Eugene Nagbe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/eugene-nagbe/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Eugene Nagbe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/eugene-nagbe/ 32 32 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf rejects expulsion by her party https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/ellen-johnson-sirleaf-rejects-expulsion-party/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/ellen-johnson-sirleaf-rejects-expulsion-party/ Outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf rejects her expulsion from Liberia’s ruling Unity Party. She says she’ll appeal the decision taken by a fraction of the party’s executive committee. Africa’s first elected woman president was expelled from the party for allegedly not supporting her deputy Joseph Boakai in the election to succeed her. That contest was […]

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]]> Outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf rejects her expulsion from Liberia’s ruling Unity Party.

She says she’ll appeal the decision taken by a fraction of the party’s executive committee.

Africa’s first elected woman president was expelled from the party for allegedly not supporting her deputy Joseph Boakai in the election to succeed her.

That contest was won by former football star George Weah who will be inaugurated later this month.

Weah was beaten by the 75-year old she won her second term six years ago.

Information Minister Eugene Nagbe says the Unity Party decision at the weekend was unconstitutional.

Accordingly Johnson Sirleaf’s expulsion is illegal.

This has been the first peaceful transition of power in Liberia since 1944.

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