Liberia: Presidential Candidates Scramble Over Bong County for 2017 Victory

Gbarnga — There is a growing perception among political parties and their followers that the one who puts up the biggest crowd at rallies has the upper hand and the political strength to accumulate the highest number of votes at the poll.

In the most populous Monsterrado County with registered voter of 777503, the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) claimed it paraded two million people with fanatics of the trumpeting pre-mature victory slogans. The crowd politics has now shifted to Bong County, a place believed to be leaning towards vice president and standard bearer of Unity Party Joseph Boakai. Every visit by VP Boakai and his running mate J. Emmanuel Nuquay witnessed huge turnouts. Again, when Alternative National Congress of Alexander Cummings and his running mate Jeremiah Sulunteh, a native of Bong County led the party to Bong County, it was the same story, mammoth crowd.

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