Congrats to him.....
Liberian
opposition politician and former football star George Weah won a
landslide victory in Senate elections in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, official
results showed on Sunday, according to AFP.
Weah , who in 1995 became the first and
only African yet to win the Ballon d’Or as European footballer of the
year and who played for AC Milan, Paris Saint Germain and Monaco,
trounced his rival Robert Sirleaf, the son of Liberian President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf.
Weah got 78 per cent of the vote in
Montserrado county in the December 20 poll to fill half the seats of the
Senate. Turnout was around 25 per cent, according to the national
election commission.
The election was originally due to be held in October but was postponed over the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
Sirleaf, who was running as an independent, registered 10.8 percent of the vote.
Montserrado county, in northwestern
Liberia, is the West African country’s most populous region and home to
nearly a third of its population of four million.
Liberia tops the number of Ebola deaths
in the current outbreak with 3,384 fatalities, but it has seen a clear
decrease of new transmissions in the past month.
Ebola has killed 7,693 people, almost all of them in the west African epicentres of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Weah, a popular figure in Liberia since
his days as a deadly centre-forward, won the first round of the 2005
presidential election, but lost the runoff to Johnson Sirleaf. A 2011
election campaign was also unsuccessful.
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