Ex soccer star confident of winning Liberia’s presidential election
Monrovia — Former soccer star George Weah’s camp said on Wednesday he was set to win Liberia’s presidential election run-off against vice-president Joseph Boakai but Boakai’s camp said the contest was still too close to call ahead of the first official results. Liberians voted on Tuesday in a run-off for a successor to outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, meant to usher in the first democratic transfer of power in more than seven decades. Liberian election officials began collating the votes from Liberia’s 15 counties on Wednesday but a possible announcement of preliminary results in the afternoon did not materialise. They were now expected on Thursday, with final results due some time later. Unofficial partial results announced on local radio stations all showed Weah in the lead. Weah, the only African ever to be named Fifa World Player of the Year, lost to Johnson Sirleaf in a 2005 election as a political novice. He has served in Liberia’s senate since 2015. A senior Weah adv...
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