{"id":387134,"date":"2017-12-28T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=387134"},"modified":"2017-12-28T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:49:11","slug":"george-weah-set-win-liberia-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/george-weah-set-win-liberia-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"George Weah set to win Liberia presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former footballer George Weah is set to become Liberia’s president following Tuesday’s run-off election.<\/p>\n
The National Elections Commission said that with 98.1% of ballots counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5% of the vote.<\/p>\n
Opponent Joseph Boakai is far behind with 38.5%.<\/p>\n
He will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female president. She defeated Mr Weah in the presidential election run-off in 2005, after the end of a brutal civil war.<\/p>\n
Mr Weah, 51, won the first round in October with 38.4% of the vote, compared with the 28.8% of Mr Boakai, 73. His failure to secure an outright majority forced a run-off.<\/p>\n
Mr Weah played for a string of football clubs, including AC Milan and Paris St-Germain, and is the only African footballer to have won Fifa World Player of the Year and the coveted Ballon D’Or, in 1995.<\/p>\n
He entered politics after his retirement in 2002 and is currently a senator in Liberia’s parliament.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former footballer George Weah is set to become Liberia’s president following Tuesday’s run-off election. The National Elections Commission said that with 98.1% of ballots counted, Mr Weah had won 61.5% of the vote. Opponent Joseph Boakai is far behind with 38.5%. He will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female president. She defeated Mr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":387135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,11],"tags":[726,597],"yoast_head":"\n