As you go to the polling booths tomorrow, as your President, I ask but a few things of you." Statement by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia - On the Eve of Liberia’s Presidential and Legislative ElectionsOctober 9, 2017My Fellow Liberians,Tomorrow, 10 October, 2017, you will go to the polls to elect a new President, and 73 members of our national legislature. It is an historic day for our nation, and for the consolidation of Liberia’s young democracy. For the first time in three generations, we will be transferring Presidential authority, democratically, and peacefully, from one elected leader to another. Your loyalty is to your family, your children, and your children’s children, and their children.

Source: Front Page Africa October 09, 2017 16:41 UTC