With 61.5% of votes cast, African football legend, George Weah, is set to become the 25th President of Liberia following confirmation of his much-touted victory by the National Elections Commission.
\nHe beat the country\u2019s vice president, Joseph Boakai, who got 38.5% of votes.
\nHis victory comes as former President Goodluck Jonathan, who is co-leading the National Democratic Institute Election Observer group to the Liberian Presidential election run-off election, and other leaders of the delegation have acclaimed the Boxing Day polls as peaceful, orderly, and well-organized.
\nThe National Democratic Institute (NDI) made this known Thursday in its preliminary statement issued in Monrovia on the December 26, Presidential run-off.
\nThe delegation however stressed that official election results were not yet complete, and called on \u201cLiberian political parties and candidates to cooperate in good faith with the National Elections Commission and for the results to be expeditiously released.\u201d
\nSpeaking of his experienced on the field on voting day, former President Jonathan said: \u201cI am proud of Liberians, who have come from crisis to democracy and have shown themselves to be a model of peace
\nand stability in the region. Democracy goes beyond election day, and if Liberia succeeds, West Africa succeeds, Africa succeeds, and the world succeeds.”
\nSpeaking in the same vein, Kosovo\u2019s former President Atifete Jahjaga, said: \u201cThe NDI delegation would like to congratulate the people of Liberia for exercising their right to vote and for making a historic step towards the consolidation of democracy in their country. It is my hope that the positive trends that we have observed during this
\nelection will be sustained and further improved during future elections.\u201d
\nIn noting that voting was peaceful, orderly and well-organized as executed by trained polling officials, the preliminary statement also highlighted \u201caspects of voter participation, election administration, women and youth participation and security.\u201d
\nThe NDI Liberia international election observer delegation included 36 political and civic leaders, elections experts and regional specialists from 18 countries across Africa, Europe and North America.
\nThe delegation’s leadership was as follows: Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former President of Nigeria; Atifete Jahjaga, former President of Kosovo; Hanna Tetteh, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana; and Dr. Christopher Fomunyoh, Regional Director, NDI.
\nThe delegation\u2019s preliminary statement provides recommendations to the
\ngovernment of Liberia, the National Elections Commission, political parties and candidates, security forces, civil society, the media, the international community, as well as other stakeholders. The recommendations focus on reviewing legal framework, communicating timely and accurate information, promoting peace, improving women\u2019s participation and continuing to engage citizens in the electoral
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With 61.5% of votes cast, African football legend, George Weah, is set to become the 25th President of Liberia following confirmation of his much-touted victory by the National Elections Commission. He beat the country\u2019s vice president, Joseph Boakai, who got 38.5% of votes. His victory comes as former President Goodluck Jonathan, who is co-leading the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}