Varney Sherman Scolds ’97 Alliance Brokers
Sherman Scolds ’97 Alliance Brokers; Describes Them As Sycophants, Demagogues
Says [He] Is The Alternative
Liberia Action Party Standard bearer, Cllr. Varney Sherman approached his party convention with a different political standard, observers say.
He quietly played the game; he did not leave any stone unturned but touched every ounce and iota of strength to clinch the victory as the standard-bearer of one of Liberia’s indigenous political parties.
Varney won the standard-bearer position on a “white ballot” that is, he went unopposed.
Sherman’s Campaign Team: Making Scapegoats
Dr. Joseph Kortie, the man who earlier opted for the post soon backed off, claiming foul play prior to the convention. He alleged that party executives were after cash.
Whether his claims were correct or not, LAP did not bother but went ahead with its convention.
Following his semi-selection, Cllr. Varney Sherman addressed his partisans on things that lie ahead and how they can together confront them.
In his statement to partisans, he reflected on many burning issues of national significance: reasons of the founding of Liberia, the nightmare of the 1990 war, 1997 Alliance of Political Parties and those he believes played a major part in what we Liberia finds itself in today.
The LAP Standard-bearer did not lose sense of the 1997 Special Elections and its attending effects with reference to the Alliance of Political Parties on whose ticket he ran for the Senate.
Sherman informed the partisans that he did his best, putting in time, energy, financial and human resources and intellect, but things apparently went wrong.
Declining to repeat the conduct of the process that led to the failure of the alliance, he said the manner in which those who were part of the alliance conducted themselves led to “one of the protagonists in our civil war become the victor.”
“Even as we strived to organize the Alliance of Political Parties, a warlord, who now stands indicted by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and who brought so thick a dark cloud over our country, warned that the ego and ambition of certain political leaders will break the alliance up,” he recalled. “Those political demagogues were not noble enough to prove the warlord wrong.”
After almost seven years, he said, “Today, the same persons whose conducts landed the 1997 special elections in the hands of that warlord have come up again to ask the Liberian people fro their votes.”
In a rather enticing tone, Cllr. Sherman told partisans, “We stand here today to oppose them, we stand here today to challenge them, and we stand to offer ourselves and all that we have as an alternative to them.”
According to him, worse than those political demagogues of 1997, are those Liberians who he said collaborated and cooperated at the highest level of the destruction of our country and campaigned to place state power into the hands of the warlords.
“People who persisted and marveled in the destruction of our country, who enjoyed the abject poverty and misery that they subjected our people to have come.” Without naming them, he said they have come, “pretending to have changed with the passing of years, carrying the bible in one hand and perhaps in the other hand take cover with iron, begging the people to give them state power tomorrow. I stand here today to oppose, to challenge them and to offer ourselves as an alternative to them.”
According to him, these political demagogues have collaborated with the dictatorship of the 1980; a dictatorship whose very conducts of the affairs of the country made the soil fertile for rebellion and anarchy.
At the same time, he said Liberia was founded so that people of the black race will have the capacity to govern themselves, but noted that after 150 years of independence, this is not the case and that Liberians have failed miserably in the governance of this country.
Apart from that assertion, he conjectured that another reason Liberia was also founded is that “all men are borne equal with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
In spite of this, he said, “Yet through most period of our independence, politics of exclusion, marginalization and opportunism have been practiced in this country.”
He agreed that such level of madness has precipitated the presence debacle Liberians are still endeavoring to get over.
According to the LAP’s strongman, in spite of the horror and bloodshed characterized by continued misuse, abuse of power, nepotism and corruption, un-alienated greed and inordinate ambition of abuse, the situation remains the same and has now reduced our people to abject poverty, misery, degradation, imposition and sufferings of the magnitude many of us never dreamed of.
It is against this backdrop apparently he has thrown his hat into the race for the chief magistracy of the land. “We are here today to change things around, and we make a clarion call to all Liberians to join this enterprise of transforming our native land to a safer and better place for all Liberians,” he noted.
He also made reference to the nightmare most Liberians endured on the notorious bulk-challenge ship during the 1990 episode: “I remembered the days when Liberians trooped the notorious bulk-challenge. I will never forget that afternoon in Accra, Ghana in 1990 where we temporarily sought refuge.”
He said he felt the pains when Liberians were running from “depravity, destitution and suffering.”
Although faced with death threats at sea, he said, those Liberians on the Bulk-challenge mustered courage when they song the Lone Star Forever.
That nationalistic spirit, Cllr. Sherman noted, rekindled his faith in his people and hope for Liberia. “They rekindled my love in the final words of the refrain of our battle song, “Deserve it no never, and uphold it forever. Oh! Shout the Lone Start banner,” he asserted.
“From that moment,” he told dozens of partisans Saturday at the Unity Conference Center in Virginia, “I quietly vowed to myself that if there is anything that I can do singularly or in conjunction with other Liberians to ensure that never again would our people suffer so terribly and our country so utterly destroyed, I would.”
He said it is after this experience that he has decided to leave “the comfort of my successful law practice, get involved with politics by seeking elected office and help steer my country out of mess it had been plunged in by evil, rebellious and misguided sycophants of our times.”
He has called on all LAP partisans to go and take off their shoes, roll up their trousers and go into the villages to recruit and ensure that the party wins the elections.
Says [He] Is The Alternative
Liberia Action Party Standard bearer, Cllr. Varney Sherman approached his party convention with a different political standard, observers say.
He quietly played the game; he did not leave any stone unturned but touched every ounce and iota of strength to clinch the victory as the standard-bearer of one of Liberia’s indigenous political parties.
Varney won the standard-bearer position on a “white ballot” that is, he went unopposed.
Sherman’s Campaign Team: Making Scapegoats
Dr. Joseph Kortie, the man who earlier opted for the post soon backed off, claiming foul play prior to the convention. He alleged that party executives were after cash.
Whether his claims were correct or not, LAP did not bother but went ahead with its convention.
Following his semi-selection, Cllr. Varney Sherman addressed his partisans on things that lie ahead and how they can together confront them.
In his statement to partisans, he reflected on many burning issues of national significance: reasons of the founding of Liberia, the nightmare of the 1990 war, 1997 Alliance of Political Parties and those he believes played a major part in what we Liberia finds itself in today.
The LAP Standard-bearer did not lose sense of the 1997 Special Elections and its attending effects with reference to the Alliance of Political Parties on whose ticket he ran for the Senate.
Sherman informed the partisans that he did his best, putting in time, energy, financial and human resources and intellect, but things apparently went wrong.
Declining to repeat the conduct of the process that led to the failure of the alliance, he said the manner in which those who were part of the alliance conducted themselves led to “one of the protagonists in our civil war become the victor.”
“Even as we strived to organize the Alliance of Political Parties, a warlord, who now stands indicted by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and who brought so thick a dark cloud over our country, warned that the ego and ambition of certain political leaders will break the alliance up,” he recalled. “Those political demagogues were not noble enough to prove the warlord wrong.”
After almost seven years, he said, “Today, the same persons whose conducts landed the 1997 special elections in the hands of that warlord have come up again to ask the Liberian people fro their votes.”
In a rather enticing tone, Cllr. Sherman told partisans, “We stand here today to oppose them, we stand here today to challenge them, and we stand to offer ourselves and all that we have as an alternative to them.”
According to him, worse than those political demagogues of 1997, are those Liberians who he said collaborated and cooperated at the highest level of the destruction of our country and campaigned to place state power into the hands of the warlords.
“People who persisted and marveled in the destruction of our country, who enjoyed the abject poverty and misery that they subjected our people to have come.” Without naming them, he said they have come, “pretending to have changed with the passing of years, carrying the bible in one hand and perhaps in the other hand take cover with iron, begging the people to give them state power tomorrow. I stand here today to oppose, to challenge them and to offer ourselves as an alternative to them.”
According to him, these political demagogues have collaborated with the dictatorship of the 1980; a dictatorship whose very conducts of the affairs of the country made the soil fertile for rebellion and anarchy.
At the same time, he said Liberia was founded so that people of the black race will have the capacity to govern themselves, but noted that after 150 years of independence, this is not the case and that Liberians have failed miserably in the governance of this country.
Apart from that assertion, he conjectured that another reason Liberia was also founded is that “all men are borne equal with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
In spite of this, he said, “Yet through most period of our independence, politics of exclusion, marginalization and opportunism have been practiced in this country.”
He agreed that such level of madness has precipitated the presence debacle Liberians are still endeavoring to get over.
According to the LAP’s strongman, in spite of the horror and bloodshed characterized by continued misuse, abuse of power, nepotism and corruption, un-alienated greed and inordinate ambition of abuse, the situation remains the same and has now reduced our people to abject poverty, misery, degradation, imposition and sufferings of the magnitude many of us never dreamed of.
It is against this backdrop apparently he has thrown his hat into the race for the chief magistracy of the land. “We are here today to change things around, and we make a clarion call to all Liberians to join this enterprise of transforming our native land to a safer and better place for all Liberians,” he noted.
He also made reference to the nightmare most Liberians endured on the notorious bulk-challenge ship during the 1990 episode: “I remembered the days when Liberians trooped the notorious bulk-challenge. I will never forget that afternoon in Accra, Ghana in 1990 where we temporarily sought refuge.”
He said he felt the pains when Liberians were running from “depravity, destitution and suffering.”
Although faced with death threats at sea, he said, those Liberians on the Bulk-challenge mustered courage when they song the Lone Star Forever.
That nationalistic spirit, Cllr. Sherman noted, rekindled his faith in his people and hope for Liberia. “They rekindled my love in the final words of the refrain of our battle song, “Deserve it no never, and uphold it forever. Oh! Shout the Lone Start banner,” he asserted.
“From that moment,” he told dozens of partisans Saturday at the Unity Conference Center in Virginia, “I quietly vowed to myself that if there is anything that I can do singularly or in conjunction with other Liberians to ensure that never again would our people suffer so terribly and our country so utterly destroyed, I would.”
He said it is after this experience that he has decided to leave “the comfort of my successful law practice, get involved with politics by seeking elected office and help steer my country out of mess it had been plunged in by evil, rebellious and misguided sycophants of our times.”
He has called on all LAP partisans to go and take off their shoes, roll up their trousers and go into the villages to recruit and ensure that the party wins the elections.
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