It is now clear that Former World’s Best Footballer, George Weah, 51, is poised to win Liberia’s debatable presidential election held on Tuesday.
National Election Commission (NEC) introduced on Thursday night that Weah has acquired 61% over his rival, Vice President Joseph Boakai of the Ruling Unity Party, who received 39.5%. The Commission stated it has received 98.1% results from all 5,390 polling units around the country.
The margin among Weah who’s a sitting Senator in Liberia and Vice President Joseph Boakai is unrecoverable according to our correspondent in Monrovia. Weah acquired a complete of 729, 023 votes while his opponent, Boakai only gained 451,088 votes.
If Weah is eventually declared the 25th President of Liberia, he would be triumphant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
He lost to Ms. Sirleaf in 2005 run-off election and received a senatorial seat for the most populated county of Liberia, Montserrado.
His Vice Candidate, Jewel Taylor is the previous spouse of jailed President Charles Taylor.
Taylor is accused of getting ties along with her former husband who is said to have interfered with the Liberian elections from the beginning of electioneering activities.