In a statement issued on Thursday, the NPP, through its national chairman, Maryland County Senator James P. Biney said the decision was unilaterally made by the Congress for Democratic Change; in total disregard to the other two constituent members, the NPP and the Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP). Simmering Internal WranglingIn 2017, the three parties CDC, NPP and LPDP formed a political marriage, the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC). The NPP, raising several qualms in the statement said, since victory was achieved under the stewardship of the Governing Council, the Congress for Democratic Change has rendered the Council ‘functionally immaterial’. “The Congress (of Democratic Change) has since assumed a unilateral role in determining the government’s architecture. Earlier this week, the party accused the Congress for Democratic Change of unilaterally deciding not to field a candidate in the pending by-election in Bomi.
