EXECUTIVE MANSION,MONROVIA,LIBERIA:SEAT OF POWER IN THE NATION
MONROVIA’S BIGGEST JOB UP FOR GRABS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU
The race for who becomes the next elected President of the
Republic of Liberia will soon begin.
Already feelers suggests that the richest Liberian alive ,Mr
Benoni Urey ,the present Vice President of Liberia ,Mr Joseph Boakai also said
to be in the race to replace the incumbent,Mrs Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf
In an interview with the News Office Desk of Paedia Express
Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria ,an impeccable source while appraising the
situation in Liberia noted that the elections will be tough.
It was discovered that former war lordand now a Senator
,Prince Yormie Johnson will again be a kingmaker who will determine who stays
in the executive mansion in Monrovia, Liberia.
He said that Mr
Benoni Urey ,a highly respected business mogul in Liberia was interested in
contesting for the coveted position .
He explained that except the current Vice President of
Liberia is made to replace his boss then Mrs Johnson- Sirleaf will face a lot
of persecution after leaving public office.
He assured that former warlord ,Prince Yormie Johanson who
hails from the most electorally proficient state called Nimba county and now a
Senator was rooting for the current Vice President as he already knows that the
chances of his winning was very remote.
He revealed of efforts being made at the highest level in Liberian politics to
bring in somebody of the political weight of the Right Honourable Rotimi
Chibuike Amaechi to deliver lectures and
speeches on democratization in Africa.
He Pointed out that when Former Governor of Rivers state is
invited to Monrovia ,Liberia very soon he is expected to present case studies
on the evil effects of tribal and religious politics.
According to the source ,the new diplomatic feelings Monrovia,Liberia now was how to strengthen the
existing ties with Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari due to the nations
position in Africa and global politics .
The Liberian elections which should hold by October,2017
.when the official results of the Liberian National Election Commission Was released
in 2011,Prince Yormie Johnson ,Presidential Candidate of the National Union for
Democratic Progress[N.U.D.P.]suddenly became a kingmaker.
Johnson,a former warlord who was filmed watching his
fighters torture Late President Samuel Doe to death during the nation’s civil
war was third with a vote of 11.6percent in the first round of the 2011
elections leading to a second round as the two topmost candidates could not win
at the first ballot.
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