Weah's running mate Senator Jewel Taylor is also seen as competent although many are uneasy about her relationship with her former husband the convicted war criminal Charles Taylor...
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His flirtation with convicted war criminal Charles Taylor – with whose National Patriotic Party he formed a coalition and whose ex-wife Jewel Taylor is his running mate – has not endeared him to many in Liberia or abroad (AC Vol 58 No 4 Taylor tries to sway vote & Vol 55 No 10 The men to follow Ellen)...
Announced in early November the three parties in the alliance are the Congress for Democratic Change led by its founder George Weah the former football star and veteran presidential campaigner; the National Patriotic Party (NPP) founded by Taylor and now led by his former wife Jewel Howard-Taylor; and the recently formed Liberia People's Democratic Party (LPDP) led by the disgraced former Speaker of the House of Representatives Alex Tyler...
Weah is standing for president and Jewel Taylor for vice-president...
Taylor's NPP is in a coalition with the Congress for Democratic Change which is seeking to elect former football star George Weah as President with Jewel Taylor Taylor's former wife standing as Vice-President...
Former President Charles Taylor who is serving a life sentence in the UK after conviction of crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone has past links to Tyler his former wife and current Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor Charles Brumskine (a lawyer and close advisor of Taylor's) and Benoni Urey a candidate who may stand a reasonable chance in a possible run-off against either Boakai or Weah...
Dew Tuan Wreh Mayson whose alliance of opposition parties the National Democratic Coalition (NDC) is dominated by former leaders of Taylor’s National Patriotic Party is undecided on whom to select as his running mate but most of his supporters favour Taylor’s former wife Jewel Howard-Taylor who is now a Senator for Bong (AC Vol 52 No 1 Johnson Sirleaf stands on her record)...
The NDC – sometimes known as the ‘Billionaires’ Club’ – includes figures from the Taylor era including its head Lewis Brown Cyril Allen Taylor’s Foreign Minister and National Security Advisor and Jewel Howard-Taylor Taylor’s wife until he divorced her in 2004 after he was forced into exile...
She has tried to rise above politics but was stung when Charles Taylor's ex-wife Bong County Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor expressed regret for having supported the President's campaign...
Exiled warlord Charles Taylor and Jewel Howard-Taylor have divorced paving the way for a greater public role for the popular Jewel...
Nigeria will give him up only if the new government asks; Johnson-Sirleaf whose campaign was supported by Taylor's wife Jewel Howard-Taylor insists the Court is nothing to do with Liberia...
