Kokoyah District, Bong County - During this very month in 2011 while contesting for the senatorial seat, Henry Yallah was being branded as "an underdog" in a race that comprised former Bong County superintendent Ranney Jackson, former Forestry Development Authority lawyer Cllr. Benedict Sagbeh and Cuttington University's former accountant Augustus Flomo.
Yallah, a former student leader in Bong and chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NDC), obtained 29,804 votes, becoming the youngest senator in the history of the county.
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