagon.
What surprised critics about Snowe’s defection comes from the fact that he’s perhaps the only defector to Madam Sirleaf who has come into open political conflict with Sirleaf as President, costing him his much-cherished job of Speaker of the House.
Snowe comes from the ranks of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Party even though he contested the representative seat in 2005 as independent. Not too many people were convinced that his move was to sever relations with the NPP but rather to keep the fragrance of the NPFL-turned NPP at the distance.
Some analysts believe Snowe’s virulent opposition of Ellen and her Government was rooted in an inherent bad blood between his forebear, the NPP, and Madam Ellen Sirleaf over former President Taylor’s turnover to the international court of justice, a move the NPP forces believe was underpinned by Sirleaf’s overtures.
Snowe and other NPP stalwarts or Taylor’s buddies are serving UN travel ban.
In addition to those moves, which essentially affected Snowe and others, it is widely believed that President Sirleaf sponsored plotting the removal of Snowe as Speaker of the House.
Naturally, as one pundit said, President Sirleaf’s alleged anti-Snowe maneuvers were not to be given a lovely kiss, but the crudest political opposition.
And for most part of Sirleaf’s six-year tenure, Edwin Melvin Snowe was on the rampage, ravaging nearly all policies of her administration.
Like most of the Sirleaf’s critics, Snowe wrote less but talked tough more, using most media outlets to devour the President’s moral and political standing.
He said over and over that there was a need for a regime change because the President was presiding over failed policies.
He particularly condemned and underrated the administration’s reconciliation policy and social service programs.
An elected official- -a lawmaker- -Snowe’s reward that got him over to his former foe is not yet known.
Darius Dillon
Before Darius Dillon wrapped around his left arm President Sirleaf’s supermarket bag on shopping spree during both persons’ recent trip abroad, not too many people thought they could see “eye to eye” as it is commonly said in Liberia.
But Darius Dillon, a youthful former restless critic of Ellen, followed where his role models and big brothers left it: jumping onboard with the much-condemned, “failed” policies which he before than considered anti-people.
A former stalwart of Charles Brumskine’s Liberty Party, Dillon is perhaps the former critic of Sirleaf who never let a day passed without saying something negative of Sirleaf or her administration.
Upon hearing he joined Sirleaf, one observer, “So Mr. All-Time Critic Dillon joined the bandwagon with Teahjay and others. What a disgrace”.
Critic journalists who did not want to openly criticize the administration lest they are branded partisan journalists made Dillon their vehicle; because he had hardly turned down an interview on Sirleaf and the policy of her administration.
And Dillon maximized the opportunity that the local media provided; he was always ready to raise in not-too-pleasant voice high in point out one fault or another of Sirleaf or her government.
A fortnight ago, he voluntarily silenced himself as “Mr. All-time Ellen Critic”. The voice now has become a melody for the former devil he painted of her.
Isaac Jackson
Before Dillon pledged support to President Sirleaf’s second bid for the presidency, his fellow Liberty Party stalwart, Isaac Jackson, had already been co-opted with Assistant Minister for Information Services at the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism.
Though Jackson could not bear the sting of opposition life for long like Dillon and others, he was equally crude and fierce in his censure of Madam Sirleaf.
His short anti-Ellen opposition, like others before and after him, was promoted by Monrovia’s so-called intellectual centers (Hatai Centers) and radio talk shows.
Ellen and her “failed policies” were the center of Jackson’s discourse prominently on Carey Street in Monrovia where swarms of unemployed youth gather each day to hear out the latest critic about Government. He was then unemployed was well.
Though he often contends that he left Liberty Party because of its lack of internal democratic culture, he has gone dead on his virulent censure of Government since he became an assistant minister at MICAT.
Ellen’s Victory or Liberia’s Time-Bomb
Since the waves of hard-core opposition defections to Sirleaf sparked off, there have been apprehensions and mixed reactions in the public realm over the meaning and effect of the situation.
There are some observers who think the move demonstrates spirit of reconciliation both from President Sirleaf and the defectors or former critics who want to beat their swords into ploughshares in the national interest.
Those who criticize the reconciliation policy must know from what is happening that Sirleaf is reaching out to the opposition, said University of Liberia Student Joshua Meslow, Jr.
“Instead of using brute force and coercion, Ellen is using dialogue and reason in forging good relations with her critics,” Meslow further said. “This is what Liberia needs right now and not the old time antagonistic postures of Liberian presidents.”
There are however other Liberians who think the situation is gradually drifting Liberian and its fledgling democracy into one party, and this could disastrous for peace and normalcy in the country.
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Original date published: 16 March 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201103160580.html?viewall=1