Weah, Cummings and Three Other Opposition Leaders Sign Pact to Hold Boakai Accountable
The Capitol Building in Monrovia, seat of Liberia's national legislature (file photo). Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Five opposition party leaders, including former president George Weah and Alexander Cummings, signed an agreement in Monrovia on September 27 pledging to jointly hold the Boakai administration accountable, while insisting the arrangement is not yet an electoral alliance.
Five Liberian opposition party leaders signed a joint agreement at Sinkor Palace on Tubman Boulevard in Monrovia on Sunday, September 27, 2026, pledging to "jointly and constructively hold the Boakai-Koung-Unity Party-led Government accountable for its stewardship of the Republic." The signatories were former president George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change, Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. of the Movement for Economic Empowerment, Jonathan A. Mason of the Union of Liberian Democrats Party, and Simeon C. M. Freeman of the Movement for Progressive Change.
The communiqué raises several specific grievances against the government, including what the signatories describe as a loss of territory to Guinea in Foya District, selective enforcement of anti-corruption and anti-drug efforts, defiance of Supreme Court rulings, and use of the country's new cybercrime law against government critics.
Among the group's demands are an investigation into a US$10 million construction project in Foya over alleged corruption, a probe into a US$8 million transfer from the Central Bank of Liberia to SIB Liberia, and an independent commission to examine two major drug seizures valued at US$19 million and US$317 million. The leaders also said they would resist any attempt to deregister political parties.
The five leaders were explicit that the arrangement is "not an electoral alliance," though they acknowledged it "may become one," and deliberately avoided any discussion of a joint candidacy for the 2029 presidential election. The pact follows an earlier round of talks in which five opposition parties said they had gone on record against the Boakai government and formed a joint technical committee ahead of 2029.
The Boakai administration has not yet issued a formal response to the communiqué or the specific allegations it raises. Liberia Today will follow up on any government reaction and on the demanded investigations as they develop.