An electoral pact originally involved former Vice-President and UP leader Joseph Boakai Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) and Benoni Urey of the All Liberian Party (ALP) but unravelled over who should top the ticket and ended up in law suits (Dispatches 10/5/22 Opposition leader recruits Britain's Cherie Blair to clear his name)...
The chances aren't any better for more experienced opposition leaders like Alexander Cummings of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) Benoni Urey of the All Liberian Party (ALP) and former Vice-President Joseph Boakai leader of Johnson-Sirleaf's old party the Unity Party...
Former vice-president Joseph Nyumah Boakai who lost to Weah in 2017 is the presumed CPP leader supported by millionaire businessman Benoni Urey...
Others said that Weah under pressure from rising inflation and having failed to match his 'pro-poor' rhetoric with substantive action was trying to scapegoat the ex-President who faced blistering attacks from her own Unity Party during the elections allegedly for favouring Weah over her dour Vice-President Joseph Boakai (AC Vol 58 No 21 Weah sprints towards an open goal & Vol 59 No 2 Weah's known unknowns)...
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)...
