A political storm is brewing after Cllr. Kanio Bai Gbala publicly disowned a resignation letter that purportedly severed his ties with the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), branding the document a calculated forgery with potential criminal implications.
The disputed letter, dated February 6, 2026, surfaced in media reports on February 8—just one day before President Joseph Nyuma Boakai announced Gbala’s appointment to the Board of Trustees of Grand Gedeh University. The timing immediately fueled speculation that Gbala had abandoned the CDC over ideological differences and was aligning himself with the Boakai administration.
But Gbala has categorically rejected that narrative.
In a telephone interview on OK Morning Rush, he stated that he neither authored nor authorized the letter and that the signature attached to it was fraudulent. According to him, the document was produced without his consent and may have been assembled using publicly available materials, including past letterheads and scanned signatures from prior press releases.
He further criticized media institutions that published the story without seeking verification, arguing that the dissemination of an unverified document bearing a forged signature raises serious legal and ethical concerns. Gbala indicated that he is considering legal action to compel disclosure of the source behind the document.
The CDC has yet to issue a formal clarification regarding whether it received any official resignation from Gbala.
The episode unfolds against a backdrop of heightened political sensitivity. Gbala’s recent appointment to the university board had already sparked debate about his political trajectory. The emergence of the alleged resignation letter intensified questions about shifting allegiances within Liberia’s opposition landscape.
For now, Gbala maintains that he remains a committed member of the CDC and insists that the resignation report is entirely false. The controversy now centers on two unresolved issues: who authored the document, and how it entered the media ecosystem without authentication.
As legal threats loom and political tensions simmer, the case underscores broader concerns about misinformation, document verification standards, and the weaponization of forged communications in Liberia’s political arena.
