LFA Election Under Threat!

With less than two months to the Liberia Football Association elections, the President of the Association Izetta Wesley has renewed her devoted dream of thwarting the election process.

Firm report radiating from the local football house says Madam Wesley is frantically carving means to burst into flames her final attack on the LFA elections, which is set for March 21, 2010.

According to the well-placed source, name withheld due to possible reprisal from the whims and caprices of Madam Wesley, says the LFA president is working along with the LFA Secretarial and others Executive Committee members to unleashed the tactics.

According to the source, the action would have hatched Thursday, a day Madam Wesley attempted to adjourn the elections for time indefinite. However, the source added, she was advised by her cohorts to slow down; fearing public outcry would overwhelming her aim.

Meanwhile, several football enthusiasts and LFA stakeholders as well have threatened grave consequences should Madam Wesley tempers with the election date. The sports lovers, speaking on the choice of anonymity, say Wesley should land others right to the poll as done to her in past elections or she would face an embarrassing wrath.

The LFA president stands accused of having the strong wish of attending the pending world cup finals in South Africa as president and the way around that is to bypass election since she has already concluded that ascendancy to power has proven no impact on the development and promotion of the Liberian game.

In a related development, the Secretarial of the LFA probably out of cruelty or mere ignorance is yet to comment on the pending elections of the football house, as a matter of statutory mandate.

The last congress of the LFA held September last year at the ATS sanctioned elections of president, vice presidents and executive committee members at the next congress bound for March 21, 2010.

According to the LFA statute bordering election- Article X, “the general secretariat shall notify the Members of the names of the proposed candidates at least two months before the date of the Congress”. With the new election set for March this year, the LFA secretary is falling short of its statutory mandate by its tight-lip posture.

Much more to the functions of the LFA secretarial, Article XXXIII, Section 10.5 of the statue, states: “the General Secretary shall be responsible to ensure the implementation of all decisions of the Executive Committee, Standing and Ad-hoc Committees of the LFA”. This facet of the law should place the secretarial in a better position to act now, without delay to liberate itself from its existing surrogate state of affairs.

Trend of recent events speak of frantic efforts by some LFA executives including the president Izzeta Wesley to thwart the date of election. Madam Wesley and her handpick of cronies have ever since dragged processes leading to the hosting of the March election, with rumors that she wants to hang on to power until after Africa’s maiden World Cup Finals in South Africa.

It can be recalled the acting Secretary General of the LFA implicitly on the advice of the president, misrepresented decisions of the Executive Committee especially on the issue of the revised statute. 

The recent congress held at the ATS saw the delegates mandating the LFA to stage a mini congress for the purpose of adopting the revised statute and an audit report of the financial records of the LFA by November 2009. The secretarial and President Wesley and her band of hardliners have rudely and surreptitiously undermined this mandate, from the tiniest and infinitesimal of thoughts.

Deliberately, on several occasions, the LFA secretary sliced decisions of the EC relating the statute, sending half-baked information to FIFA. A case in point is the statute, which FIFA has almost giving up on following deliberate and repeated distortions of the document by the secretarial, acting on direct instruction of president Wesley.

Meanwhile, the so call reliance for the LFA president and others for the postponement of the pending elections-that the adoption of the revised statute is foremost prerequisite to the March election date-has met rock bottom with the discovery of an already congress approved document adopting every smidgen of issue raised in the current controversial revised statute. According to the document, the 2007 LFA regular congress passed on all the contentious issues including the annulment of voting rights for the sub committees and sub associations. Thus, adoption of the same issues twice is good but not a must or a gateway to the elections.