The Mandate is delivered!! The December 20, 2014 special senatorial elections results will usher in a new Senior Senator in Gbarpolu County. The results changed the ways that people of Gbarpolu County are going to feel, listen, do things politically and relate to one another. Everyone I talked to during the political campaign expressed concern that the County was leaning toward a strange political era. Their political friendship was being shaped by either political rhetoric or fallacies but some admitted that reality would set in after casing the ballots. The feelings expressed were as divided as polling stations across the county. One thing voters were very passionate and united about was “change”. Subjects like road construction and development were discussed in commercial vehicles, market places, front and back porches, farm roads and drinking spots around the county. The idea that the campaign was very peaceful show that the electorates had something to contribute to the rest of the world by campaigning peacefully and hoping for a violent free transparent elections meant a historic shift not only in Gbarpolu County politics but Liberia as a whole. For Gbarpolu County, the December 20, 2014 special senatorial election marked a transcending moment of one of the many obstacles confronting the County. The ghost of painful political memories stand tall whilst political pond its pen their predictions in the county. The coming years are likely to be suspicious for political actions and countywide renaissance as sign by the electorates response to the elections results. In my opinion and political view, the time has come for Gbarpolu County to force the hands of history for its own good. The outcome and electorates response to the December 20, 2014 special sanatoria elections must give Gbarpolu County a pause and reasons to re-evaluate its political future, monitored the next years to come and strategize the next course of political actions. As to the orderliness, fairness, credibility and transparency of the electoral process, it was in this case, unlike other pre-war instances, very objective. To underline the fairness and transparency of the process, the ruling Unity Party, in Gbarpolu County, lost her seat. True enough, if the process was compared to the 1985 and 2007 undertakings which were fraught with overt and gross irregularities, the results would be far different. As the results from different polling places pulled in, It is now clear that the dignified people of Gbarpolu have spoken through the ballot box. What I m quickly saying to myself is “it would be a dreadful mistake to move on to doing business as usual without closely looking at events and analyzing the anger that brought about the 2011 political change in Gbarpolu County”. Frankly, this time should be used for alternative county wide introspection; not a moment for cross and unbridled triumphalism despite the deep political divide in the County. The next nine years will provide the new senior Senator of Gbarpolu County the opportunity to move the county in the direction he portrayed during his political campaign. nine years may sound like a century but in the twinkle of an eye, we will be back to the ballot box to be evaluated for our campaign promises and to be politically rewarded. If the incoming Senior Senator fail to address the obvious and not-so-obvious pitfalls on which his campaign was based, he too should be prepared for similar and even more dissembling political actions against him at the ballot box comes the next elections.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:25:09 +0000
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