Two vacancies in the Senate were created by the election of Senators George Weah of Montserrado County as President and Jewel Howard Taylor of Bong County as Vice President, respectively. There were mounting speculations in many quarters in the county that Dr. Tokpa was holding back his plans to contest the by-election due to his wife’s illness. “Spreading such falsehood about me and my ailing wife will not help anyone nor discourage the people of Bong from electing who they feel can competently represent them in the Senate,” Dr. Tokpa said. Dr.Tokpa came second in the 2014 special senatorial election held in the county, which was won by Senator Jewel Howard Taylor. Dr. Tokpa has an impeccable record for working in the interest of the county, “and I think, when elected, the county will benefit in terms of both infrastructure and human resource development,” another young man said.

Source: Daily Observer January 11, 2018 02:26 UTC