Gabriel Baccus Matthews

Gabriel Bacchus Matthews (1948 - Satumba 7, 2007) ɗan siyasan Laberiya ne. Ana yi masa kallon daya daga cikin jagororin samar da tsarin jam'iyyu da yawa a Laberiya, wanda jam'iyyar True Whig ta dade tana mamayewa. Ya kafa jam'iyyar Progressive Alliance of Laberiya (PAL) a shekarar 1975, jam'iyyar adawa ta farko tun bayan rugujewar jam'iyyar Republican a shekarun 1870.

Jam'iyyar Progressive People Party (PPP) ce ta gaje ta, daga baya kuma jam'iyyar United People's Party. Sau biyu Matthews ya zama Ministan Harkokin Waje na Laberiya, a karkashin Samuel K. Doe (1980-1981) sannan kuma a karkashin Amos Sawyer (1990-93).

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Sa’ad da yake matashi, Matthews ya shiga ƙungiyar masu adawa da Shugaba William R. Tolbert. Ya yi aiki don ƙirƙirar jam'iyyar adawa, kamar yadda True Whig Party ta shafe fiye da shekaru 100 tana mulki. A shekarar 1975 shi da wasu da dama daga cikin 'yan kasar Laberiya suka kafa jam'iyyar Progressive Alliance of Laberiya (PAL), jam'iyyar adawa ta farko da aka amince da ita cikin shekaru da dama.

Bayan juyin mulkin Afrilu 1980 wanda aka hambarar da Tolbert kuma Samuel K. Doe ya hau kan karagar mulki, an nada Matthews a matsayin Ministan Harkokin Waje a karon farko. Matthews yayi aiki a matsayin Ministan Harkokin Waje har zuwa 1981. Daga baya ya kasa samun tagomashi tare da Doe, yana da burin kansa na zama Shugaban kasa kuma yana jin ya fi Doe da sauran membobin PRC.

Matthews ya sami nasarar sake fasalin jam'iyyar a matsayin jam'iyyar Progressive People's Party (PPP) da kuma amincewa da doka.

Ta sake tsarawa a matsayin Jam'iyyar Jama'ar Jama'a (UPP). A cikin shekarun 1980, Matthews ya kasance babban dan siyasan adawa a Laberiya. Roland Trobeh ya bayyana shi a matsayin uban dimokradiyyar jam'iyyu da yawa a kasar.

Bayan mutuwar Doe, a cikin 1990, an sake nada Matthews a matsayin Ministan Harkokin Waje, yana aiki a karkashin Shugaba Amos Sawyer. Ya taka rawar gani wajen kawo rundunar wanzar da zaman lafiya ta ECOMOG zuwa Laberiya. Ya kasance ministan harkokin wajen kasar har zuwa shekarar 1993, lokacin da aka maye gurbinsa a wani garambawul na majalisar ministoci.

A karshen yakin basasa, Matthews ya tsaya a matsayin dan takarar jam'iyyar United People's Party a zaben shugaban kasa na 1997.

A cikin 2005, Matthews ya bayyana goyon bayansa ga George Weah a zaben shugaban kasa na 2005.

Ya koya wa matasa da yawa yadda za su gabatar da shawarwarin da ba na siyasa ba ta amfani da kwarewar da ya samu ta hanyar zamantakewa, siyasa na cibiyoyin zamantakewa. Wasu daga cikin dalibansa sun hada da: Frank Awode, mai fafutukar kare hakkin yara na Laberiya, Trokon Monghah, kuma jerin suna ci gaba.

Da yake sanin cewa ba shi da lafiya, wasu ’yan siyasa kuma suka ƙi shi, Matthews ya gaya wa matarsa, a lokacin a Amurka, ta roƙi Monsignor Father Robert Tikpor na Cocin Katolika ya ba da godiyarsa. An dakatar da Matthews daga Cocin Baptist Baptist na gidansa tun lokacin da yake adawa da Shugaba Tolbert. Ya mutu a ranar 7 ga Satumba, 2007, bayan ɗan gajeren rashin lafiya.

 Bayanan da aka ambata 

Rukuni:Matattun 2007
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1948