The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) Political Leader, George Manneh Weah, made a ‘triumphant’ entry into the country on Monday, September 22, 2025, assuring partisans that they will build a new headquarters. Scores of citizens, including partisans of CDC, gathered at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) to welcome the former Liberian leader after spending a while out of the country, causing a tense security situation that nearly went out of control.
Disembarking from the airport terminals, Weah thanked his supporters and partisans for the beautiful welcoming ceremony while expressing disappointment in an altercation between the citizens and state security earlier in the day. While I was away, I watched television and saw that everyone who came here to usher us into our own was fighting. I see fighting; why are we fighting? I posted on my page that I am coming back home and urged everyone to be civil and make sure that there’s no trouble. This country belongs to all of us. I don’t think it was necessary today, but I’m glad to be back home.
The former president said he had travelled to Europe to ensure that his son, Timothy Weah, secured a new football contract with Olympique Marseille, which was successful, and was not in the country to make sure that the CDC gets a new party headquarters.
“To all of my fans and CDCians, what happened to us…don’t worry! George Manneh Weah is here. We’re going to restore; we are going to rebuild our party headquarters, and that’s our goal and our mission. Our mission is not to come and block the airport and police-fighting. No! Leave them alone. We came to raise this party for our people; we were able to do that, and we are still able to sustain the political fight,” the former president said.
It can be recalled that in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 23, 2025, sheriffs, accompanied by heavily armed policemen, were seen enforcing an eviction order using earth-moving equipment to destroy structures hosting the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), thereby making the main opposition party homeless.
The eviction of CDC from their Congo Town headquarters followed months of legal battle over ownership of the property. An August 13, 2025 ruling by the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court, awarded the 4.23-acre compound near Bernard’s Beach to the Intestate Estate of Martha Stubblefield Bernard. Judge George W. Smith ruled that the CDC had no legal claim to the property after reviewing deeds and boundaries, directing the Montserrado County Sheriff to carry out the eviction.
