When the military regime of Samuel Doe fraudulently excluded the LPP from the 1985 election the party joined forces with the Liberian Action Party (LAP)...
The UPP is often blamed for the rice riots which in 1979-80 brought down the True Whig government and opened the way to the dictatorship of Samuel Doe...
• The New Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) was founded to support Samuel Doe's presidential campaign in 1985 and is associated with Doe's Krahn people...
Under the late President Samuel Doe Krahns dominated the government and especially the armed forces; Krahn officers and men are still much in evidence in Hezekiah Bowen's Armed Forces of Liberia...