A lower turn out due to voters' difficulties in getting to the polls would favour the incumbent President George Manneh Oppong Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and his running mate Vice-President Jewel Howard-Taylor ex-wife of jailed warlord Charles Taylor...
Bong County the fiefdom of another familiar face Weah's running mate Vice-President Jewel Howard-Taylor also delivered weaker-than-expected results for the President in a region where he swept the board in 2017...
Seeing how successful that was has encouraged the coalition members to repeat the exercise including NPP leader (and Taylor's ex-wife) Vice-President Jewel Howard Taylor...
Taylor's ex-wife Jewel Howard-Taylor is Vice-President under President George Weah and heads the National Patriotic Party (NPP) which began its life as the political arm of her ex-husband's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and is part of the ruling coalition (AC Vol 61 No 5 George Weah at bay)...
Jewel fights backComplicating matters further are reports of a deepening rift between Weah and his Vice-President the highly influential ex-wife of former president Charles Taylor Jewel Howard-Taylor...
Members of the National Patriotic Party led formerly by Taylor and now by his ex-wife Jewel Howard-Taylor are a crucial component of Weah's victorious coalition and she now serves as Vice-President...
Shortly afterwards the US Embassy in Monrovia refused to grant a visa to Vice-President Jewel Taylor the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor who is serving a 50-year sentence in Britain for war crimes and crimes against humanity and remains his most high-profile supporter in Liberia...
Of equal concern was Weah's choice of running mate: Jewel Howard-Taylor the ex-wife of jailed war criminal Charles Taylor...
Weah made Jewel Howard-Taylor Charles Taylor's ex-wife his running mate in order to benefit from residual support for the former Liberian leader (AC Vol 58 No 4 Taylor tries to sway vote)...
Others will be Bong County where Weah's running mate the convicted and imprisoned warlord Charles Taylor's former wife Jewel Taylor is a Senator...
