EJS Rebukes CDC HQ Donation Rumors. “CDC Never Reached Out to Me; they have no reason to call me for supports” She Says

MONROVIA – The Liberian political public burst into uproars in the last few days when rumor mill had it that former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf provided a handsome donation towards the headline-making efforts by former ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) to construct its new headquarters. The CDC’s iconic headquarters was invaded and demolished in the aftermath of a controversial legal suit, and there has been quite a public disquiet amongst Liberians. That’s why when the anonymous sources began running with the rumor that the former president provided US$15,000 and 1000 bags of cement, the news spread like wild fire in the dry season. But before sun got set on the rumors, the former president took to the media, and rather rowdily discounted the supposed CDC headquarters donation. The Analyst reports.   

Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fondly widely known as ‘the Maradona of Liberia Politics’, has angrily responded to rumors linking her to making a contribution—some had said she pledged—US$15,000 and 1,000 bags of cement towards the building of new headquarters for the erstwhile ruling CDC.

Liberia’s social media rumor mill had indicated that the former president made the donation to help the CDC have a headquarters of its own after it was forcefully taken from its iconic headquarters of nearly two decades.

During a seemingly special interview with OK FM’s Julius Jeh, who asked the former President about “rumors being spread on social media in quit a various ways that you are allegedly giving some support to the opposition CDC, in term of both financial and material US$15000 and some thousand bags of cement for their new headquarters project,” the president sounded particularly raged.

She responded: “Julius, I am glad that you said allegedly. I am here on the farm; being here for three days and didn’t even know what’s going on in the city, but let me say this in respond: Those people who put those crap, those nonsenses on social media, they must just love my name. They must just love me and just keep their mouth on me and what they have just said. It is damn stupid.”

The former president continued: “Anybody who put that crap out there, I say again they are dawn stupid. Please repeat it for me and put it just as I say it. Put it in the media and let everybody hear it just as is then maybe they will stop these damn lies.”

Further pressed by the interviewer if she was ever reached by the former ruling CDC for any support to the party, she retorted: “Never! Never! No CDC person has reached me for support; they have no reason to call me for supports.”

She continued “I’m busy with many things I do—my Center, my farm, and other things. I am out of their damn politics. That’s why the politics here is damn terrible; because it’s so sensational, you know. It just make people so tire. People want to do the good things for the country, they want to promote the good part of the country, to be supportive to all the agencies of government, to support the president and everything he does, if it’s in the interest of the country and every day somebody come out with nonsense or the other.   “It’s so sickening. I just wish Liberian people will just get to work; they are so bore with laziness; that’s why they can’t work. Just tell it the way it is, Julius. Let them know exactly how I feel. Yes, I am working so hard and all they do is to create problem with people, creating tension in the country, trying to divide people when we trying to promote reconciliation, and they creating all kinds of things to cause trouble. Put my response on any way you want put it; play it all over the country; put it on social media—put it on Facebook; put it on Instagram, and put it everywhere