George Oppong Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) won such a resounding victory in Liberia's delayed run-off elections on 26 December that his opponent Joseph Nyumah Boakai overruled the hardliners in his party still trying to get the vote overturned and conceded defeat in the most graceful and inspiring speech of a long and tempestuous campaign...
Yet Johnson Sirleaf has distanced herself from this group and shown only lukewarm support for the UP candidate Joseph Boakai because some claim her son Robert Sirleaf has made a deal for a Senate seat with Weah (AC Vol 58 No 22 Weah walks up to the spot)...
His rival Joseph Boakai is far more of a known quantity having served as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Vice-President for twelve years...
Joseph Nyumah Boakai 72 in contrast has been entrenched in the Liberian elite for 40 years...
Such is the commanding lead built up by George Weah the star footballer turned politician in the first round of presidential elections on 10 October that his nearest rival Vice-President Joseph Nyumah Boakai will struggle to bring together enough votes from the other candidates to win in the second round...
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Vice-President Joseph Nyumah Boakai heading the governing Unity Party (UP) ticket promises to maintain the gains made since Liberia emerged from war with an economy crippled by debt and with an annual national budget of only $44...
Johnson-Sirleaf is determined to get her 70-year-old deputy Joseph Nyumah Boakai to succeed her (AC Vol 55 No 10 The men to follow Ellen)...
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- WEST AFRICA
Clarence Chris Massaquoi darkly hinted that Vice-President Joseph Boakai and Governance Commission Chairman Amos Sawyer a former Interim President might be questioned about their links to 'subversive' elements calling for a transitional government...
No woman has appeared on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's list of potential successors and she has said she wants the dour Joseph Boakai 69 to be the candidate of the governing Unity Party in 2017...
We hear he is likely to be the vice-presidential candidate on the ticket of the current Vice-President Joseph Boakai when he runs for President in 2017 (AC Vol 51 No 19 Eclipse of the son)...
Ngafuan who is 41 and highly ambitious is from Lofa County like the current Vice-President Joseph Boakai...