{"id":219534,"date":"2026-01-07T10:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-blessing-in-disguise-deputy-speaker-fallah-calls-cdc-suspension-political-liberation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:44:08","slug":"liberia-blessing-in-disguise-deputy-speaker-fallah-calls-cdc-suspension-political-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-blessing-in-disguise-deputy-speaker-fallah-calls-cdc-suspension-political-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Blessing in Disguise&#8217; &#8211; Deputy Speaker Fallah Calls CDC Suspension Political Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8211; Liberia&#8217;s Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. Fallah, has broken his silence on his suspension from the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), describing the move as a &#8220;blessing in disguise&#8221; that has freed him politically and personally after nearly two decades in the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking Monday in a rare, wide-ranging interview on ELBC Radio, the Lofa County lawmaker reflected on his December 2024 expulsion from the former ruling party, saying the decision&#8211;while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060366.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Liberia&#8217;s Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Thomas P. Fallah, has broken his silence on his suspension from the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), describing the move as a &#8220;blessing in disguise&#8221; that has freed him politically and personally after nearly two decades in the party. Speaking Monday in a rare, wide-ranging interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,12712,6137,14113,6012,23224,35103,8332,4712,1107,257,6378,254,9632,10829],"class_list":["post-219534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blessing","tag-calls","tag-cdc","tag-deputy","tag-disguise","tag-fallah","tag-liberation","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-suspension"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}