Presumptive Senator-elect for Gbarpolu County, Botoe Kanneh, expresses gratitude
Botoe Kanneh, Gbarpolu County’s presumptive Senator-elect, has hailed women rights advocates for her victory among nine male political candidates if the National Elections Commission’s final result will render her the victory.
Since former President Charles Taylor established the county, Madam Kanneh is the first female to contest in an election to become a presumed winner after contentious electoral disputes that led to the re-run of the process.
Madam Kanneh in an interview told
Daily Observer, “I could have fallen prey for the second time had it not been for those women who stood up to ensure that my victory comes to pass.”
Liberia: Gbarpolu’s Only Female Senatorial Candidate Goes Through Thick and Thin as She Edges Being Declared Winner
Liberia: Gbarpolu’s Only Female Senatorial Candidate Goes Through Thick and Thin as She Edges Being Declared Winner
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Monrovia – Amid several gridlocks that came her way – from the violence meted against her through the use of the “Country Devil to detention and seizure of dozens of her supporters’ voting cards” – Gbarpolu County only female senatorial candidate, Botoe Kanneh is set to be declared winner of the county’s acrimonious and hotly contested senatorial race.
However, a stay order placed on all electoral processes in Gbarpolu County by Justice-in-Chambers, Sie-A- neh Youh appears to be the latest obstacle stopping Kanneh from being declared the winner.
Senatorial candidate, Gbarpolu District #1 Rep. Alfred Koiwood
Justices of the Supreme Court will gather in a joint chamber on today, January 8, 2021 to hear arguments into the merit and demerit of a complaint of election irregularities and fraud filed by the Senatorial Candidate of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Alfred Koiwood, who is the current the Representative of District #1 in Gbarpolu County.
Rep. Koiwood complained against the National Election Commission’s ( NEC) handling of the December 8, 2020 special senatorial election in the county and asked the court to place a stay order on the January 7, re-run of election in the Nomodatonau Town, where it was alleged that the Paramount Chief of the town, McGill Wleh, with support from some residents, seized ballot boxes and halted the election from taking place due to what he called “Illegal attempts” by aliens to vote in that part of the country.
Botoe Kanneh, Senatorial Candidate, Gbarpolu County
Senatorial candidate Botoe Kanneh has been projected to win Gbarpolu County as polling watchers complete counting of ballot papers from the rerun election in Nomodatanau.
Kanneh, before the rerun election in Gbarpolu County electoral district 3, had been in the lead with 4,767 electoral votes, while her closest rival, Rep. Alfred Koiwood of the ruling Coalition for Democracy Change, had 4,281 votes from the 139 polling places out 144, according to data from the National Election Commission.
Though Kanneh’s lead against Rep. Koiwood has been slightly reduced, she is still expected to beat Rep. Koiwood, whose votes in the January 7, 2021 re-run were apparently not sufficient to surpass the only female candidate in the race. Preliminary results from Nomodatanau shows that Kanneh, who ran as an independent candidate, obtained a total of 188 votes while Koiwood got 217.
The fact that one of these two high levels one Ex-press, have debacles with the Liberian people to explain, makes one having served her term should exile until called, while the present President of Liberia has 3 more years to face impeachment outbreak by the emerging Legislature or justify his compliance to connive another slave trade attempt to change the Liberian constitution. Are they really whole hearted Liberians? The ” none of these” vote were the actual Liberians who recently took back their constitutional provisions from those NO vs YES votes that almost de – constituted our right to be Liberians, ” people of negro descends”, probably to satisfy their personal pockets and pocket books of greed and lust for sick power or wealth. Those who ignited this dichotomy will have to be ousted by the people because it almost put torch unwanted violence of the last civil upheaval.. We must continue to reinstitute the healthy nation of 1847. Who are the owners of the Liberia on